Los Balcones De Zafra

Great atmosphere hotel in the main square. The building is authentic, rooms great, service good. Breakfast extensive, price more than reasonable. Bikes could be parked in a separate location in the hotel.

Thank God we only slept there one night, end of July. The hotel is located right on the main square, an old palace, beautiful but the rooms are outdated. Me and my family had booked 3 rooms. We arrived in the afternoon and there were 38 degrees Celsius outside. We got the keys and only after giving our passports, receiving from him nice historic information about the house and Zafra, and getting into our rooms, he then just happened to mention that air conditioning was NOT working. He talked like if it would have just broken and therefore he would bring us some fans for each room. I really regret we didn't leave the hotel at that very moment. It was very hot, all of us had a bad sleep and had a bad feeling since he should have mentioned it upfront! The worst is that I've read a review and 2 weeks later it still didn't work! I'm afraid that the hotel just doesn't have A/C and it looked like it wouldn't have heating since I saw on the flow some electric heaters. The worst of all is that opening the windows was not option due to the noise outside until at least 3:00 a.m.The rooms are big but outdated. A couple of lights were hanging out in the bathroom. The TV was far too small for the size of the room. The bathroom was not properly clean.The breakfast was poor. No fresh juice was offered. The breakfast room was dark. The offer for breakfast was just toasted bread, which was tasty but everything to put on top was coming from small cans, nothing fresh (from tomato, to liver spread, ham cream, cheese), low quality. Despite the cheap price I think it's better to find another place, I definitely can't recommend this hotel. I haven't rated it as terrible because the building itself is beautiful.

This hotel is situated right on the main square which is lovely and convenient, but parking for us was a problem - there was some festival going on so we had to park about 5 minutes away, which was OK, but we had a car full of stuff so weren't that happy leaving it on the street out of view. The owner was very helpful, although we did have to knock on the door to get in every time. He gave us a brief history lesson and had some strong views about Brexit! Our rooms were on the top floor with a lovely terrace with views over the square, however, it does get very noisy at night so if you had a room on a lower floor you may have been kept awake. There seemed to be a lot of lights which did not work in our room and bathroom, but they were both clean. We had a meal in the restaurant next door which was a little disappointing.