Hotel Caserío Aldeallana
Catwalk-ready casa
Finca trail
When a former employee of Spanish Vogue is the host, you can be sure you’re in for a stylish stay, and Hotel Caserío Aldeallana delivers on the fashion front. This hidden-away hacienda is an hour north of Madrid, with hundreds of acres, a courtyard and a chapel on the estate, along with a historic five-bedroom house, all dapperly dressed by one of the country’s most in-demand interior designers. Madrileños in the know can’t get enough – and now you can join Spain’s style set for refined rural weekends, too.
Facilities
Rooms
Five.
Checkout
Noon (but you can hang around the house until 2pm). Earliest check-in, 4pm – let the hotel know your ETA the day before.
More Details
Rates usually include breakfast. Two-night minimum stay.
Also
If you like what you smell, you can pick up the finca’s bespoke fragrance in the boutique, which also sells the bathroom tumblers everyone wants to take home, paintings and decorative tissues made by local artists, books by the hotel’s interior designer and souvenir soaps. And if you like what you’ve eaten, sign up for one of Lucia’s monthly cooking classes.
Free Internet Access
Laundry
Pet Friendly
Pool
On-Site Restaurant
At the Hotel
Free WiFi throughout, yoga classes, croquet, table football, rose garden, board games and books, boutique, bicycles to borrow. In rooms: kettle and Nespresso coffee machine, mineral water and vegan bath products.
Our Favourite Rooms
Based solely on its grand wooden dressing-table-style bathroom sink, room 4 trumps most other vanities; we’re also fans of the pattern-clash triumph of its bed, which pairs tartan and florals. Rooms 1 and 5 have twin beds.
Poolside
The birdsong-soundtracked pool is a few minutes’ walk from the house in the garden, with spectacular surrounding-countryside views, hammocks, a sitting area in the (beer-, wine- and ice-stocked) poolhouse and a vine-shaded area for siestas. It’s open from 11am until 8.30pm during the summer.
Spa
There’s no spa, but treatments can take place by the fireplace in the poolhouse during the winter and in assorted amazing spots throughout the estate in the summer.
Packing Tips
One of the daughters may have once been Vogue staff but she’s fully converted to the good life: wax jackets and riding boots are welcome. Madrid may be hot and hectic, but out here it gets cold in the evenings, even in high summer.
Also
The historic house has not been adapted for wheelchair access.
Children
For exclusive-use bookings of the full finca, children are welcome.
Gallery
Food & Drink
Top Table
Out on the (most likely) sunny courtyard for breakfast; stake out the red velvet armchair with your book; or shuffle up to the card table.
Dress Code
Country life – but make it fashion.
Hotel Restaurant
Paella parties with fairy lights in the trees and whole roasted lamb are the kind of home-cooking events you can expect during the summer, all created by the daughter Lucia, who is the seasonal main chef. At weekends in the warmer months, gazpacho made with ingredients from the garden, two different salads, pies and anchovy toast form the lively family lunches. For dinner, it’s more homegrown salad and soup, meat from about two minutes away and biodynamic wines. The menu is adapted around what guests want, just to make you really feel at home. In winter, guests can either go out for meals at restaurants recommended by the hosts, or request one of the picnic hampers to enjoy in the grounds. Breakfast ingredients are also sourced from either within the farm or negative kilometres, with vegan and gluten-free options available, too – a buffet is laid out in the lounge and guests either eat in the dining room or at tables in the courtyard.
Hotel Bar
There’s an honesty bar that guests can access at any time – and the poolhouse is stocked with ice, wine and beer.
Last Orders
Breakfast is served between 9am and 11am daily. Mealtimes vary depending on how many guests are staying, but in the summer lunch is usually 1.30pm to 3pm and dinner between 8.30pm and 10pm.
Planes
Land at Madrid-Barajas Airport and the drive north to the hotel should take around an hour. It’s also possible to board a train at this airport bound for Segovia – there are regular direct, 27-minute services.
Trains
Segovia-Guiomar station is within a 20-minute drive of the house – trains from Madrid run every half an hour (journey time: 22 minutes). Taxis are available to take you onwards to the hotel, or you can arrange a hotel transfer for €100.
Automobiles
It’s easy to get to and from Segovia by train, but a car will come in handy for exploring this rural part of Spain – the estate has a free car park hidden away in the grounds (so as not to be unsightly).
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
There are 740 acres to explore, starring: thousand-year-old oaks, a rose garden, running and walking trails, and animal residents including wild boar, horses and deer. The family can take you on Land Rover tours to meet the doe-eyed neighbours and arrange picnics in the middle of the estate (hampers are helpfully lined up under the stairs) or sunset drives with a magically appearing drinks table. They’ll also be able to guide you to a local whisky distillery, nearby markets and golf courses, and a glass factory – and dispatch their trusty guide to come along with you. Museum-packed Segovia has a Gothic cathedral, Roman aqueduct and mediaeval walls. For regal residences, head to the town of San Ildefonso, home to two palaces: Riofrío and La Granja.
Earn or Redeem Points with World of Hyatt
This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .
