Hello!
For our late Sept visit (grandma, myself and 10yo daughter), we're trying to select hotels.
Ideally we'd be walking distance to sights and restaurants (no mobility issues) and in a charming hotel with lots of local flair. We'd prefer a comfortable room that works for the 3 of us.
Seville: Casas de Juderia is high on my list. H10 Plata is another (with a BF sale as Mirabel noted in another post!). Also liked Hotel Hospes Las Casas del Rey, but that's more expensive than I'd prefer.

Granada:
Casa 1800 was high on my list, but that isn't one that my travel agent works with.
They've suggested Casa de la Trinidad or Alhambra Palace Parador.

Thoughts, pros/cons on any of these?

Thank you!

The only obstacle I see with Sevilla´s Casa de la Judería is that since its inauguration back in 1992 for the World´s Fair, it has grown and grown, into a series of buildings, some far from the lobby and requiring quite a walk and can be a bit confusing at night. I don´t know if they will guarantee you a room in a particular building. I´m just not sure.

The H10 Plata does require a short walk from the Plaza de la Encarnación to the hotel entrance, because the street where it´s located is pedestrianized but it´s not far and the hotel itself is within easy walking distance of the Cathedral.

And the Hospes Las Casas del Rey de Baeza is quite removed from the center in the northeast corner of the Barrio de Santa Cruz (I know it), so it would require lots more walking. I think you would want something more central.

For Granada, do you have to book it with your travel agent? It would be my choice for you downtown. That, or the Aura Catedral, which has a 9.2 ("wonderful") rating on Booking.com.

I'm a bit confused---does your agent mean the very pricey Parador on the grounds of the Alhambra or does he/she mean the 4-star Alhambra Palace (not a Parador), which is outside the Alhambra grounds, but on the Alhambra hill.
I've stayed at both, but they do require a short taxi ride downtown or a short ride on the red minibus C30 or C32 if you want to visit the Cathedral and Royal Chapel, other downtown monuments or if you want to do a tapas crawl at night.

And regarding restaurants, the only restaurants that would be close by for you would be those of the Parador and the Alhambra Palace or the restaurant of the Aurea Washington Irving for evening dining. For lunch there are a few restaurants up on the Alhambra hill such as the indoor courtyard cafe of the Hotel América open to non guests for lunch (hotel is closed in winter) and the restaurant of the Hotel Guadalupe or the (imo fairly mediocre) La Mimbre.

I don't know the Casa de la Trinidad downtown. It receives a review score of 8.7 on booking.com

You might want to peruse the Telegraph reviews of these Granada hotels.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...ranada/hotels/

For others reading this, Granada has a new 5-star hotel, the SEDA CLUB, that I haven't yet seen. It's a member of Small Luxury Hotels and gets a 9.8 rating on booking.com.
https://www.sedaclubhotel.com/en/

Thanks Mirabel!
I’m getting overwhelmed with all the choices! No, we don’t have to book through the agent if there’s something we’d prefer- I could always book it separately.
is there a different area that you’d reco would be better to be in, in Granada? It’s a short stay of 2 days/2 nights. I’d read that a tea house might be fun to visit, but likely most of our time will be exploring the Alhambra and gardens.

If you plan to spend most of your time exploring the Alhambra, doing both the day and night visits and visiting the gardens above it, then the two Alhambra hotels would work (actually the Aurea Washington Irving would work as well, as it's slightly below the Alhambra entrance pavilion), but many visitors prefer to lodge in the center city. It's a matter of personal preference. I've done both.

If you want to visit one of the ubiquitous tea houses in "little Morocco", and if you want to do some tapas dining at night, it would be best for you to stay downtown. Staying downtown would give you the opportunity to see the Cathedral, the magnificent Royal Chapel and to take a stroll through the former Arab quarter of the Albaicín (an uphill climb) and enjoy the sunset view of the Alhambra (with the crowds) at the Mirador de San Nicolás (about which Clinton waxed ecstatic) or do it by minibus 32.

The Granada city center, I think, will be much livelier for you, your daughter and your mother, with easier, less strenuous walking. The Alhambra hill lodgings, the Parador, the Alhambra Palace and the Aurea Washington Irving require some steeper climbs, and again, it will be very quiet at night, although center city Granada is just a short taxi ride away.

I think you’re right. City center area sounds good to me, the way you’ve laid it out!

What I didn't mention about Sevilla's Casas de la Judería (there's a sister hotel in Córdoba)-----it's now a collection of 27 interconnecting traditional Seville homes, with 40 some patios and subterranean passageways. That's why I mentioned that it can be confusing to find one's way back to one's room at night. Some guests say that they needed a map to get through the maze. It now has 134 rooms and a rooftop pool.

For others following this, Granada now has a second new 5-star hotel, the Palacio Gran Vía, a Royal Hideaway Hotel, which I haven't seen. It opened this summer but just now came into my radar. It receives a Booking rating of 9.6 (exceptional).
https://www.barcelo.com/es-es/palaci...ideaway-hotel/