I preferred the ceiling fan rather than a noisy Air Conditioner.

although no air conditioning we didn't need it as the evenings were cool.

A/C was not on or maybe not available so it was hot,

The location right next to a stable can be problematic if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction: flies, smell.

The rooms are somewhat small and there is no air conditioning which I was worried about

Lack of air conditioning was a factor as we were there on a very hot day.

The only downside was there is no air-conditioning, although there is a large ceiling fan,

Only downside was it was very hot when we stayed and there is no aircon so we opened the window.

We were initially concerned there is no Air conditioning in this place, since we visited in late July.

The only minus was the lack of air con., as our visit was in July.

The only negative was the room did not have air conditioning and the day and evening were fairly warm.

I'll start with my only complaint--there is no air conditioning so our first night was a bit uncomfortable

But our room had no air-conditioning, which may be a problem in August.

The breakfast was an absolute treat of fresh fruit, assorted cheeses, breads, coffee, juice, omelets, pastry.

The breakfast in the garden was lovely and we enjoyed use of the honour bar in the evening.

The breakfast was lovely and the service exceptional.

Breakfast in the garden was lovely with fresh fruit, bread, cold meats and cheese plus home style jams and little pastries.

Beautiful style, calm, lovely area to relax in, beautiful hospitality, wonderful breakfast, great pool.

but only took 10 minutes with wonderful views en route
Breakfast was simple but delicious, and we loved sitting in the garden and by the pool 
At night, we loved the peace and tranquility of the garden,  whilst enjoying a glass of local wines from the honesty bar
The free parking was a plus and would definitely recommend anyone visiting Ronda to stay here

Great breakfast, served by Gustav and his team.

The public areas and the breakfast feel like they belong to a far more expensive hotel - this is a good place to stay if you're on a longish stay and want to spend lots of time lazing around a pool.

A good breakfast was served in the pretty main room, or outside in the charming garden.

but well prepared breakfast included in the cost of the room.

Breakfasts were big and delicious, served in the big, sunny main room of the hotel.

The breakfast is incredible and we wish we’d stayed here longer.

The breakfasts were intimate with amazing dishes, in copious amounts, and very attentively served.

Breakfast is in the garden weather permitting good enough

The breakfast is great, with fresh fruits and juice.

Service and Breakfast were of the very best intend and good.

Breakfast was excellent, with a good variety of breads with cheese and cold meat plus fruit and muffins.

Christian was so welcoming, the pdf they sent ahead of time had so many good recommendations for seeing Ronda, the building itself was so beautiful, the rooms were quiet and comfortable, and the breakfast was amazing!

The free breakfast is wonderful and served on a lovely garden terrace.

The room was clean and overlooked the swimming pool and gardens of flowers and pomegranate trees.

Lovely gardens, terrace and pool area, perfect to relax in.

The hotel has a lovely pool  and gardens decorated with cobalt-blue pots and orange trees, with a wide vista of the adjacent countryside and distant - and, while I was there, snowcapped - mountains.

Characterful building set in gardens with a pool (

There is an attractive garden outside, with a small swimming pool, which is closed in February

Breakfast in the beautiful garden in October is a treat beyond measure .

Absolutly stunning building, beautifully maintained garden.

We loved this hotel - it was beautiful, particularly the gardens and pool, and the staff could not have been more helpful.

The balcony and gardens must be beautiful in spring

The entire decor of the hotel is top notch and we loved the outside garden and common area inside to hang out at night.

There's a beautiful garden and small pool outside and the common living room area was the perfect place to unwind in the evening.

The lobby and outdoor garden can take all the stress away from a long trip.

We enjoyed the fresh fruit and breads at breakfast and the gardens were peaceful and pleasant.

The garden can be enjoyed as well as a large indoor relaxation area.

The decor was rustic and  pleasant and the back patio and grounds were peaceful and lush.

It is a wonderful place to stay and chill out - lovely pool and really relaxing atmosphere.

We thought it was amazing value for money and would highly recommend to anyone who wants a beautiful and peaceful base from which to explore Ronda.

The property is well managed, peaceful and quiet.

Peaceful atmosphere within the hotel created by helpful staff.

The hotel has lovely views of the countryside and horse stables next door, peaceful and quiet and yet within walking distance to the very popular and crowded parts of the old and new town (we were there during the last weekend in September and the whole place was packed, especially around the breathtaking "new bridge").

