travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Casa Higueras

Hotel Casa Higueras travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This beautiful boutique hotel, housed in a historic home, is situated up in the hills at the end of a short dead-end side street. Its angled location along Cerro Alegre (or happy hill in English) makes it extremely quiet and private.

The large, multilevel mansion was built in the 1920s for a wealthy ship builder, naval officer and engineer. His home was a famed social gathering point for socialites in its heyday. Over the decades, it has changed hands man...