HIGH DESERT · 1,400 M
Eleven rooms, one road in, no televisions.
An adobe house at 1,400 metres, built around a spring-fed pool and a courtyard of ocotillo. Three nights minimum, because two is not long enough to stop checking your phone.
From 240 € · three-night minimum
THE ROOMS
Eleven rooms, three types, honest sizes.
Thick walls, lime plaster, linen. No room number is a surprise once you are standing in it — the square metres below are the real ones, measured wall to wall.
Courtyard rooms
24 SQ M
Ground floor, private terrace, opening onto the ocotillo courtyard. Six of them.
Tower rooms
31 SQ M
Upstairs, deep window seats, and the good light in the afternoon. Four of them.
The Long Room
46 SQ M
Its own plunge pool and worth the difference. There is only one, so it books first.
THE POOL
The pool is spring-fed and cold. It is silent from 7am to 10am by house rule, and nobody has ever complained.
The spring runs at fourteen degrees year-round and we do not heat it. Towels are by the door in the wall. After ten it is an ordinary pool again, and children are welcome in it.
SILENT HOURS
07:00
to
10:00
No conversation, no phones, no service. Coffee is left on the wall at six.
THE KITCHEN
One menu, changed daily.
One menu a night, four courses, written at noon based on what came up from the valley. Tell us about allergies when you book and we will build around them properly.
DINNER
20:00, one sitting
BREAKFAST
Whenever you appear
WHAT THERE IS TO DO
There is no spa, no gym, no activities desk.
THERE IS NOT
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A spa, or anything with the word wellness on it
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A gym
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An activities desk
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A television, in any of the eleven rooms
THERE IS
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40 km of walking tracks, from the gate
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A good hammock
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220 books
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A sky with no light pollution in any direction
GETTING HERE
The last 14 km are unpaved.
Two and a half hours from the airport, the last 14 km on graded dirt. A normal car is fine, a low sports car is not. We will send exact coordinates, not an address.
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Fly to the regional airport
Two direct arrivals a day; we can meet either.
02
Two and a half hours of road
Sealed the whole way, one petrol stop worth taking.
03
The last 14 km, graded dirt
Slow, washboarded in places, and perfectly passable.
04
Coordinates, not an address
Sent with your confirmation. The address does not exist.
RATES
By season, with minimum stays.
From 240 euro a night in low season to 410 in October. Three-night minimum year-round, five nights over New Year. Dinner is 55 € a head and breakfast is included.
JUNE — AUGUST
Low season
240 €
Three nights minimum
MARCH — MAY, NOVEMBER
Shoulder
310 €
Three nights minimum
THE BEST LIGHT OF THE YEAR
October
410 €
Three nights minimum
27 DECEMBER — 2 JANUARY
New Year
410 €
Five nights minimum
Per room per night, two people, taxes included. The Long Room is 90 € above the season rate. We do not run promotions and the price you are quoted is the price.
AVAILABILITY
Tell us the nights, and we will tell you which of the eleven are free.
Three nights minimum, year-round. Write to us with your dates, how many of you there are, and anything the kitchen should know. We answer every enquiry by hand, usually inside a day.
reservations@casaocotillo.example · coordinates sent on confirmation