Normally on our trips we reserve the first and last day and nothing else until the day before, but right now we have the next 12 days reserved. Why? Two words: Semana Santa, which is a big thing in Spain. That’s a week the Spanish take off work and they like to go to the ocean.
Normally I am the cockeyed optimist in the marriage and Wynette is the Mistress of the worst-case scenario. She was worried about Semana Santa so, two weeks before we left, we tried making a few reservations and things were full. We eventually made reservations all the way through April 22. Semana Santa includes the Monday after Easter.
We will be in a medium-small town, San Ciprao, for Easter and we hope to catch some of the processions all during SS.
A few years ago we were on the Italian Riviera at Easter and Wynette literally called 30 places for a reservation and there was none to be had. We ended up staying in Bergamo, way inland.
Lovely, unique hotel settings. Not anything like ‘Best Western’ and ‘Motel 6’.
Yes! Part of the hotel was what they called an old palace. I think they use that word to mean where maybe a Duke lived, not just king/queen. Our room was not in the palace itself but an annex. It was nice but ordinary. The less expensive part of the hotel. 55 euros vs 75.