Hotel Colonial de Santillana · Santillana del Mar - Cantabria

One night stopover en route to Santander. Lovely hotel, easy to find, on the outskirts of town with parking on site. Spacious room with a large comfy double bed and walk in shower. Spotlessly clean facilities and throughout communal areas. Cafe and bar within the hotel where breakfast is taken which was a cold buffet with plenty of choice and fresh produce. Historic town attracting tourists without impact on our stay. Friendly and attentive staff so thanks to Jose and the rest of the team. Highly recommended.

Excellent cafe/restaurant and staff at the hotel! Very kind to distressed visiting strangers. The best fresh-cooked tortilla anyone could want, delicious coffee and croissants, and delicious home-grown pomello!

Your experience will depend on your room location. The odd number rooms are facing south along the busy road. If you sleep with the windows open it will be noisy. Additionally, if it is a hot, sunny day the room could get very warm. The breakfast was a buffet with good choices. The only weird part was if you wanted an egg, their was a 2 euro surcharge. All that aside, it is a very nicely decorated hotel with large rooms and ceiling fans. The treatment by the personnel is top notch and if you have a car they have their own parking. We are bicycle touring and they stored our bicycles inside for the night which we much appreciated.

Such a wonderful small hotel- great service and helpful staff!!!! Very clean, new renovations so bathrooms and bedrooms very fresh and tasteful decor. Towels are huge and excellent! Great water pressure and always hot water for a shower! 1 block into the medieval city and 1 block to a laundry mat and butcher. Great breakfast options- locally made cakes/ toast/ fruit/croissants/ excellent coffee machine (has chocolate option). They will make you eggs and bacon (pancetta) for $2 € extra. Highly recommend It is by the main road into Santillana del Mar- so if vehicles bother you bring ear plugs. Not much traffic at night.

We ate at the restaurant of the hotel after a week of vacation in Suances. It was the best experience we had in the whole week. For a really cheap price of 22€ per person we got first course, an exquisite soup of beans and seafood, second course, an entrecôte with French fries and a little vegetables, and finally a local dessert made with cheese (sweet of course). The lady that served us was the cherry on top. With the typical hospitality of a countryside town, she really made us feel welcomed and relaxed! (As Italians it’s really difficult to satisfy all standards, but it really was perfect)