The Top 14 Hotels Near Arcos de Quejana
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An 85-foot trunk of rolled stone climbs the full height of the atrium, which tells you immediately what kind of hotel this is. Across from Bilbao's Guggenheim, the Artist is a design hotel where the furniture is a literal museum of 20th-century pieces and the lobby bar channels 1930s New York with Art Deco details and monthly jazz. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. Athletes, models, and architects fill the rooms, and they all dress accordingly.
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A steel-and-glass retrofit inside a century-old building on the Bilbao estuary, Tayko is a boutique hotel that leans into the tension between the two rather than ironing it out. Exposed concrete and polished industrial finishes sit alongside the original bones, and the rooms carry that same contrast from cozy singles up to junior suites. Martín Berasategui's Michelin-starred restaurant Ola is downstairs, which takes care of the question of where to eat.
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The building was once a bank headquarters, and you can still feel the mid-century weight of it in the lobby. This upscale hotel on Gran Via runs to spacious modern rooms, a full spa, and a rooftop terrace with vertical gardens and city views. Eneko Atxa oversees the restaurant, where updated Basque cooking anchors a menu backed by local wines. The kind of place that makes Gran Via feel like it was designed around the hotel, not the other way around.
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A green aluminum and glass facade cuts a minimalist silhouette on the Alameda de Mazarredo, roughly midway between the Guggenheim and the Museo de Bellas Artes. The Miró is a boutique hotel done in whites and creams against black marble and dark carpet, with full-length windows and rooms spare enough to feel almost sculptural. The lobby bar is quiet and good for a drink with a newspaper. No restaurant, but Bilbao makes that easy to forgive.
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The old chapel is now a cocktail bar, which tells you everything about how this clifftop palace in Getxo handles its history. A hotel carved from an English-style seaside mansion, it has coffered walls, stained-glass panels, a rare-book library, and a croquet lawn that someone clearly takes personally. Breakfast goes on the stone terrace above the harbor when the weather cooperates, and the wine cellar handles the cold months.
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An old stone farmhouse outside Bermeo, converted into an eight-suite hotel where the brothers who run it have sourced nearly everything from local farmers, artisans, and winemakers, down to the soap. Exposed stone walls and wood-beamed ceilings sit alongside Scandinavian-inflected furniture and standalone soaking tubs, and the larger rooms add wood-burning stoves. The farm-to-table restaurant gives you a reason to come back inside after a day hiking the green Basque hills.
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A 16th-century palace in Rioja wine country that couldn't quite leave itself alone, Palacio Tondón pairs weathered stone walls with metal-and-glass additions, the result looking like a very confident renovation project. It's a boutique hotel where the best rooms face the Ebro river, the minimalist interiors lean on original stonework and knotty pine for warmth, and the on-site fine-dining restaurant keeps a wine cellar stocked with the region's heavy hitters.
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A baroque palace in the heart of La Rioja wine country, restored into a boutique hotel of sleek contemporary rooms and apartment-style residences. The team behind a celebrated Riojan restaurant runs the kitchen and has assembled what may be the largest collection of Rioja D.O.Ca. wines anywhere, so the wine bar is the obvious first stop. A small spa and gym round things out for guests who, at some point, need to stop drinking.
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A 16-room boutique hotel inside a stone manor that has been standing since the 16th century, in a Rioja village small enough that the Vivanco Wine Museum is a short walk. Rooms mix heavy timber and old stonework with modern furniture and color, opening onto views of river, vineyards, or rooftops. The restaurant leans into regional Rioja cooking, and the cellar does exactly what you'd hope a cellar in wine country would do. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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A nine-room estate hotel inside a centuries-old palace in Spain's Rioja Alavesa wine country, each room named for a grape varietal and filled with objects collected from across the globe. Ariane de Rothschild runs the place, which means the Basque fine-dining restaurant and the sustainability angle coexist without irony. The family winery, Macán, is nearby for obvious reasons, and horseback riding or hot-air balloon rides keep the weekends from feeling purely vinous.
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Frank Gehry designed this hotel as a winery headquarters that became too striking to keep private, and the titanium ribbons draped over the building still stop traffic in the middle of Rioja wine country. Rooms in the main structure follow its swooping contours, with outward-canting windows framed by steel. A Caudalie vinotherapy spa, a wine bar, and organized tastings round out a stay. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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The stacked-cube exterior looks like a Brutalist fever dream dropped into a sleepy Rioja Alavesa wine village, next door to an 18th-century church that has opinions about its new neighbor. This modernist boutique hotel keeps the angular drama going inside, though the rooms settle into something genuinely comfortable, with corner views of the Sierra de Cantabria and butcher-block bathroom counters that land better than marble ever would. There's a restaurant and a rooftop bar for sundowners.
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Sailboats from the Puerto Chico marina are the view from this small boutique hotel facing Santander's bay. It's a compact, personable stay with clean contemporary interiors, and the location does a lot of the work: the Cantabrian Maritime Museum and the Palace of Festivals are essentially next door, the beach is a short walk, and the bay itself is listed among the most beautiful in the world, which the sailors apparently already knew.