Parador de Alarcón

We had a wonderful stay at the Parador Alarcon. The town itself is beautiful, with wonderful houses and amazing street art. The hotel is lovely-great service, good amenities and a bar and restaurant. So nice to have a bath to relax in rather than a shower, after a day exploring. Wonderful views from the Tower and magical with the mist around the watch tower early morning. Would definitely recommend.

Excellent hotel in a castle. Nice service and food. A great improvement to paradors since we stayed in them ,hopefully the rest are as good as this one .

Really excellent place to stay. The hotel itself is spectacular, rooms are excellent, and we particularly enjoyed the restaurant. Flavours at dinner were outstanding, breakfast was most enjoyable, staff very pleasant. We also recommend the walk down to the river bank and around the village - steep in parts but well worthwhile.

A hidden gem not far from the motorway, an amazing place for a relaxing overnight stop. (After a frantic week in Madrid) 🤩

The hotel is located in an ancient castle and is very picturesque but sadly lacking in amenities. The room was minute; so small that it could barely accommodate a double bed, with no room for any chairs. This lack of sitting room was exacerbated by the fact that there is no lounge or other communal sitting place where one can sit and read. There are outside tables in the courtyard but these form part of the bar/cafeteria. The staff are very helpful and obliging and the food is excellent.

This impressive building is well worth visiting for the history alone. |The views from the rooms are minimal but from the ramparts they are breathtaking. |The staff are friendly and helpful, especially the receptionist and the waitress at dinner. |However, the accommodation itself is pretty basic and the mattress was hard as nails! Not a good nights sleep. |The cleanliness was not up to the standard we would usually expect from a parador (we have stayed in many). Dirty lift, Coffee splashed up the wall in our room, dust all around the bed. It can’t be easy to keep a castle clean but I’m sure I could do better. |The food in the restaurant was also below parador standard in my opinion. The hot pate/mash & cod tapas were just unappetising. The roast lamb would have been delicious but for the bland, tasteless gravy it was covered in. |Maybe we just chose badly 🤷🏻‍♀️. The service was good though considering the lovely waitress was rushed off her feet. |Until the above points are addressed we would not stay again.

We visit this parador often and it is always a fantastic experience. The castle and it´s location are always impressive but we love the fact it´s a small Parador with around 14 rooms (more or less) and the staff always remember us. Fantastic restaurant which always serves a great meal.

Such an outstanding hotel. Fabulous views and food, lovely rooms, friendly staff. It's a very small town, with small town vibes. Highly recommend. Best of the 3 paradors we stayed in!

Really astonishing place. This is a historical castle in the middle of a shocking landscape of extraordinary beauty and dramatism. The castle is part of a tiny historical village, really well preserved. It is both a hotel and a restaurant. It is part of the publicly owned luxury network of Paradores. All of them in exceptional enclaves. The restaurant is really well attended, and has a menu of contemporary versions of Castilian cuisine very carefully developed. As a hotel is exceptional, all perfect, with a sense of austere refinement. And the price is not to be believed. If you are into refined quality, don't miss this.

Booked the tower suite and it was spectacular. The restaurant was exquisite. Breakfast was an over flowing cornacopia of tasty choices. The small village was pristine - clean, tidy, and full of history.

We booked our reservation for a superior room months in advance, only to be given a small room that smelled of sewage and faced the courtyard from one floor up. The smell was so bad that we checked into the Villa Alarcon next door - forfeiting the cost of two nights' stay. No other Parador has let us down like this.