Casa la Siesta: hotel of the week
Posted by Sarah on December 2nd, 2011This week, we’re in a mushy mood, and want a hotel with a love story. Casa la Siesta in Cadiz Province has more passion up its ruffled sleeve than a school of oyster-eating salsa dancers: the owners met at a local Spanish class, fell in love, bought a house, sold it and then built this one brick by brick.
Style Andalucian amour
Setting Vejer’s final frontier
Why this week? Smith members can take advantage of two boutique hotel offers: book a Christmas stay for 25% less than usual, or book the whole hotel for your festivities and get 50% off room rates.
Our favourite bits The Honeymoon Suite overlooks the rolling hills through the wall of glass doors, and is home to a crystal chandelier, a dressing table with an antique brush and mirror, a roll-top bath behind the bed and two enormous rain-head showers. Though there’s no restaurant, the owners lay on a table d’hôte five times a week. Amelia cooks up simple Spanish fare such as fish with caper salsa and secreto Ibérico (a hidden cut of marbled meat – fatty, but delicious). The set menu costs €35 excluding wine. The in-house pooch is pretty cute, too – pat him all you like, but don’t feed him. He’s on his own special diet.
Mr & Mrs Smith say ‘Casa La Siesta’s interior design feels like a spread from slick Spanish magazine, Casa Campo. An unpretentious mix of blonde woods, pretty reclaimed antiques, stone floors, sage shutters – it’s what us Brits call homely. Barely an hour after our arrival and Mrs Smith is plotting to take over the place for her birthday in September, convinced it’s perfect for a party.
After a deliciously deep sleep in expensive cotton sheets, we’re woken by the drum of a spring thunderstorm, crowing cockerels and the jangle of goat bells. A shard of dawn sunlight streams across the room. It’s time for breakfast…’
Read the full anonymous review of Casa la Siesta in Cadiz Province…
You say ‘This hotel is the most perfect place for utter relaxation. The casita has everything you could want for, and the hotel is there for anything more. Dinner at Califa in Vejer was beautifully more-ish.’ (Jo, Blacksmith, stayed on 27 May 2011)
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