Hotel Real Colegiata San Isidoro

Truly a beautiful place. If you want to live in old digs you will like it but do know this. The air conditioning they claim to have is worthless. As is most of it in all of Europe. I stay usually in US owned hotels only because they are the only ones that actually “get” air conditioning. We stayed two nights here in June and they were the hottest nights I have ever had in a hotel. We both sweat all night. Got zero sleep. The air conditioners they have are pitiful and a total waste. If you like sleeping in a sauna make your reservations here! If you like sleeping cool pass it up. The lowest the AC is allows to go here is 20.5 or about 70 degrees. But ours never made it past 22.5. EVER. No matter what. You might as well camp out. I would never stay here again

Room very warm, so asked at reception, who said air conditioner does not work at the hotel (May 2025). They just shrugged their shoulders as if a customer has to accept! Not good enough. Do bit recommend.

The rooms are tiny and the front desk staff speaks limited English. If it’s a religious or state holiday, the restaurant for breakfast will set holiday hours without telling guests. They won’t even allow anyone access to the coffee machines. The restaurant staff is rude. I’d choose a different hotel if I were to come back to León.

The hotel is rated 3 star. Can’t understand why. It’s the best 3 star I have ever stayed in and amazing value. Should be 4 star or even 5 star. The place is stunningly beautiful. It was originally part of the adjoining monastery. Our room was on the 2 nd floor with a view over the enormous patio (cloister). The room was beautifully minimalist. Great shower and nice bathroom. Breakfast was perfect with everything we wanted. Staff friendly and professional. Free parking in the centre of beautiful Leon.

Read the reviews on here and was worried what to expect, however it exceeeded our expacttions and is well worth short sty break. ||Parking alongsde is ideal if driving and easy to find , instructons spot on||Checkin great, really good English on reception thankfully, and walk to rooms was like an antique centre with beutifaul pieces everywhere harking back to its heritage as a convent. ||Its really close to main town as well, so 5 minute walk downhill and your at the cathedral and top of town. ||Didn't see a hotel bar as such, however its only a base. ||Rooms basic but good, although air con needs to crank up a bit. ||Now the best bit, we bookd one of their music dinners in the clositers, a sort of modern music type event (they do classics as we). lots of tables laid out, perfromer area all n the gardens, then a fantastic 5 coure meal and flowing wine made for a great night, all for about 60 euro each. Superb evening ||Breakfast was the only let down for us, really poor selection of food, not replenished , and had to clear our own table 3 mornings in a row as no staff anywhere. ||This is not a top end luxury hotel with super attentive service, its a quirky older hotel as a base for exploring and fantastic evening entertnment some nights.

The hotel has been converted from an old convent adjacent to the basilica and set around a courtyard with a fountain. It is an extremely attractive setting and one can park in the hotel’s adjacent area. However there I’m afraid the praise stops. At €212 per night b&b this is twice the average which we have paid for the last six hotels all of which had better equipped bedrooms. Our ‘superior’ double room was equipped with two paper mugs and no glasses. We asked for glasses at reception (correct but frosty) and were told that all rooms were like this as it was easier to clean! The bathroom had no shelves or storage. Bathrobes – forget it! No electric socket at the level of the desk. A single armchair when there was plenty of room for two. Breakfast adequate, but charmless staff. At €112 for b&b this would have been fine but at €212 the place is living off its location rather than hospitality.

This hotel was once a convent and is behind the Basillica in the old town. We booked a larger room which we found is in the renovated part of the hotel and furthest from the reception. When we checked in they said there was a dinner tonight in the courtyard accompanied by a singer, which we booked.||Our room was very large, spacious and looked very new. However no fridge, no tea or coffee facility and 1 small bottle of water (our booking did say 2 guests). After walking around this cute town we wanted a shower. No hot water. Rang reception and we understood had to wait 15 minutes. After running the water for close to 30 minutes still only cold water. Rang reception- no answer. So I had a cold shower and popped down to reception. They came to our room, ran the water for another 15 minutes and in Spanish said it takes 10-15 minutes for the hot water to get to the room. (Given we’d been running it much longer, not true). ||Had a very nice dinner with wine in the courtyard, thoroughly enjoyed it. However if you weren’t attending and had a courtyard facing room you would have been disturbed.||Next morning, instant hot water!

An unusual hotel in an old monastery with a lovely courtyard. However we were travelling by car and it’s near impossible to find with the maze of pedestrianised areas and one way streets. It took us an hour to find the hotel once we’d entered the city and even then we drove down a pedestrian street in sheer desperation (and with the blessing of passers-by who couldn’t suggest a better way to get there). Not a great start to our one night stay in Leon.