Parador de Benicarlo

Spain - Costa del Azahar - Benicarlo

Four star hotel in the Parador group near the Mediterranean. Thirty metres from the sea.

This Parador is located next to the quiet beaches of Benicarlo, in the Costa del Azahar holiday coast.

There is a large garden surrounding this Parador hotel with a well cared for lawn, swimming pool and exotic palm trees.

The building has a classical but contemporary appearance, with the decor of the high standard expected in the Parador group.

The panoramic view of the coast is one of the attractions of this hotel.

The restaurant specialises in seafood and rice. The local dish is "alcachofa de Benicarlo" which is the famous Benicarlo artichoke. Amazingly for a holiday hotel, there is a very popular diet breakfast buffet!

During the months of July and August a barbecue is held in the gardens.

The hotel has two suites, eight rooms with a double bed, eighty nine with twin beds and two single rooms. All room have a private bathroom and the majority have balconies facing the sea.

The building is air conditioned and bedrooms have a telephone, cable television, safe and a minibar.

This fishing town has an 18th century church that is worth visiting together with an archaeological museum. There are many restaurants serving the coastal speciality of paella in the town. The whole area is famed for the growing of oranges and fresh orange juice is a delightful drink if the hour has not yet arrived for the local wine.

A visit to the picturesque mountain village of Morella is interesting. One house has a macabre story attached to it dating from the early 1400's. The family had no food to offer the local saint. A wife and her husband killed their son and made a paella with the meat, Saint Vicente later heard of this and put the body together and brought the son back to life. Unfortunately he was missing one finger which his mother had eaten to check the food was cooked to perfection!.

The local festival is the ”Fallas” (burning figures) which takes place in Benicarlo on March 19th. Each about 8 kilometers from he Parador, the Feast of ”Moros y Cristianos” is celebrated in Peniscola on September 8th, and the Carnivals of Vinaroz in February.

The Costa del Azahar is one of the Mediterranean least affected by tourism making it ideal for family holidays.

The hotel has a swimming pool, tennis court, gymnasium, sauna, children's play area and a 9 hole Pitch and Putt course and Putting Green.

Directions

The Parador is located by the sea, on the Costa del Azahar. The recommended access is from the A-7 motorway, which converges on the N-340 2 km from Benicarlo at exit No. 43. Benicarlo is located 70 km away from Castellon/Castelló, the capital of the province.  The train station is just 1.5 km from the Parador.