The hotel is in a peaceful and serene setting, yet a 5 minute walk to the old town.

What a beautiful hotel, absolutely gorgeous inside, with lovely and peaceful surroundings.

The hotel gardens are so pretty and peaceful.

We stayed for two nights and had the most wonderful relaxing stay.

Although there were other guests at this hotel, everything was tranquil and quite and it seemed we were alone on our honeymoon.

but this is why this hotel is nice and peaceful
horse riding stables out back, breakfast was over the top.

but we knew it and preferred to be away from city noise
It's very peaceful with free parking and breakfast included.

Peaceful, comfortable, rural with a well stocked bar to help yourself to.

The breakfast is bad and our shower was so small that you can barely fit in.

My room, the cheapest, was fine, a bit cramped and with a tiny shower,

Breakfast is amazing and the only thing that let it down was the ensuite shower which was a little too small for comfort.

Only gripe would be the very small bathroom.

Our room was small and the bathroom was teeny tiny,

But the bathroom was very tiny and simple.

The shower is small and difficult to use without flooding the floor.

As you would expect from an older property in Europe, the rooms and bathroom are small.

The only thing to take into consideration is that the rooms and especially our bathroom are very small.

the room was small and has a smell even I opened all the windows to try to let the smell vent.

The rooms are very different in character, depending on the space the old building 
had to offer.The bathrooms are in some rooms to small, the shower too narrow.

On the downside, the room was on the small side and plain, and had neither a safe or refrigerator.

Room was very small & no gluten free or hot breakfast options.

As it is down a hill (beside the Arab baths), it is very quiet - which we appreciated as there was a festival on in the old town that would have been quiet noisy.

We had a car so were happy it had parking and was just on the edge of the old town

The hotel was quaint, relaxed and so quiet, especially as we were there for the Feria, so the town was super busy!

Yes there is a walk up the steps to get to the old town,

Stay up in the new town, you’ll have a much better visit to Ronda.

We loved the location, just outside the city walls with steps up to either the old or new town.

The route they recommended into town (through the Phillip V gate) is particularly spectacular

And final note - Ronda is one of the prettiest towns I've ever seen. :)

The walk up to the old town is very picturesque and they will always call you a taxi.

The hotel is situated at the bottom of a flight of stairs which lead up to the d town.

but we loved it's quiet location and found walking up to the town really cool.

It is situated just outside Ronda and we were able to walk up to the town in 10 minutes.

We did not mind this being that we wanted not to stay in the center of town.

We wanted to stay outside of town as we were in between stops in Granada and Seville and wanted a little breather from the city life for a night.

We were able to park our car right outside and while it's a steep walk into town, it's very scenic and just takes a few minutes.

Picturesque, wide and easy to walk, well lit stairs from hotel to old town.

This hotel is an excellent choice for those arriving in Ronda by car since hotels in the center of the old town generally have no convenient parking

Located right at the bottom of old town Ronda, Spain, it's near all the major attractions and yet hidden away from the hustle and bustle of the main street.

Hotel Alavera de los Banos

small room

small bathroom

garden

town

relaxing

but on this occasion they did (almost unheard of in Ronda) and there was no way of heating the room.

Our only complaint was that the room never cooled down which made it hard to sleep at night.

Room 103 faces the outside walkway, and the HVAC did not even work!

In our duplex the narrow staircase has a 90 deg turn with a landing near the top and a 180 fan configured turn about halfway up with four or five narrow triangular steps.

Bedside lights had 'coldwhite' LED lamps instead of 'warmwhite' and we coulddn't get the aircon to work even with the use of the bedside fan switch.

Reason: door opener was not properly fixed (could harm your hand) hotel room was noise; sounds from other rooms, (night fights and repairing), airconditioning didn’t work proper way.

Our only slight problem was not mastering the air-con so we had quite a warm night,

As we turned on the A/C, a terrible smell filled the room: smoke, soon to be replaced by kitchen smells.

However most upsetting was the fact that we could not sleep at night as air conditioning did not work and room was very hot and humid.

but the water was downright freezing in early June.

