RH Don Carlos & Spa

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 RH Don Carlos & Spa is a four-star with a spa on Calle del Maestro Bayarri, one street back from the seafront. Do not book it for the beach on your doorstep: it sits about 285 metres from the water in a straight line, measured from its verified coordinates, and its own listing does not claim a beachfront address. What it is close to is the old town — the castle is roughly 700 metres away, which in Peñíscola is one of the shorter walks of any four-star here.

The spa is the reason to choose it. There is also an outdoor pool and a gym, and the hotel serves half board and full board, both taken from the chain’s own published conditions. Parking is not stated anywhere we could cite, so we do not list it; the chain does publish, in its own FAQ, that pets are not accepted at any of its three Peñíscola properties.

Its review record is unusually consistent for this town: 9.0 on Booking over 1,448 reviews and 4.6 on TripAdvisor over 1,204 — strong on both, on two different scales, with enough volume behind each that neither is a fluke. Rates start from 95 € a night, which is what a full spa and that review record cost here.

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.

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.

TripAdvisor ranks it number 1 of 43 places to stay in Peñíscola.

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.

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 · 240 reviews analysed

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.

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:

• Parking
• Destinia
• Central de Reservas
• Buscounchollo

Where it sits among the 37 places we track

Its starting rate of 95 € is above the median of 77 € across the 24 properties that publish one, which run from 50 € to 120 €.

On Booking its 9.0/10 over 1,448 reviews puts it at number 3 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 RH Don Carlos & Spa 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.

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Frequently asked questions

The full page is in Spanish

The reviews of RH Don Carlos & Spa broken down platform by platform, and the photographs, are on the Spanish page.

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Also in English

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