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Quite, give me space and amenities over chintz any day, lol. Hoping our parador stays in October will have the former, as there are very few chain hotels on the route of our road trip.
Hope you are visiting the parador in Cuenca as you are going to Valencia – Cuenca is a rather beautiful perched village with a surprising number of churches and museums. The parador is in a beautiful old monastery and next to a rather unusual museum. It closed on New Year’s Day for refurbishment but they seemed to suggest it would reopen quite shortly.
There are plenty of boutique/non chain hotels that are non chintzy, cheaper and better than their boring chain cousins. In Spain, Room Mate, essentially hotels without all the fripperies one doesn’t need in a city is a great option and again beats a dreary chain on price and quality every day.
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