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Seville, Spain ~ Petit Palace Catedral

October 2026

We knew we wanted to visit Seville during our month in Spain, but we hadn’t made any travel arrangements, so when we were ready to go and saw that train tickets between Granada and Seville weren’t as easy to come by as we expected (high season) and the same was true for hotel rooms, we grabbed what we could find without diving too deep into options. That led us to Petit Palace, which we found on booking.com and then reserved directly through the hotel.

A perfectly decent stay, but a good reminder neverthess

The cab from the train station dropped us at the top of Constitution Avenue, and we walked a pedestrianized block to the hotel. For certain, the location of the hotel can’t be beat if you want to be close to all of Seville’s main attractions. The hotel is less than a block from the Seville Cathedral, and we could see it from our hotel window. For the short time we had in the city (two days), it was nice to be able to get anywhere we wanted on foot.

The hotel itself is nothing to write home about, and while it served the purpose, we do think we could have found something far more interesting for a similar price if we had put in a little more work.

Our room was clean and perfectly functional, although it did smell a little like a recent guest had snuck a cigarette or two. When we asked about this, the hotel offered to put an air purifier in the room but told us it sucks all of the oxygen out of the room, so we’d need to be gone while it was working and be sure to open the windows when we returned. The strategy seemed marginally effective.

The room was bright, and we liked standing on the Juliet balcony watching the activity on Constitution Avenue below. We also appreciated that the bed was a king-sized mattress rather than two twins pushed together, which is not uncommon in Spain and something our apartment back in Granada featured. We had developed strategies to deal with it, but it was nice to sleep without having to be worried about getting sucked into the “big crack.”

During our stay, we learned that the hotel had recently become part of the Petit Palace group. Soho Boutique Hotels were integrated into the Petit Palace network, creating the largest independent urban boutique hotel operator in the Iberian Peninsula. But it didn’t appear that any renovations or refreshes had accompanied the change, and while the hotel was in acceptable condition from a redevelopment that occurred in in 2021, its “sell-by date” seemed to be approaching if it wanted to maintain its four-star status.

Two highlights

We do want to call out two things from our stay that deserve attention. First, the staff member at registration who checked us in handed us a paper map, which we love, and gave us an amazing primer on the city, circling neighborhoods and sites and making notes on restaurants, markets, and shopping. She was an amazing ambassador for the city and we appreciated the advice.

Secondly, we checked out the rooftop pool and bar when we first arrived, but it was quite hot and quite crowded. We returned on the second evening just as the sun was setting. It’s possible that everyone was still on siesta because we were the only ones up there. The temperature was perfect, the lights on the cathedral were coming on, and we enjoyed a nice chat with the bartender who mixed us a delicious pisco sour.

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