Casa Boquera

The rooms are exquisitely furnished, very comfortable and spacious. Hurray! All the towels can be hung up on hooks! Not sure about the bathtub being visible from the bed room, but each to their own! Breakfast in a beautifully appointed room was delicious with excellent choices. The only downside for me was the dining room which, when compared to the rest of the Casa looked tired and unloved! Views are outstanding, and if you are a star gazer, you will be in your element. Not overly impressed with the house wines, but Jumilla and Yecla are not too far away!

The place is good with good rooms and nice location. But the service at dinner was terrible and the waiter created chaos and had no interest in his customers or to get them satisfied with food and drink. The breakfast personnel were very good, however. Since the place is remotely located it is not easy to go somewhere else for dinner if you live there. So my advice is don’t eat dinner there, and hence don’t stay there.

We were really looking forward to eating and staying here after reading the rave reviews. I can honestly say I am bitterly disappointed. The room is nice and I have no complaints about it (we stayed in the suite). However, the food here leaves a lot to be desired. We arrived hungry and thought we would have lunch, we ordered carbonara and “special salad”. The carbonara was just a microwave meal reheated, small portion, bland and very mediocre, the special salad was just a bag of mixed leaves from the supermarket a portion of which were rotten, served with an under ripe avocado an apple, grapes and walnut, underwhelmed wasn’t the word. The lunch was so bad that we decided to cancel the evening meal, however thinking we may have been rash given the rave reviews we decided to give the restaurant a try in the evening. I really wished we hadn’t as again it was a severe disappointment. The best dish was the tuna tartar which was good, the cod bites “to share” were more akin to a 5 euro kids meal and certainly not worth the 15 euro price tag for 5 pieces of fish bites!! My wife ordered the 200g beef tenderloin and I ordered the salmon. The tenderloin was the thinnest and worst cut of steak we have ever had in Spain, it was more like a minute steak which you would get in a low quality resort on the coast, the roasted veg beneath it was cold like it had sat for a while waiting for the steak. The salmon was adequate at best, soggy skin, cold roasted veg, disappointing. In all honesty we have had some great meals in Yecla and we were really looking forward to this one, after eating at Barahonda last night this place does not even come close in terms of food quality or service. My advice to anyone thinking of coming here is save you hard earned cash and go to Barahonda instead.