Luxury Travel Advisor - January 2008 - (Page 12) A FORMER TENAMENT block, Hospes’s Baeza offers cozy, charming guest rooms (above). CONTEMPORARY ART adds a modern touch to Baeza’s Senzone Restaurant (right). (rooms 301, 302, 303 and 304). Of all the suites, the Royal Suite is the best choice for VIPs. The biggest room in the hotel, the suite features a 1,292-squarefoot loft and an expansive living room with a fireplace. The Junior Suite also stands out as a duplex with a bedroom upstairs and living room downstairs. General Manager Alejandro Haurie (direccionhb@elbullihotel.com; 34-955-703-344) is happy to welcome your clients. If he’s not available, contact Enrique Tiscar (etiscar@elbullihotel.com; 34-955-703-344). Hotel facilities include a lovely outdoor pool with a Jacuzzi, daybeds in the gardens, tennis and paddle tennis courts and a heliport. Private luxury cars with chauffeurs are available daily for guests. The spa, Sensoria, is an exclusive area of 1,292 square feet for private use by one guest or a couple. Your clients can luxuriate in their own indulgent hideaway complete with a Jacuzzi, sauna, sensation shower, Turkish bath and two massage therapists. Insiders tell us that the four-hands massage is the most popular treatment. Such a romantic hideaway is an ideal spot for a destination wedding. The hacienda can be rented in its entirety for special events—there’s even a private chapel, dating from the 17th century. The dedicated wedding planner, Martina Cam (martina@elbullihotel.com; 34-955-703-344), has organized gorgeous weddings for the most finicky of celebrities. For an entirely different experience in Seville, book your clients at the Hospes Las Casas Del Rey de Baeza (www.hospes. es), a sophisticated boutique hotel housed in a converted 18th-century tenement block. In this poetic space, geranium blossoms spill from innumerable terracotta pots. Originally a gift from Ferdinand II, king of Castilla, to the king of Baeza, the building is a marvelous fusion of past and present. The hotel’s traditional exterior—white clay walls accented with the ochre found in bullrings across southern Spain—belies the contemporary interior within. The hotel thus distills the very best of Seville, a city peppered with ancient reminders of the past, but graced with modern hightech bridges that date from the World Expo in 1992. The hotel is managed by Cristina Alvarez (gm.hospes.reydebaeza@hospes. es; 34-954-561-496). Situated around two central courtyards with galleried walkways, the 41 rooms are designed in a warm minimalist style with comfort in mind. Spacious bathrooms feature double sinks, large soaking tubs with separate rain showers and exclusive Natural Essences amenities. Colonialstyle furniture and iron beds are juxtaposed with contemporary comforts like flat-screen TVs and DVD players. Your clients will appreciate the pillow menu, fresh flowers and cozy terrycloth bathrobes. Wi-Fi and ADSL Internet access are complimentary, as are the hotel’s bikes, available so guests can explore the charming historical quarter. The entire hotel is bathed in light, though hotel staff insist that room 35 (Double Supe- 12 LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR | January 2008 http://www.hospes.es http://www.hospes.es
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