Hotel-Bodega Finca de Los Arandinos

Firstly the good bits. The staff were very good and friendly, ensuring a very friendly welcome. Alexandra in particular was fabulous. However it was not great after that. We have stayed in three different wineries over the last few years and this was definitely nowhere near as good. Firstly, the whole place looks tired and quite scruffy.I know the design is meant to be different, but we stayed in a similar very modern but simple winery in Argentina. It was on another level. Facilities were very lacking, The two outside loungers (only two) were so uncomfortable as to make them useless. No outside swimming pool either which I would have thought more than desirable.There was a very bad damp smell in our room with mould in the bathroom. We were told this was probably because it had rained that afternoon. Come on !. We are from Ireland and know what post rain dampness smells like, this was definitely mouldy and damp. Dinner was a bit of a joke. We opted for the sharing T Bone steak, but did not realise that we also had to share one bowl of soup and one dessert, very kindly they gave us two spoons!. The food was good but the experience was not anything I have ever encountered elsewhere. On the plus side the wine was good and the location was also good for touring. However based on our experience we could not recommend to others.

Hotel was part of a bodega in middle of beautiful vineyard. Rooms was excellent with floor to ceiling view (very modern loo, washbasin and shower a bit too way out for us). Staff were excellent as was dinner and breakfast. We bought some Rioja wine to take home as a price one third of UK price.