Guest User
October 21, 2023
We’re coming to the end of a lovely stay at La Bobadilla, a really delightful hotel. (We tagged a couple of nights here onto the end of our Granada and Seville holiday, to relax in the countryside). The reception staff, breakfast servers, porters and housekeeping team are friendly and super helpful. Especially as we can’t speak Spanish! The team at La Finca were incredibly professional and warm. The hotel buildings are old Spanish style and really picturesque - we had no idea how new it was. The chapel and reception areas are stunning. Our room furniture/bathroom fixtures were quite dated but we didn’t care as we don’t spend any time in the room. The picture I saw online had much newer decor, so I imagine they’re in the midst of upgrades. Food: we really enjoyed the tasting menu at La Finca. It felt like theatre as much as dinner and made for an excellent evening. Breakfast was varied, delicious and served in a lovely space which, though it was huge, felt very relaxed. The grounds and views are beautiful and the hikes around the hills were great. (Note: the trail signs are not super clear. We went the wrong way a few times but honestly it was good to work off the breakfast). It was fun to meet some donkeys at the end of the trails. We didn’t use the pool as the weather was a little too cool in late October, but it looked stunning. Visitors may want to note - the tip system was confusing to us initially as we’re used to seeing an extra line for adding a tip at the end of food and drinks bills given to us to sign. On the first day we’d spent about 60 euros on some snacks and noticed a 6 euro item for ‘servicio de pan y aperitivo’ on the bill. There was no line or space left where you’d naturally add a tip so we assumed this item was the service charge, and signed off on it. Then that evening we had dinner at la finca and couldn’t find a line to add the tip, and no item that looked like a service charge. Went in confusion to reception to ask how to tip, and they told us we either need to write it down somewhere on the bill, or tip in cash using their envelopes. We duly tipped the la finca staff. I have a couple of minor (constructive I hope) criticisms, very easy to fix. On day 2 in the main restaurant we had lunch and some bread and olive oil was brought along to the table. We assumed this was free and left most of it as the bread was dry and poor quality. We were puzzled to see the 6 euro charge again on the bill, then finally worked it out: it was for the bread and oil. (Looked on the menu and this is oddly described as ‘bread and amuse bouche.’) But we hadn’t even received any bread on day 1. So that wasn’t great. Anyway, all this scrutiny of the bill led me to notice that they’d charged us 36 euros for a shrimp paella dish, when we’d actually had the 25 euro pork paella. We had to go back and query it. The staff fixed it and were friendly enough, but we had to stand around for quite a while waiting for them to return, and no apolo