My only complaint was that the heating/air conditioning didn't work at all: the information folder said that instructions were on the wall,

The annoying: the air-conditioning is apparently one of those central control systems where it either heats or cools

but sadly it was far too hot the heating we couldn’t appear to turn off was on all night long so we slept with the French doors open all night .

The parador could save a lot in heating costs.

In addition the extractor fan in the bathroom didn’t work and the shower was so loose that it almost came away from its holding on the wall.

.. 4am after tossing and turning I heard water dripping and then pouring from the ceiling in the bedroom by the air con unit !!!!!

Ventilation in our part of the hotel insufficient with constant foodsmell from the kitchen in the aisle.

although the unit in the bedroom would not turn off!

Excellent breakfast buffet with many interesting regional delicacies to explore.

Also the restaurant provided very good food at dinner and the breakfast was excellent.

We had booked breakfast and the buffet was probably the most comprehensive of the three Paradors we stayed in - a great start to the say which sustained us until the evening.

Breakfast was plentiful - buffet and hot dishes by order.

Breakfast the next day — we had to reserve a time when we checked in — was a good continental spread.

Fantastic location and wonderful room with spectacular views and lots of natural light
Room was very comfortable and good to have small terrace 
Breakfast options were great - good hot and cold choices
Good underground parking

Dinner on both nights was delicious, with a perfect view of the sunset behind the bandstand and spectacular countryside too.

Breakfast was good and so was dinner at their restaurant.

The breakfast was amazing - coffee pod machine to help yourself if you didn’t want their coffee - great selection and as a Coelaic an amazing gluten free selection, too!

also the staff at the breakfast remembered us from the prior day and had our coffee and tea orders at our table.

Parking below hotel was easy and  breakfast was delicious.

Reception asked us to pick a time for breakfast,

Breakfast was a great source of entertainment.

The choice of food at breakfast was very good with staggered times.

While I understand the energy conservation goal - we struggled to sleep in a very expensive room we couldn’t get below 23.5 Celsius without the noise and light of open windows.

Instead, we had to drive the car to a lot quite a distance (long walk) away and pay separately for parking.

We didn't eat in the restaurant - I'd eaten there before during a day trip a few years ago, and it was expensive for what it was.

but a bit expensive (18e for 2 coffees and 2 cakes).

Food and beverage little bit more expensive,

Given that we paid 2.5 times more for the Parador (about 200 euros), I expected more in the above areas.

She paid the bill for our group and left a 10% tip.

But it costs, little choice of alternative parking.

pay the little bit extra to be upgraded to a Superior Room.

but we had paid £160 for a room with a view and wanted to enjoy it with a bottle of red that didn't cost 28euros.

While tourists dander past you get to drink in the visit while eating and drinking and you get to people watch too - I’d say it’s the top tip of Ronda ( apart from knowing that you can pay 2 euro into the house of John Bosco known as Juan Bosco on the opposite side of the ravine where there are no tourists and get amazing views back over to their other side and towards the bridge!

Not only was the hotel car park expensive ( Euro 18 for a night ), it was nerve wrecking getting in!

Rooms with views are limited, expect to pay a high premium to have a view.

.their breakfast are just normal not so excellent, if I should compare with it´s price, when we were there, they only had one waiter to attend many guest and believe me he´s not that friendly !, so.

Please also note that the prices charged may not be the same price as in the menu.

Location 10
Room views 10
Cleanliness 10 
Staff 10
Checking was quick and easy, my husband was a good driver as the underground car park is a bit tight

This paradore is in a spectacular location and we had an excellent room overlooking the gorge.

We upgraded our rooms to ones 'with a view', and what a fantastic view over the countryside, with mountains in the distance.

We had a blocked (by a large tree) pool view room and no view of the gorge or the bridge

but our memories of Parador in Ronda will be of that view from our room.

Still loved our stay overall because of that brilliant room and view and the hotel's location/airy lounge area,

We admired the view from our room which was amazing and headed off to explore Ronda.

Had a beautiful room overlooking the bridge on the second floor

Our room overlooked the pool, was large and clean.

The view from our room was breathtaking, the pool area is great.

Just be aware we were in room 203 which was a duplex room overlooking bandstand and main viewing point, to the west of the hotel which every day a busker,( harpist or accordion) played from around 10ish to early evening, so if you intend to relax on the terrace all day you will hear this ALL day.

Great room and service,
Try and get one of the double aspect rooms overlooking the bridge and the plains/mountains.

but the view from our room was breathtaking.

