Valbusenda Hotel Bodega & Spa

Our second visit to this wonderful hotel and Bodega. We think we were the only guests in the hotel but we were treated to the whole experience just as if the place had been full. The pools and spa were fabulous as before. The food outstanding, the breakfast was the best we have had for its quality and quantity any where in Spain that we have visited. The underground car park was very useful. Our room and bathroom were clean and very comfortable though we did notice it is now a little tired run the edges. The sense of peace and calm made up for this though. Not the cheapest hotel we have stayed in Spain, but for us it was well worth it. If you want a bit of glamour and comfort and are going in the direction of Toro it is well worth a stop over there.

Beautiful vineyard hotel. Amazing views across the vines and the plains beyond. Great off road track for cycling into Toro. Excellent restaurant and of course beautiful vino tinto de toro. Excellent breakfast too. Lovely buffet and a great eggs menu to choose from.

Lovely hotel amidst the vines offering wine tasting on site and an elegant well equiped spa. Views from the room and the bathtub were spectacular. We had a lovely lunch and and the food was of a high standard. At breakfast our eggs And to top it all off, the staff were friendly and made us feel very welcome.

What a wonderful location in the middle of one of Spains finest wine producing areas. Short drive to Toro and Zamora, Salamanca a bit further. We found it very difficult to find something to complain about, in fact nothing negative to report. Great attentive service from all staff, very well appointed clean rooms, very quiet rooms with stunning views into the Vega de Toro. Lovely swimming pool which was most welcome on a hot summers afternoon. We will be definitely back and will plan some vacation time in the surrounding area with this gem of a hotel as a base.

I spent a few nights at this hotel on a recent trip to Spain and while the hotel itself is quite nice and my room was lovely, service was average and dining options too limited.||||One thing to note is that if Spanish is an issue for you, no one at the hotel except one lady at reception spoke English. For example, it's possible to visit the adjacent winery for a small fee but only in Spanish. I did opt to do the visit but I wouldn't recommend it to be honest, the facilities are oddly designed and from the looks of this seemed to hace been designed in the 80s and not updated since, The wine itself was entry level Toro wine but there was much better places to visit in the area.||||Finally the hotel itself was completely dead when i stayed with maybe one other room occupied but it lacked ambiance or things to do as there are no bars and it's in a very secluded area. Maybe it's different in the high season but I don't think i'll come back to find out...

As other reviewers have commented, Valbusenda is a little off the beaten path, which suited us just fine; peaceful, serene, and great views. Most of our other hotels were in older restored historic buildings, so the contemporary architecture was a nice change of pace. Service was really first class; as soon as we checked in we were escorted to a nice sitting area and offered a welcome drink and we chose the Valbusenda rosado since it was fairly warm outside.||||We had booked a "deluxe" room which split the difference between a standard room and a suite. And it was truly deluxe; spacious, with floor-to-ceiling windows, high quality linens, Bulgari toiletries, a complimentary bottle of wine, fresh fruit, and the list goes on. The bathroom was ultra chic, with waterfall faucets in the wide sink and bathtub, and a very interesting walk-in shower; the rain shower was nearly as wide as the ceiling. As such it wasn't that powerful. but all you had to do was switch to the shower wand which was very powerful. The toilet had a soft-closing lid, the only one we encountered during our trip.||||Food was very good. We ate a late lunch there, so we skipped dinner. As best we could determine, we were the only guests there, so the included breakfast was a la carte, with eggs cooked to order, a large bowl of fruit, fresh-baked goods, and great coffee and juices. Whew!||||Trivia: In the room there was a small Spanish paperback book on the nightstand about the 1476 Battle of Toro. Given the relatively close proximity of Valbusenda to Toro, I assumed there had to be a link, especially when you look down onto a broad valley below the bodega hotel. And sure enough, on the way out we spotted a small monument commemorating the battle alongside the entry drive that we didn't see driving in the day before. ||||Bottom line: This is a fantastic hotel and should be on your itinerary if you are visiting this part of Castilla y Leon.

So I am sorry to say this, but this is not a five star hotel. Our room was nice and the hotel is ok, but that’s about it. The shower in our room was screaming hot and not really adjustable and the water pressure is changing every view seconds. But that wasn’t the biggest issue for us here. You need to speak Spanish if you want to have a comfortable stay here. The lady behind the reception desk was very friendly but is basically the only one that can speak English, the rest of the staff doesn’t and isn’t really giving the impression that they want to give it a try. The staff in the restaurant is not in for a little conversation in English and that made a us really uncomfortable. Like you are just being difficult. I am sure they are all really nice people, they just didn't make us feel like we were really welcome. We tried to use the translate app but they just couldn’t be bothered. The food looks amazing on the hotel pictures, but is pretty basic. And breakfast hasn’t got much choices to offer. No cereals for example or English breakfast and overall a really limited choice. They do offer you an egg menu though. We choose the poached egg on a blini with bacon and hollandaise sauce. What we got was a crepe and an omelette with a hard boiled egg (boiled without the skin in a plastic bag) with a dot of hard yellow stuff and it was all cold. Big disappointment to be honest. We also had dinner in the restaurant, food was ok, but nothing special. On the last night we both ordered the same hamburger in the hotelbar (without a bar). One came with cheese and bacon, the other without! We didn’t bother trying to explain that to the staff. The swimming pool outside has enough beds and you can pick up your towel at the reception of the spa. They do offer drinks at the swimming pool but no snacks unfortunately. It wasn’t all bad; A big bonus was the kind man at the checkout early in the morning. And they made us a takeaway breakfast because we left so early even though the normally don’t do that. Like I said; staff at reception was kind and helpful but there is a lot of room for improvement

We were part of a classic car tour of Spain and Portugal and we stayed here for two nights on our way back to Bilboa. The hotel is in the middle of nowhere which means the location is not ideal. However, both Zamora and Toro are close by. On arrival we were shown how to get into the large underground carpark whose entrance is difficult to find. Our room was very nice but didn't have the best of views which were excellent on the other side of the hotel. The bathroom was ultra modern and quite impractical the waterfall taps and shower succeeded in soaking us and the bathroom. Not being able to fill the sink to shave meant a significant waste of water. The addition of a kettle to make tea and coffee was a plus as was the complimentary bottle of rose wine and assorted cakes and fruit. Dinner on the first night was good with wine to accompany the meal. Dinner on the second night was a disaster with chewy octopus and undercooked cod. Breakfast was very good with hot food freshly cooked. There was an excellent outdoor swimming pool that we used. We were also given a tour of the Bodega and a wine tasting which was a nice touch. Overall, this could have been excellent of it was not for the stupidly designed bathroom and awful dinner on our second night.