Where to sleep in Las Palmas: charming urban hotels

Currently, one of the attractions of making a tourism getaway to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is to be able to stay in some of its modern city hotels o charming accommodations that have proliferated in recent times in the city.

During the time of pandemic, compared to the general trend in the country of closing hotel establishments, in the Canary Islands capital they have opened new hotels.

In this regard, the new accommodation alternatives have recovered historical buildings, so that now in this canarian city there is a wide offer of modern charming hotelsas well as suite and apartment options in its historic area.

Where to sleep in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Next we are going to talk about various accommodation alternatives What do you have to enjoy a very pleasant stay in the canarian capital.

Hotel Santa Catalina in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

If we have to talk about a emblematic hotel in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, without a doubt we must refer to the Santa Catalina Hotel recently renovated.

 

Curiosities about the history of the Hotel Santa Catalina

With 130 years of history, Santa Catalina Hotel is located in the heart of the Garden City, the area where English merchants who arrived in the city since the end of the 19th century historically settled, and which became the most exclusive neighborhood in the city.

Acquired by him town hall of Las Palmas after the Civil War, the current construction dates back to the 50s.

El Santa Catalina Hotel shows a feature canarian architecture and throughout its history it is the place where personalities who have visited the city have stayed and where they have celebrated major events, in addition to being a luxurious alternative for vacation accommodation.

In 2017, the municipal company that owns it awarded Barcelo Hotels hotel management.

This chain, now a concessionaire, launched a reform which was completed in 2019, in which all its structure and façade have been preserved, maintaining its characteristic decoration of canarian neocolonial style.

Now the Santa Catalina is a Grand Luxury hotel which has the name to Royal Hideway Hotel, and has 204 rooms.

Doramas Park next to the Santa Catalina Hotel

A great contribution of this renovation has been the opening of the hotel towards the annex Doramas Park, located behind the establishment, after the removal of a wall that separated it.

These very pretty English style gardens from the late 19th century are one of the best places in the city to walk among its exotic vegetation.

It is also one of the places in the city where an outdoor amphitheater takes place every weekend. various music concerts.

What is the Hotel Santa Catalina in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria like?

During your walk through the meeting rooms of the Santa Catalina hotel you will be able to see various artistic works, such as murals by the Canarian artist Jesus Arencibia in which the life of the Canarians is represented, and in the galleries that overlook the park paintings of Fernando Alamo.

When you go to stay you will see that in the Room has been preserved canarian neocolonial style It combines wood and marble, and most of the original elements have been maintained.

Restaurants at Hotel Santa Catalina

To highlight the gastronomic aspect of the Hotel Santa CatalinaWith its Poems restaurant by Hermanos Padrón, with one Michelin star, as well as a tapas-bar.

It is also worth noting the organization of concerts and musical events in the front gardens of the hotel, like the Santa Catalina Classic Festival, accessible to all audiences.

How to go up to the terrace of the Hotel Santa Catalina

A tip to get to know the hotel, if you are not going to stay there during your getaway to Las Palmas, is to go up to the Alis Rooftop Bar located on the terrace of the building, which opens to the general public from 17,30:XNUMX p.m.

In addition to seeing your infinity pool, while you enjoy a cocktail in a very pleasant atmosphere, you will have some excellent panoramic views of this area of ​​the city, with the grounds that surround the hotel, the Garden City and Leisure port, sports port.

New charming urban hotels in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Apart from the renovated Hotel Santa Catalina, as I have mentioned, now in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria you have other interesting ones urban accommodation options, of which I am going to highlight some of them.

For example, the hotel THe Lumm located in the Santa Catalina park in the commercial port area, a pleasant and modern four-star urban hotel, which highlights its terrace with pool and bar with atmosphere chill out and views of the Bay of Islets.

In the same area is the Bex hotel, built in the building of the former headquarters of the Foreign Bank of Spain, modern 4 star boutique hotel and with 97 rooms.

If you prefer to stay for the Triana neighborhood area, you have several boutique hotelsand Friendly Maltese located in a old modernist mansion, and Cordial the Pilgrim, with a large roof terrace with sunroom and decking area and swimming pool with views of the Library square of the frogs and the St. Anne's Cathedral.

And in the historic area of ​​Vegueta accounts with modern hotels in emblematic housesas Suite 1478; Ventiuno Emblematic, this one in front of the cathedral; the boutique hotel Cathedral; and the hotel Cordial la Niña de Vegueta, in another building from the end of the 19th century.

Finally, in this area you also find new and modern apartment-style accommodation alternatives like the manor house The Colonial Suites y Montesdeoca House in a historic building from the 16th century.