Review of Escondrijo, by Angela Moore

This boutique hotel is a complex, interesting, Andalucian townhouse. The house was originally of Moorish construction; later it was the Vera Crux chapel, ruined in the 18th-century; it was a family home for many years after that.

The facilities

In its current incarnation, it's a sexy little boutique hotel of sleek, stylish, contemporary ways, cut with jewel-like tiles and lush fabrics. The bottom of the house is the traditional open patio which serves as public space, with a deliciously cushioned cave of a TV room, an honesty bar and a little internet work station. There's more public space at the top of the boutique hotel on a rooftop terrace, complete with sleek loungers and the views for which Vejer is justly famous.

The rooms

Plenty of thought (and not a little cash) has gone into the restructuring of boutique hotel Escondrijo's rooms. There are just four rooms and each is different, though they share lofty spaciousness, charming original features (beams, stonework) and contemporary, comfortable furnishings.

Room One has a hammock swinging on a mezzanine level above the bed and the Moorish equivalent of French windows opening onto your own private terrace and your own private patch of that Vejer view. Room Three has a colonial-style salon, a dressing area and also a swoon-worthy bedroom in a red so lush it touches on the bordello. The smallest rooms in the boutique hotel are rooms two and four, they are more Moorish, but no less luscious. All rooms have excellent bathrooms, CD players, elegant furnishings and thoughtful details.