Hotel Alfonso XIII, Seville
Expert reviews
“No question about it, this is the swankiest address in town. Hotel Alfonso XIII is a palace built for King Alfonso XIII of Spain to host important guests when Seville hosted its great exhibition in 1929.”
Featured as Frommer’s Exceptional Choice in Seville.
“Inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII in 1929 when he visited the World’s Fair, this grand hotel next to the university is a splendid, historic, Mudejar-style palace, built around a central patio and surrounded by ornate brick arches. Classic meets modern throughout the hotel, which has been graciously restored over the years.”
Featured as Fodor’s Choice in Seville.
“This magnificent landmark hotel framed by palm trees is a much-loved piece of Seville’s history. With lamps bearing crowns and regal beds, you could say it’s fit for a king or queen. It’s also one of only two five-star Gran Lujo hotels in the city, and offers on-site cooking courses and wine tastings.”
What guests liked
- Top location
- Comfortable beds
- Friendly staff
- Free Wifi
- Swimming pool
All you need to know
Hotel Alfonso XIII comprises 148 rooms and suites, with plenty of modern amenities and a fantastic location in the city center. Initially constructed by King Alfonso XIII for the royals attending the 1929 World Fair, this hotel is not only historical, but also provides a taste of luxury. You’ll notice several Instagram-worthy details around the property, like an orange blossom courtyard with a Moorish fountain, magnificent towers, and mosaic-lined arches.
Hotel Alfonso has several rooms to choose from, ranging from deluxe queen rooms to several ornate suites. The design of the suites and rooms was influenced by Moorish, Andalusian, and Castillian styles, just like the rest of the city. Each room includes a flatscreen TV, minibar, in-room safe, air conditioning, a coffeemaker, a tea maker, and a complimentary newspaper. The largest room, Suite Alfonso XIII, boasts over 1500 square feet of space on the first floor. This ornate suite has a bathtub, shower, and a balcony or terrace.
You will have access to the outdoor pool and fitness center during your stay. The pool bar is open seasonally, serving drinks, quick bites, and light Mediterranean meals. Other dining options include Restaurant San Fernando (serving breakfast and Mediterranean), ENA Sevilla (offering tapas, drinks, tea, and light meals), and Galeria/Patio (with breakfast, tea, and quick bites). This hotel also has another bar and a breakfast buffet for an additional charge. With plenty of dining options, room options, and an incredible location in the center of everything, Hotel Alfonso XIII has it all!
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Recent guest reviews
16 August 2024
From the checkin to checkout they did not put a foot wrong.
Everything was Incredible!
15 August 2024
Memorable stay
Elegant & luxurious place, room is clean with full facilities, restaurant very nice
The room is slightly small
14 August 2024
Overall it’s a nice experience
The hotel is nice and you feel you went back in time.
The room was very dirty! Hair was all over the bathroom. However they cleaned it well when we asked them to do so.
12 August 2024
Exceptional
This hotel was one of the highlights of ourrr trip!!! Beyond amazing and luxurious. I felt like a princess walking through it. The welcoming was amazing, the service was beyond great and the parking was excellent as it was private.
11 August 2024
Wonderful
The building
11 August 2024
This hotel was an excellent choice. Perfect for your stay beautiful grounds and location was perfect to access everythin
Very Beautiful and clean
Nothing
10 August 2024
Amazing stay in a gorgeous hotel in stunning Seville.
The hotel is in an excellent location for visiting Seville. It is a stunning hotel, the most luxurious interior. The breakfast/dining room area is beautiful as are the areas around it, reception, corridors, landings and lifts. The staff were very friendly and welcoming. The staff work very hard. The staff who served us by the pool and those who served us at breakfast were fantastic and very obliging at all times. The staff who serviced the rooms were excellent as were those who took luggage etc t
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9 August 2024
Exceptional
As always impecable. Very comfortable.
4 August 2024
It was the highlight of our time in Spain.
The hotel is breathtakingly beautiful. The patio area where we ate breakfast was particularly pretty.
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31 July 2024
Lovely location, great staff and we will be back!
The architecture was exceptional as was the breakfast! Temperature of the pool was just right and the staff were all lovely and helpful.
The children, this hotel would really benefit from being an adults only venue. The menu was limited on the terrace and needed a daily special. Pool food was fairly expensive.
30 July 2024
Exceptional
- history - location - breakfast
- there are a lot of Americans with no social etiquette (wearing caps and t-shirt in restaurants; talking loud,..) should be more strict on how to behave in such kind of hotels - would be nice to provide complimentary water at the swimming pool - would be nice to have a cosy hôtel bar inside the property
29 July 2024
Very good
I was there for a wedding and really enjoyed my time. The venue is outstanding, breath taking and special. Tours of the ground are available which I didn't have a chance to sign up for as I was only there for one night. The room was amazing and clean as advertised.
