Booking.com is widely used in Spain for making hotel reservations. On previous trips we avoided using it and preferred to call the hotels directly assuming it was cheaper for them. But calling has not been as successful this trip. Often the phones are not answered or you can’t even find a phone number. My guess is that the hotels find it cheaper to not assign any staff to taking reservations. So we have mostly been using booking.com.
In O Barqueiro we used booking.com and when we got there the reservation was written in longhand in a book. I guess they copy the information from the computer into the book.
The hotels in the northern part of Galicia have kind of an old charm. The wood in the windows and on the stairwells is beautiful. They have unique, bespoke decorations in the public areas.
The Barqueiro hotel was €40 a night. I don’t see how they can survive charging so little.