Seda Club Hotel
Silky smooth operator
Popular central plaza
Home to flamboyant flamenco and the ‘more is Moorish’ Alhambra, Granada wears its heart on an elaborately embellished sleeve. And Seda Club hotel has translated these glamorous traits and its lingering decadence as a 15th-century Silk Road stop (hence the hotel name, since ‘seda’ means ‘silk’) into a modern hideaway with intricate tiling, bronzed panels and bevelled lights, richly hued silks and velvets, and plentiful pattern. The ‘club’ part comes into play with its top-form service and speakeasy-style bar, but its trappings of a cathedral-view roof terrace, dinky private-hire spa and genteel afternoon teas offer luxury without ostentation.
Facilities
Chambres
21, including six suites.
Checkout
Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
Plus de détails
Rates usually include breakfast (or a generous buffet and hot à la carte choices). In winter, the ski themed package includes your Sierra Nevada lift pass, a welcome gift, cocktail at the bar, 15% discount on spa treatments and private hot tub access.
Also
The hotel has one room adapted for wheelchair users, plus a lift to all floors and fairly roomy public spaces.
Accès internet gratuit
Blanchisserie
Animaux acceptés
Restaurant sur place
Service d’étage
Spa
At the Hotel
Spa area, roof terrace, concierge, charged laundry service and free WiFi. In rooms: smart 50-inch TV, Marshall Bluetooth speaker, iPad with hotel services, hand-embroidered silk kimonos, fresh flowers, gourmet minibar, coffee- and tea-making kit, and L'Occitane en Provence bath products. Suites have a Technogym kit bag for in-room workouts, too.
Our Favourite Rooms
Seda Club has changed dramatically from the department store it once was, but you’ll still feel covetousness creeping in for the items in your room, because you’d quite like, say, that velvet cocktail chair, those Alhambra-style floor tiles, the strokeable Egyptian-cotton sheets, the hand-embroidered silk kimonos guests can waft about in… Grand Deluxes and Suites let you sit out in the sunshine and people-watch over the Plaza de la Trinidad and spy the cathedral, from your own private balcony; but, the Deluxe Patios have their own peaceful spot in the hotel’s interior orange-blossom- and jasmine-scented garden courtyard. And, if you’re staying for a while, La Alcoba Real feels like a penthouse apartment, with enough room for some passionate flamenco moves, and opulent green and gold decor.
Poolside
There’s a small Roman bath-inspired plunge pool in the spa, best for restorative bobbing about – especially because guests can have this to themselves (for free) for an hour during their stay (we advise booking in advance).
Spa
Tucked away behind the bar – perhaps fittingly so – is the spa area, which has one treatment room for massages, facials, scrubs, wraps, and algae-enriched 'Thalgo' and anti-ageing therapies, plus a plunge pool and a shower with gentle hydrotherapy jets.
Packing Tips
Become a chic chameleon by packing pieces in decadent materials, plus lots of shiny things to match the hotel’s sparkle. But, amid all this flouncery, add a pair of sensible shoes for hitting Granada’s ancient streets and elevated miradors.
Also
The hotel serves a genteel afternoon tea, with dainty sandwiches and savoury puffs, bite-size cakes and sweet pies (and champagne for a touch more frou-frou-ness).
Enfants
This draped-in-velvets-and-silks stay feels more grown-up, but suites do have a sofa-bed kids can sleep on and babysitting can be booked on request.
Galerie
Food & Drink
Top Table
Cast your gaze out over Plaza de la Trinidad to the cathedral and beyond with cocktails on the plant-dotted intricately tiled roof terrace and Sky Lounge.
Code vestimentaire
Follow the hotel’s flamboyant design cues: Alhambra-esque arabesques, flowing silks, tactile velvets, antique metallics and a profusion of pattern.