The Parador has rooms overlooking the gorge and mountains.

The breakfast had plenty of choice and of course the views from the rooms were amazing !

We just spent three days here, and our room had a view of the bridge and the gorge.

The location provided very nice views from our room,

Oh and just one more advice: an electric aroma dispenser does not fully mask the awful smell of a failing sewage system.

but there was an off putting smell of sewers and disinfectant.

This was noisy, ran continuously from 7am until after 10pm and regularly wafted us with smells of cooking food.

To make things worse, a very poor pool space, uncomfortable terrace and no place to smoke, even with a big open space available.

The first room we were given, we had to change due to a strong unpleasant smell that would not go away.

BUT some of the rooms are directly above a noisy crowded park full of vendors and smokers right below your window.

We had tried Paradores back in 2005 in the North of Spain and had been disappointed by that hotel chain already, partly for the "historical" amenities and for the smell of the rooms (but at the time, people could still smoke in some of them).

My only complaint with the room was that the tile around the tub was developing a serious mildew problem.

The pool was disgusting the bottom was full of dirt and also floating on the top !

Like the drains didn't with, and the shower control for the shower head only had cold water so you had to use the hand held attachment to the tub filler in order to get hot water.

First room we were shown to had been used by a smoker and was very smelly.

The room smelt strongly of cigarette smoke ether from a previous guest or an adjacent room, the receptionist showed very little interest in our complaint other to say "sorry for the inconvenience".

But, starting from arrival to stay: the garage smelled like a toilet (probably because someone used it as one), the lobby was dated and old, service that feels like it's dispensed by a "waiting to clock out" employee, dated and tattered rooms with signs of water damage everywhere, discovered ants upon arrival nipping away at a piece of chocolate under the desk chair (cleaning service?). They were very pleasant when I asked to change rooms because of ants,

BUT it's an old place, needs some refurbishment and air conditioning runs only in summer, what means, if you get a hot day during your stay will burn.

Only fault On this room is the bad sewer smell.

What we got was stale puff pastry with cold tomato soup & chopped egg on top.

If money has no smell that hotel get One And The people at The desk don't need your money to speak as they are speaking to us.

Despite its amazing position on the edge of the gorge, the outside bar terrace has a public walkway alongside, so it’s hardly a peaceful, relaxing place to unwind.

The reception gave us a card for complimentary drinks at the terrace overlooking the new bridge while we waited for the second room to be ready; what a nice gesture!

The bar has a terrace that is right next to the ravine and bridge.

We had a great stay here, we had a beautiful room with a proper cot in the room for our baby when we arrived - proper bedding for the cot (not a pop up travel cot) we had a terrace with amazing views!

It had a terrace with table and chairs with a nice view.

We had a lovely private terrace outside our room.

We were very fortunate to stay in a duplex room, with a terrace on both levels.

Loved staying there …loved sitting on terrace or round back sipping and watching people and the changing light…..  everything was in v good state.

We had drinks at the bar terrace overlooking the chasm, again, service was good.

The terrace should have been wonderful with great views,

We stayed in the duplex suite which was huge, with a balcony on the lower floor and a terrace on the upper floor.

Room 221 is a superior room with a HUGE terrace with table & chairs that overlook the bridge and gorge (which they light up at night).

We stayed in the duplex room and adored the large terrace overlooking the gorge.

The duplex rooms have wonderful terraces and views.

we had three nights here the hotel is stunning right next to the Gorge with underground  Garage parking our room was at the top which  is only 3 storeys and a lovely terrace over looking the Plaza.

Rooms are excellent and most have excellent terraces with balcony areas - perfect for sitting and watching the sun set.

I could have easily thrown a party on the terrace for me and all the neighboring rooms.

There was a huge terrace of the bedroom upstairs with wonderful views.

Upon arrival, we sat on the terrace outside the bar overlooking the gorge and enjoyed the wine with a selection of tapas.The breakfast was extensive with a huge selection of local items.

We absolutely loved our stay in this town we know well

Ronda is a fantastic town, not to be missed and I doubt if there is anywhere better to stay than at the Parador.

Its location overlooking El Tajo is convenient to both the old and new part of town.

I picked this hotel as we wanted somewhere east to park the car close to everything in the old town.

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