Parador de Limpias

Spent two nights here as part of a tour with Newmarket holidays. Absolutely stunning setting, great food, huge rooms and comfortable beds. Lots of history in the hotel too. Highly recommended. Dinner and breakfast were generous servings and delicious. Breakfast especially had lots of choice for vegetarian guests.

We had a lovely meal here, which lived up to expectations. It was our first visit to a Parador, and I was surprised at how modern the whole place was; we'd expected a renovated, modernised palacio, not a complete rebuild. That aside, I'd recommend the food heartily. We had hake and monkfish, followed by a stunning cheesecake and the local speciality of Soboa, a type of sponge cake. We drank (very) local wine which was pleasant. The service was charming and very patient with my patchy Spanish. Before or after eating, it's worth a walk along the tidal river, the Ason, which is part of the local wildlife reserve.

This is a lovely solid old fashioned Spanish hotel - the staff are all super polite and many speak English which really helped us out. It’s calm and cool and set in lovely hillside grounds. There’s a problem with noise in the rooms on first floor above the restaurant. You can hear scraping chairs on the tiled floor constantly… early morning snd late at night. Do not accept a room on floor 1. They kindly moved us to the 3rd floor after a few nights of our 6 night visit. The breakfasts were excellent- great coffee and other drinks, and a huge display of fresh and top quality buffet foods and foods cooked to order. The food at breakfast was best we have ever had in a Spanish hotel. Utterly amazing. and plentiful. We paid 10E to park at the hotel outside because the lower parking area seems a long walk away. The swimming pool Is also located down the hill - seems very non-attached to the actual parador building. We didn’t use it at all. There is air conditioning in the lovely large bedrooms- really spacious but still noisy above and to the sides with tiled floors everywhere. Super clean everyday and great quality bedding and towels. I’d very much like to visit again. Limpias is very small town- nothing much here at all. We had visited for the eclipse in northern Spain coast.

Easy distance from Santander ferry port. Parking depends on booking and is advised if you have mobility issues. But there's also free parking on site lower down by the swimming pool. Our room overlooked the lovely gardens. Evening meal good but usual paradore issues for vegetarians trying to find a dish that doesn't include meat or fish. Now one issue in that the fire alarm went off briefly twice at 3am due to 'a fault in the system' so if that happens again it really needs to be sorted out. Otherwise a good stay.

A very well built and magnificent building although the outside and gardens were nowhere near as well maintained as the interior. OK if you are impressed by such things, but in a pretty boring location so I'm glad we only booked one night and there is nothing to tempt me back.

Room was excellent, breakfast was very good, staff are really friendly and the location was good. Overal a very nice hotel

The Parador de Limpias is in a lovely old building with modern ‘wings’ added - we were not too sure if the modern architecture matched the historic original architecture - however, everyone has their own taste in architecture. The Parador is ideally located for the short drive back to the Santander Ferry Terminal. Our room was lovely (but no tea/coffee making equipment) and the staff were charming. There are two choices for parking - free parking in the hotel grounds a few minutes walk from the building, or right next to the hotel for a few euros a day. Do not be misled by out of date reviews on other websites - the hotel indoor pool closed three years ago! The outdoor pool looked delightful but…. it was closed, as Parador swimming pools only open on 1 June. The town is only a five minute walk away - but not much to see. We were surprised to hear very loud engine revving on the Saturday evening - we wandered into town to find that it was the prelude to the annual Limpias Road Rally - tannoys were announcing the cars and their drivers who were preparing for the next day’s rally. I had forgotten how loud rally car engines are! We made a swift retreat back to the relative tranquillity of the Parador and were then serenaded all day, next day, with the sound of cars racing around the local roads. If you like road rallies, then it will be worth visiting next year. If you like peace and tranquility then I would recommend checking the websites to definitely avoid those dates!!