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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, fourteen rooms with a double bed, eighty eight with twin beds and two single rooms.
All rooms have telephone, cable television, safe, minibar, private bathroom and the majority have balconies facing the sea.
The building is air conditioned. Other facilities include currency exchange, lift, satellite television, parking facilities (without security and limited places) and garden.
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 ”Falleras” (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 and children's
play area.
Distance from the nearest airport is approximately 140 kms, train station is 2 kms away and the nearest port is 140 kms away.
Pets are not allowed.
Map with location Parador Benicarlo comments
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