What's Possible
This is not a checklist. It's a way of being somewhere.
Ours is slow tourism — the kind where you walk around the Alhambra grounds at dusk rather than queue for a ticket at noon, where you hear flamenco in a private room rather than a tourist tablao, where you eat at a restaurant because someone who lives here told you to. We don't arrange package tours. We arrange the kind of access that comes from knowing people. Everything on this page is a maybe: it depends on who is free that week and whether they want to. You choose from what actually exists on your first morning here, and each one is arranged and paid for on its own.
There are rooms in Granada where flamenco still happens the way it always did — small, late, unrehearsed. Not for audiences. For people who care. We know the door.
Private accessThe valley has its own wine. Family producers in the Alpujarras make wine the old way, in small quantities, available to people they know. The olive harvest in autumn is one of the great seasonal rituals of Andalusia.
SeasonalIn summer, trails above 3,000 metres with almost no one on them. In winter, Europe's southernmost ski slopes with views of Africa. The Alpujarras villages below reward a slow day.
Year-roundNot the Costa del Sol. Cantarrijan is reached by a stunning drive through national forest to the bottom of a gorge — and then the beach opens up: two restaurants with service at your beach chair, some of the clearest water in Spain, and the kind of place you will want to return to every day.
30 minutesA concert inside the Alhambra. A restaurant with a view of it. A neighbourhood bar that opens at midnight and closes when it feels like it. Granada opens to people who know where to go. And no, we will not talk you out of the Alhambra: wanting to see one of the great buildings on earth is not a failure of imagination. Book it well ahead and we will tell you what to do with the hours around it.
Local accessThe bar in Pinos opens early. The Saturday market in the valley has been running longer than anyone can remember. The woman who makes membrillo is not listed anywhere. These things don't need arranging — just time.
On your doorstepAsk the Concierge
What's happening during your stay?
The valley and Granada always have something worth knowing about — a festival, a harvest, a concert in a cave, a car rally through the mountains. Our concierge draws on a live database of local events, seasonal highlights, and things worth timing a trip around.
Click any prompt to open a conversation with the concierge — or ask anything at all.