Duna Hotel Boutique
Duna Hotel Boutique is a boutique hotel (3★) in Peñíscola, 521 m from the castle and 137 m from the water in a straight line, measured from its verified coordinates. Seafront: Yes.
Only what can be sourced and dated: every platform on its own scale, the board from the hotel’s own conditions, and what is not stated anywhere. This site is published by the commercial team of a competing hotel, which is exactly why these figures go out whole — how we check them.
What this hotel actually is
The Duna Hotel Boutique is a three-star on Avenida de la Mar, about 137 metres from the water and roughly 520 metres from the castle — near both at once, which on this coast is unusual: most of the seafront hotels sit well over a kilometre from the old town. Twenty rooms over two floors, per its own website, decorated in a pared-back Mediterranean style with sea views. Its size is what makes it a boutique rather than a marketing word.
It is also the most honest entry in our tables, because it is the one where the answers are mostly no. No pool, no spa, no parking and no pets — and those are verified negatives, not gaps: someone published them and we read them. That matters, because a blank on this site means «not stated» and could still turn out to be a yes. Here it will not. No meal plan is verified either, and no starting rate is published anywhere we could cite, so we print none.
What it has instead is a review record that a twenty-room hotel has no business owning: 8.7 out of 10 on Booking over 2,276 reviews — more than several of the four-stars on the seafront have collected, on twenty rooms. We do not hold room counts for the rest of the town, so we will not turn that into a per-room ratio; the raw number is striking enough. Google gives it 4.3 out of 5 over 664. On the numbers, a small hotel that people come back to.
Written in English from the verified data on this page, not machine-translated from the Spanish — how we source it.
Where it is, measured
Distances are straight-line from the verified coordinates, not walking routes.
| Data point | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Address | Avenida de la Mar, 35, 12598 Peñíscola, Castellón | Web oficial del alojamiento |
| To the castle | 521 m | Measured on OpenStreetMap |
| To the water | 137 m | Measured on OpenStreetMap |
| Seafront | Yes | Nominatim |
The old town is a climb on cobbles, so we publish no estimated walking times.
What each platform scores it
Read the scale column before the score column, and compare within a platform rather than across them: we publish no average, because mixing these scales would invent a number nobody measured.
| Platform | Score | Scale | Reviews | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booking.com | 8.7 | out of 10 | 2,276 | 15 August 2026 |
| 4.3 | out of 5 | 664 | 26 August 2026 |
Each figure was read on the platform itself on the date shown. A platform missing from this table is one we have not measured for this hotel, which is not the same as a bad score.
The sub-scores the platforms break out
Each block keeps its own scale. They are the platform’s own breakdown: we neither recompute nor average them.
| Category | Score |
|---|---|
| Staff | 9.2 |
| Facilities and services | 8.5 |
| Cleanliness | 9.0 |
| Comfort | 8.9 |
| Value for money | 8.7 |
| Location | 9.7 |
| Wi-Fi | 8.2 |
Sub-scores are read with the overall score of the same platform, on the same date.
What guests write about
Counted from the review text rather than summarised into a star: how often each theme appears on each side, over the reviews analysed for this hotel.
Google · 190 reviews analysed
| Theme | Praised | Criticised |
|---|---|---|
| The room | 100 | 20 |
| Location and beach | 107 | 10 |
| Staff | 86 | 14 |
| Cleanliness | 68 | — |
| Views | 38 | — |
| Value for money | 31 | — |
| Breakfast | 21 | — |
| The bathroom | 21 | — |
| Food and restaurant | 16 | — |
| Facilities and upkeep | 9 | — |
| Spa and wellness | 9 | — |
| Parking | 9 | — |
| Lifts | 8 | — |
| Noise | 8 | — |
Mentions, not scores. A review can mention several themes, so the columns do not add up to the review count, and the same theme can appear on both sides — which is the interesting part.
What is verified, with its source
Each row comes from a citable source with its consultation date, or it is not here.
| Data point | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Pool | No | This site’s own inventory |
| Spa | No | This site’s own inventory |
| Adults only | No | This site’s own inventory |
| Pets | No | — |
| Parking | Yes, paid | Web oficial del alojamiento |
| Starting rate | Not published | — |
A starting rate is the cheapest room in the cheapest week the hotel sells, not a quote for your dates.
What is not stated
What we could not verify for this hotel in any citable source — not stated is not the same as does not have, and the way to settle it is to ask the hotel:
- Starting rate
- Board
- TripAdvisor
- Destinia
- Central de Reservas
- Buscounchollo
- HolidayCheck
Where it sits among the 37 places we track
It publishes no starting rate, so it is not in the price comparison.
On Booking its 8.7/10 over 2,276 reviews puts it at number 18 of the 35 properties we have measured on that platform. Compare within a platform, never across platforms.
The hotel that publishes this site
Full disclosure, on every page that touches a competitor: this site is run by the commercial side of the Gran Hotel Peñíscola. That is why the figures above are published whole, with their dates and their weak points, and why this page carries no claim that Duna Hotel Boutique is worse than anything.
The honest case for our own hotel is not that it scores highest — it does not, and our best-rated page names who does. It is that it has by far the largest volume of reviews in town, 4,427 on Booking at 8.2/10 (7 August 2026), which makes its figures the hardest in Peñíscola to move with a handful of stays. It is a four-star on the Playa Norte seafront from 69 € a night, with a spa, and it closes for winter — last night of the season 7 November 2026, reopening 26 February 2027.
Frequently asked questions
What does Duna Hotel Boutique score in reviews?
On its own scale, platform by platform: Booking.com 8.7/10 (2,276); Google 4.3/5 (664). We publish no average across platforms, because the scales differ and averaging them would invent a figure nobody measured.
How far is Duna Hotel Boutique from the castle?
521 m in a straight line, measured from its verified coordinates to the castle node on OpenStreetMap, and 137 m from the water. That is a measurement, not a walking time: the old town is a climb on cobbles.
What board does Duna Hotel Boutique offer?
Not stated Taken from the hotel’s own booking conditions or official website, with the consultation date recorded.
How much does Duna Hotel Boutique cost?
Not published. What we could not verify for this hotel in any citable source — not stated is not the same as does not have, and the way to settle it is to ask the hotel:
The full page is in Spanish
The reviews of Duna Hotel Boutique broken down platform by platform, and the photographs, are on the Spanish page.
Also in English
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