Gran Hotel Pelayo

Beautiful 4 star hotel from around 1900 with matching interior in the rooms. The location is breathtaking with mountains and the basilica dominating the scenery. Food in the regular restaurant is decent, though not special. But in the building you also have a second restauant (Cova Sacra) which well deserves a Guide Michelin star for a reasonable price. Best food in a long time!!! Unfortunately I have to make an amendment to my first impressions. Third day in a row that I had to park my car far away from the hotel (1 Km and more), as it is incredibly crowded during the season, and parking lots of the hotel and outside are sparse. Shy away from the location during summer...

The room was a good size and clean, the hotel is very grand if a little faded and past its best. Staff were helpful and nice but you got the feeling they had a low level of training. Its a very beautiful location...but very remote. The restaurant offered a reasonable fixed price menu. Parking was limited and poorly laid out, the staff, though very nice, appears a bit lost on how to run a hotel, for example us and another couple of guests were in the bar and it took ages for anyone to be around to take our order. The restaurant set up is a little strange too, if you have the cheaper menu you are in a different restaurant to the expensive one ... which feels kind of bizarre! Also, unless you are interested in the church, there is nothing to do, no choice of restaurants or bars...nothing! Hotel is a bit of a faded Grande Dame, but good for an overnight stop

Not worth it. The location is great, but …. First of all the staff doesn’t manage the parking situation at all. We paid 170 EUR per night and were forced to park our car elsewhere because visitors were leaving their cars on the hotel premises, and the staff didn’t seem to care, which is super disappointing. Another issue is that the hotel is unbelievably old and in desperate need of renovation. For such a high price, you cannot provide such terrible service and room quality.