There was an odd situation with the iron and ironing board. Multiple staff insisted that there was one present in my room but I checked a few times and there wasn't one. Wasted a lot of time back and forth so was late for the wedding. They did finally deliver the iron to my room but it burned my dress. I looked closely at the iron and seems like there was previous burns on it too. The ironing board itself was tiny with a sticky cover that made it a nightmare to iron delicates. A bit confusing and shocking for a 5 star hotel. Was not advised about the complimentary laundering/dry cleaning service. The AC ran well at night but during the day, the fan wasn't strong enough for some reason. The pool is stressful and busy. I was also not advised that there is water available at the front desk for refillable bottles when I had asked where I could buy more water. Staff was friendly but don't go out of there way as they would at other 5 star hotels to advise you on facilities and offerings.
28 July 2024
Beautiful hotel, perfect location, lovely staff
Design of the hotel, the vendor at the entrance greeted us with a floral ring that smelled amazing- this was a very nice touch. Also a gentleman saw us watching the eurocup in the Bar Americano and he moved us to a beautiful area to watch the game- set us up with snacks and drinks
The lunch service in the lobby could be better- the food was amazing but we waited quite a bit to order. The AC in the room was a bit inconsistent
27 July 2024
Great hotel in a fantastic location. Overall very enjoyable experience.
Location, staff very friendly, heritage hotel, very classy
Housekeeping variable, stayed there 3 nights and over that period occasionally water wasn’t replenished, forgot the towels, didn’t replace toilet roll etc
22 July 2024
Magnificent
The History and standard of the property was amazing, the architecture was beautiful. The tour was a wonderful touch and provided a great insight, enormous thanks to Maria Brava, hope I remembered her name correctly. The food, service and attention to detail,by all staff encountered was 1st class.
Slightly noisy AC
19 July 2024
A magical hotel in a wonderful location
Exceptional staff in terms of warmth and information at check in - a beautiful French girl who was leaving the next day and a charming Italian bar waiter who spoke 4 languages. The hotel itself is an enchanting experience offering antiquity and modern day luxury
Breakfast was a little chaotic on day 2. The buffet dishes were very empty at 10am, staff difficult to get hold off to order tea or clear dirty plates.
17 July 2024
Fabulous
The location and the room is amazing
I was unlucky because the AC of the room was not working probably
7 July 2024
Wonderful stay
staff, facilities, friendliness, level of service, beauty of hotel
gym too warm (needs to be a lot cooler in order to exercise) and not spacious enough for putting mats on floor to do stretching exercises
6 July 2024
The service from start to finish was absolutely impeccable. A thoroughly enjoyable stay.
Service. Location.
Not my style of interior, but that’s totally subjective!
2 July 2024
Fabulous
Perfect location of the hotel, rooms unbelievable and staff always there to support on everything. Excellent choise
28 June 2024
I liked everything: the atmosphere, the friendliness and professionalism of the staff, the building
Super everything I liked everything: the atmosphere, the friendliness and professionalism of the staff, the building of the hotel, its location, full compliance with the highest standards
25 June 2024
Fabulous
Good location Nice staff
21 June 2024
Exceptional
A true Grand Hotel with all the services and grandeur befitting this.
Service at meals was inexcusably slow.
17 June 2024
The hotel, its location, the staff were outstanding, highly recommended for staying in the center.
The staff, the food and the hotel were all magnificent. The staff could not do enough to make sure you had everything that you needed, attentive and responsive, but not over bearing. The pool area was clean and the pool was just right, not overcrowded and good service around the pool.
Nothing
12 June 2024
Delightful a really specil magical feel, like stepping back in time. Looking forward to retuning.
Everything, one of the most beautiful hotels iv ever been in.
10 June 2024
Stay here…Dine elsewhere
Food excellent. Kitchen doing its job.
Restaurant service substandard, diffident. Wait staff letting the kitchen down. Out of context for this otherwise classic property!!
7 June 2024
Resort style stay in the city!
Beautiful hotel, great rooms very spacious
Access to the outside bar is over complicated and the pool is hidden, if you don’t know it’s there already you’d miss it
6 June 2024
Very nice, may go back.
Very nice building and decor. Rooms comfortable.
No roof top bar. Staff very good but I expected better spoken English, could not always understand our requests. Poor coffee/ tea making facilities and day after day took dirty cups away but didn’t replace.
6 June 2024
Impressive surroundings.
Brilliant staff.
1 June 2024
Splendid
First class from the moment my eyes lay on the outside and the gracious staff inside. We were upgraded and the room was splendid and the best I ever stayed in.
Historical and first class in all aspects
26 May 2024
Exceptional
Everything about this hotel is great. The best hotel in sevilla
The breakfast is great, the rooms are super clean and the bed in so comfy
20 May 2024
A great short break , excellent service and the room was amazing
Loved the whole experience
Nothing
20 May 2024
Nice hotel, very good breakfast, friendly staff, the best location.
breakfast is very good, restaurant is very nice. the hotel has the best location.
it's really overcrowded at Ena.
