Ten castles in Europe you can actually sleep in
Most of Europe’s great castles sell you a ticket and send you home at five. These ten hand you a key. All are open and taking bookings for two nights or more, and all of them are on the European mainland — our Britain and Ireland castles have lists of their own.
They are ordered by what you’d expect to pay, from a 12th-century Spanish fortress at under a hundred dollars a night to an Umbrian castle where the suites carry a two-night minimum.
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Booking these takes a phone call, not a search box
Castle hotels are small. Sigüenza has 81 rooms; Otočec has 16 and Reschio has 36, split between the castle and an old vestry, and they are not interchangeable. The room that makes the stay — the one in the tower, the one facing the lough, the one with the private terrace — is rarely the one an online engine hands you, and half of these properties close for part of the year.
We hold the direct relationships, we know which room number to ask for, and in several cases we can add breakfast, a dinner credit or an upgrade at no extra cost through our consortia rates. Tell us your dates and how many nights you want inside the walls.