Hotel Restaurant
Seda Club is sandwiched between two elegant drinking and dining venues. At ground level, ideally placed for watching the comings and goings in the plaza, the restaurant is a bronzed glamourpuss, with shining panels of the stuff, plus coved ceilings, flattering lighting and plump velvet cocktail chairs and banquettes. It’s overseen by the Castro brothers (Rubén and Daniel), who glean their produce from local markets; you might have kombu-cured, smoked-scallop tartare with caviar from Riofrío village; Motril shrimp tiradito with yuzu vinaigrette and miso salt; confit cod on a bed of cuttlefish stew; or juicy pork rib meat. And stay for the sweets: mango French toast drizzled with white-chocolate ‘soup’, or apple mille-feuille layered with salted-butter caramel. For casual tapas (sheep’s cheese with tomato jam, duck with quince, partridge pâté, croquettes and more caviar) before a big night out, head up to the view-blessed roof terrace.
Hotel Bar
Pull up a plush velvety stool at the dazzling speakeasy-style vintage-style bar attached to the hotel’s restaurant. There are glittering wall panels, polished parquet and rows of bevelled lights that make the ceiling look like strings of oversized diamond necklaces. Or opt for somewhere a little more intimate and low-key in the library. The cocktail list is classic and a little cheeky, with the likes of Sex on the Beach, Dirty Martinis and the signature Club Silk Stockings, with rum, condensed milk, cinnamon and grenadine, with a cherry on top. Plus, there’s a cellar-ful of sherries, cavas and largely Spanish wines, including some rich Andalusian reds.
Last Orders
Breakfast is served from 8.30am to 10.30am, lunch from 1.30pm to 3.30pm, and dinner from 8.30pm to 10.30pm. Drinks are served from noon till midnight.
Room Service
You can dine around the clock in your room.
Planes
Named for the famous Andalusian writer, Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport is the closest hub to the hotel, a 30-minute drive away. On request, the staff at Seda Club can book transfers.
Trains
Granada’s main train station is just a 15-minute drive from the hotel. Part of the Renfe national-rail network, it’s very well connected, with direct links to Valencia, Seville, Madrid, Barcelona and more major cities throughout Spain. On request, a pick-up can be arranged from here. And for sipping around the city, there are several Metro stops within a 10-minute walk.
Automobiles
Typical of historic cities, Granada isn’t the easiest to navigate by car, with some narrow streets and restricted zones, so try two feet over four wheels where possible. But, if you have come with a car, there’s valet parking at the hotel for €30 a night and chargers for electric vehicles.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
One of the most placid parts of a dizzying city, Granada’s Plaza de la Trinidad is a perfect central base for Seda Club. A pretty, leafy square, where you can sit by a Baroque fountain and idle the afternoon away, it’s also an active hub, where religious processions (such as the eerily intriguing Santa Semana Easter celebrations) pass by. And you’re within walking distance of many major sights – a few steps away, the Renaissance cathedral feels like being cocooned in a Fabergé egg with its ornamental gilding, but it’s a mere appetiser for the visual gorging that awaits at the Alhambra, a 30-minute walk away. If its interiors inspire you to bring some Moorish colour and pattern into your life, close to Seda Club is the Alcaicería, a historic Arabic neighbourhood with winding narrow streets and a vibrant bazaar. After, take a head-clearing walk through the university’s Botanical Gardens. The green spaces only get grander with the Generalife palace and gardens to the east and beyond that the mountainous wilds of the Sierra Nevada national park, where you can ski in season. Realejo may be an antique Jewish Quarter, but local graffiti artists have brought it up to date with large-scale murals, so take yourself on a casual tour before swinging by the Museum of Fine Arts, not only home to important paintings, sculptures and objets, but housed in the Palace of Charles V, which has a spectacular colonnaded patio within. Music fans should take a mini pilgrimage to Placeta Joe Strummer, which was named after the Clash frontman (who loved the city) after a petition from residents – a mural commemorates him here – then hit El Bar de Eric (8 Calle Escuelas), close to the hotel to see up-and-coming rockers play.
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