Parador de Santo Estevo

One of the most beautiful Paradores we’ve been to. The birding is just stunning. The food wonderful and a great selection of local wines. We spent New Year’s Eve there. The dinner was fabulous and the party was so much fun. There were so many beautiful hiking routes and the spa was great. Best of all, the staff was extremely friendly and made our stay so memorable. We are definitely coming back!

Heck of a ride, the last bit tiny roads, with no idea how much further! Make sure you fill up with petrol as the village, Luintra is the only place for miles. On the Ourense road.|Beautiful building with the usual Parador touches, but you need a password to access the lifts. Make sure they explain that to you properly. It's because the place has hordes of visitors, all day.|Nice monk's room, modernised, but you may have to duck! Cafeteria is modern, the restaurant is spectacular. walk down.|I strolled around, but it is busy, book your meals early.|Dinner was ok/good. Bells silent until 10.00 overnight.

Very nice building- well renovated, comfortable rooms. To stay in such a place of history is a unique experience. My complaint is lack of connection to the religiosity of the monastery. My wife and I wanted to pray in the church in the morning but it was closed until 10am. There is no chapel, library, or other space for contemplation. I understand that the primary function is as a hotel (and this is a nice hotel!) but it is a shame that a former monastery would not also serve as place open to those wishing to start their day with prayer and reflection.

This was our first Parador stay and we were very impressed. The monastery building is beautiful, and the work to turn it into a hotel complements its architecture perfectly. The half board was a very good value.

So many highlights! Staff, restaurant, beautiful room, exceptional position of this wonderfully restored old monastery in the mountains.

This parador is one of the most stunning we have visited. Incredible location (if not easy to find!), beautiful public areas, and the usual very helpful staff. I can highly recommend it. But we did have a couple of issues that slightly disappointed us. Given we reserved a standard room I wasn't expecting one of the best views from our room, but we equally didn't expect to view a bunch of old scaffolding poles lying discarded right in front of our window. These should have been tidied away out of sight. Secondly there was a large birthday party event on the second night we were there. It was noisy, it meant that some of the public areas had been closed off to the rest of us during the day, and it didn't really fit in with the atmosphere of the place, which was more one of quiet contemplation, as should befit an ex-monastery. This is not the first time recently that a parador experience has been slightly tarnished by external parties. Paradores needs to decide on it's corporate identity, is it about a unique experience, or is it purely about making as much money as possible?

What an amazing experience staying in such an incredible and beautiful piece of History. The location and the restoration of the building is just spectacular. Highly recommend the restaurant the breakfast, the bar.... every aspect of this hotel is incredible. And each and every person working at this hotel Coke above and beyond to make your stay incredible. The front desk in particular helped us with a future reservation that was messed up and they completely straightened it out and just did such a professional job at it. This is an incredible property and with some beautiful hiking trails. Highly recommend staying here. If you are staying at the hotel. Also, there's a small shop right where you turn to go up to the hotel that sells local artists products and it's a definite stop as well.

This Parador needs updating and a good cleaning...especially the flooring. We stayed for 3 nights and should have checked out after the first night. The service in the restaurant and cafeteria/breakfast was very disappointing...unfriendly and not attentive.