Sant Blai, Mallorca is a family-owned country retreat at Sant Blai which provides you with a tranquil oasis away from the madding crowd. Just 2km from Campos town, but enjoying total privacy and all modern comforts in authentic rustic cottages and suites. With large landscaped gardens within 25,000m2 of typical mallorquin farmland.

It can also be used as an ideal business base as it has a large communal lounge area that can double as a training/ meeting room, allowing guests to use the hotel as an idyllic retreat to base complete management teams for a week or more and complete intensive training courses. There are also added incentives of local diversions such as: horse riding; golf; the white sandy beaches at Es Trenc; mountain biking; mallorquin cuisine; or just relaxing by the pool; reading in the watermill library or observing the stars from our garden observatory under the clear night skies.

More details Sant Blai

Casa La Celada is set in the very heart of Andalucía, Casa La Celada is a beautifully situated Guest House, or “Casa Rural”, nestled at the foothills of the Sierra Subbética mountains, which are found only minutes from our front door. It is less than three kilometres from the dramatic and historic town of Iznájar, meaning “Happy Castle”, which quite literally teeters on top of an immense rocky crag that juts out into Andalucía´s largest lake, the Embalse de Iznájar. It’s location is so central within Andalucía itself that within ten minutes´you can drive out of the Province of Córdoba into the Province of either Málaga or Granada, making the location a wonderful base for exploring the inland treasures of Southern Spain.

More details and pictures of the rooms and the surrounding landscapes throughout the Casa La Celada site

The owners of both these establishments are personally known to me through Ecademy which is a social and business networking site that I would recommend to anybody interested in Spain.

Another hotel I have stayed in recently and I thought offered excellent value-for-money is the Hostal Marbella in Fuengirola on Calle Marbella – a quiet pedestrian street which leads from the main square. The word “hostal” in Spanish does not mean the same as “hostel” in English and their are no bunk-beds, curfews or dormitories here!! It is spotlessly clean with friendly, efficient staff and has everything a traveller might want – 24 hour reception, FREE wifi, breakfast room, A/C and TV. Although Hostal Marbella is only 100 meters from the beach the prices are probably 50% less than a sea-view ….and it’s much quieter!