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[Hotel] Trips to the Inns of Aragon (Part I) - Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña

Harnessing the latest week off that we had, before our daughter started kindergarten and his mother returned to work after a long maternity leave, we took a route through Aragon. Not very far because we did not have many days, and did not want to spend time with a girl km 5 month asking not for food.

After several searches, we saw some deals that caught our attention: Inns of Aragon. Looking

distances and possibilities, we chose two of those Inns with their respective offers two-night getaway. Leaving on a Monday and returning home on Friday, we covered the four nights, the first two in the Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña (Huesca) and the next two in the Castillo Papa Luna Palace Illueca ( Zaragoza).


The first store is located next to the seventeenth-century monastery of San Juan de la Peña, in a truly beautiful in the mountains. Everything was fresh snow, but the access road to Santa Cruz de la Serós was in perfect condition, with virtually no snow on the asphalt.

Facilities meet the requirements one would expect from a modern 4-star superior . Its 25 rooms are spacious, with excellent views of the field (photos attached) and adjacent forests, but being newly built (I think from 2008) is finished and furniture that are a little messed up (damp on the ceilings toilets, for example). Wifi available in public areas and spacious lounge / restaurant.

The SPA is simple, but adequate. I should also add that during our visit, some of the points whirlpool did not work or did not correctly. A improvements would be looking hammam is the typical prefabricated plastic and not the friendliest of tile.


We expected that there would be a little less of service, considering we were in season during the week, but we were surprised by the low level that maintained minimal facilities, spaces and services.


The restaurant menu available only closed, average quality, quantity and too little money for his service (18 € pax without wine). Here the problem was that there was no other cuisine less than 30-40 minutes by car, with icy roads at night, etc. So dinner was almost impossible to consider elsewhere.


The relatively extensive wine list without surprises: Rioja, Ribera del Duero i some wines of Aragon (Carignan, Somontano and little else). I really expected a display of small wineries Somontano (not found in supermarkets), Calatayud, Campo de Borja, Carignan, ... A disappointment was joined by the fact that the prices were exorbitant for some of the wines.


In the first scene, there was no option to choose any wine, but I opted for a second Muriel Crianza 2006 I liked a lot. Simple and basic, within the parameters of a Rioja Crianza old-fashioned.

We
visits to two monasteries: the Old Man of the New Century of X i XVII, the latter attached to a hospice. Both visits are worthwhile, because the former has a very special location, where the monastery is adapted perfectly (under a rock), and the second has a reconstruction of it where you can visit over by large glass floor. The cost of the visits will not know because they were part of the offer we had acquired on the web that manages the reserves of the Inns of Aragon.

In the next post we will comment that this was for the Castillo-Palacio del Papa Luna in Illueca.