11 May 2024
It was fine not proportion to the cost. It was a pity because we love the venue and the service sima
I like the initial location greeting but the staff in the restaurant and bar were very slow and we were not told room service breakfast was not included. Very disappointed by having to move rooms with VIP Mary Brennan too.
The slow service in the bar and the noise in our room on Friday night after 1am
29 April 2024
Very comfortable, amazing location, wonderful stay
The hotel is stunning, the architecture is amazing as is the location. The staff are also fabulous…
For a five star hotel I would say The Alfonso needs more staff to be able to deliver a better level of service.
28 April 2024
The hotel fulfilled our expectations for luxury service and location and we had pushed the boat out a bit to stay here a
Dry luxurious in great location.
Nothing all good
26 April 2024
Beautiful Hotel
Excellent location, beautiful interior, spacious well appointed room, friendly and helpful staff, excellent breakfast
There was no signs to direct you to the entrance if you are arriving by car. Therе is a traffic sign "Do not Enter" and pedestrian zone. I would strongly recommend to put instructions on the hotel's website on how to reach the entrance by car.
25 April 2024
Elegant old style luxury in a perfect location.
The elegance
Service in the bar on the Jazz night - not enough staff
22 April 2024
Exceptional
The property the rooms the breakfast was all very nice
1 April 2024
Fabulous
The location and general ambience
Housekeeping service needs training
29 March 2024
An excellent short stay in Seville which we enjoyed greatly
Classic old hotel with personality in an excellent locatIon
Separate showers (rather than in the bath) would have been better
26 March 2024
Lovely stay in gorgeous historic hotel. Loved the central location and beautiful facilities
Great breakfast buffet!
17 March 2024
Nice, would go again for a drink but not for a stay
The location The history The Archi to
It was refurbished so shower was really small and not comfy and staff wasn’t a palace’s level…
17 March 2024
Fantastic hotel to celebrate mine and my twins 60th birthday, highly recommended to everyone
The atmosphere, the service, the architect, everything was 5* as you would expect.
There was nothing I disliked about the property.
14 March 2024
Grand luxury in the heart of Seville
Location and facilities, a grand and well renowned hotel in Seville. Wonderful building with a central courtyard, terrace, and gardens. Room was spacious.
Our room did get some noise because there was a service area underneath and it did look out over the car park. Wasn’t the cheapest room, so lost a mark on that. Also some damage to the bath and done bathroom fittings meant could not give a 10
13 March 2024
Fabulous
Great location, beautiful property and lovely room. We only had breakfast which was good but the restaurant around the courtyard was stunning and menu looked great.
7 March 2024
Marvellous
The location and the property
Tech problems to connect mobile to TV
5 March 2024
Excellent hotel in great location.
Beautiful old hotel, full of stylish historic interiors. Staff are friendly and helpful. Excellent location with valet parking..which is a plus in Seville! Easy walking distance to the Cathedral and the centre.
4 March 2024
Great hotel in a fantastic city.
Excellent location for the wonderful City of Seville. The breakfast buffet was sumptuous and the room was very comfortable. We hired a car and had to pay 30 Euros per day for parking in the hotel, which was a waste as we did not use it for 5 days!!! Maybe a taxi to the hotel would have been more sensible.
Hotel was very good and you pay a high price for it. Would always be better if you can access a deal.
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Special diet menus (on request)
- - Kid meals
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
- - Fruits (additional charge)
- - Coffee house on site
General
- - Room service
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Car hire
- - Heating
- - Allergy-free room
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Shuttle service (additional charge)
- - Airport shuttle (additional charge)
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Currency exchange
- - Tour desk
- - Luggage storage
- - Concierge service
- - Invoice provided
Activities
- - Sauna
- - Fitness centre
- - Solarium
- - Massage (additional charge)
- - Fitness
- - Walking tours (additional charge)
- - Bike tours (additional charge)
- - Bicycle rental
Outdoors
- - Garden
- - Terrace
- - Outdoor pool
- - Sun terrace
- - Outdoor pool (all year)
- - Outdoor furniture
Entertainment and family services
- - Babysitting/child services (additional charge)
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Ironing service (additional charge)
- - Trouser press (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
Parking
- - Electric vehicle charging station
Pool and wellness
- - Salt-water pool
- - Sun loungers or beach chairs
- - Sun umbrellas
- - Swimming pool
- - Swimming Pool
Transport
- - Airport pick up (additional charge)
- - Airport drop off (additional charge)
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Delivered food is securely covered
- - Face masks for guests available
16 August 2024
Perfect. Obviously up there for price but worth a special stay.
From the entrance, checking in experience, decor, room and pool we loved it all. Even the lift is special! Particularly enjoyed the pool