Palacio De La Rambla

Have just spent 2 nights in this wonderful hotel and we loved it. The architecture is amazing, the rooms spacious and furnished and decorated in sympathy with the age of this amazing palace. Scrupulously clean, lovely crisp bed linen and impressive amounts of hot water for such an old building. Hosts Rosa and Tony very friendly and helpful. Breakfast buffet was good with eggs cooked to order and served in a peaceful room off the pretty courtyard. Lots of quiet places to sit and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere inside and outside the building. Like stepping back in time to a more tranquil age! Ubeda is very pretty and crammed with Renaissance architecture. If you go, I highly recommend this hotel.

In fact, this is a very special place. ||The architecture is "dans le jus", the rooms spacious and furnished and decorated in old authentic style. So are the bathrooms. You like or not. My wife love it, me a little bit less. In fact the hotel is old, but not comfortable enough. I prefer the Paradores. The staff is friendly and helpful, but as there is only 7/8 rooms, the service is not at the level required by me! The Breakfast is good with eggs cooked to order and served in a little room. It is charming, like staying in ancient times... Too much for me! Also, there is no parking. You have to go to the public car park at 300m.

Our room was incredibly charming and quite clean, tastefully furnished with antiques. The manager, Rosa, was personable and welcoming, eager to provide recommendations and assist with whatever came up. The bathroom was luxuriously large with ample hot water. The atmosphere invited one to enjoy and relax in the slower pace of Ubeda; the courtyard is entrancing and the salon accordingly provided a cozy place to curl up with a book. The selection and service at breakfast topped those offered at hotels with a higher star-ranking.

This is a remarkable hotel with only eight rooms in a renaissance palace and very attentive staff. The beds are somewhat unyielding but the bathrooms are quite well equipped and function well. Breakfasts are a combination of buffet and cooked to order , providing a good start to the day. A good place to stay in an interesting town, but you will need to brush up your Spanish in many of the restaurants. Jaen province is dominated by olive oil production, which has destroyed the top soil in some parts, but offers interesting scenery and wildlife beyond the usual tourist locations.

Outside a picture of modern hustle and bustel. Enter the gates and it becomes a picture of tranquillity. ||We walked to the hotel after street parking our car as we knew that parking was within the hotel walls and only suitable for a small car. All true. The old stables. Tony quickly had the double doors open and our hired Hyundai I10 was soon manoeuvring around the internal columns. A larger car would magnify the difficulties of the car park size/layout; the underground public parking in the Plaza Andalucia is the nearest alternative.||Getting into the hotel courtyard we found that we had entered another world. The 16th century with mid-20th century styling.||We obviously got our visit arrival right as we were offered our choice of rooms; a lifetime first. Thanks Tony.||Our ground floor room was large as was the bathroom; same with the other room we were showed. Two singles the only downside so the good lady did not have her customary “hot water bottle” next to her. The beds we found firm to our liking. The lighting was subdued. ||We soon settled in to using the courtyard and lounge as a retreat from the modern world.||If you want modernity in a hotel this is not the place to rest your head.||Our activity programme in the local sierras and countryside precluded us availing ourselves of breakfast in the palacio other than our last morning. But when we got it, it was lovely. A small cold buffet which suited our needs with hot extras. Too often we find the buffet over done and wonder how the leftovers are disposed of.||We often ran in to Rosa, the manager, and can only say that she was far and away the nicest hotel manager we have ever dealt with. Nothing was too much trouble for her and Tony. It was all rather like a home away from home. ||After four nights it was all to soon to be on our way again but our stay reinforced our view that Ubeda is a place to return to rather than once seen never to return.

The Palace is charming and beautifully appointed. The staff is helpful, the room is large with extra chairs and a table and the bed is comfortable with good pillows and linens. A good breakfast is served with eggs cooked to order. The town of Ubeda is a wonderful place to stop. Highly recommended.

Very friendly & helpful staff. ||Lovely old hotel with a beautiful internal courtyard, room was quite large, very clean and peaceful, but a little old fashioned.||Onsite parking available on a first come, first served basis. A bit tight if you have a large car, but staff assist you in parking. Cost is €14 per day.||||Breakfast was included and good selection.||Wifi was slow and intermittent.

Staying here has left me with a wonderful memory. It was a very luxurious experience; the room, looking over the garden in the courtyard a delight and I enjoyed the upstairs museum very much. The breakfast was first class and the female member of staff was knowledgeable enough to realise that the El Tranco destination where I was heading was in such a remote place that I would not be able to get there without a car and organised the hotelier to meet me at a nearby town. I will always be grateful to her, but unfortunately cannot remember her name.