Hotels in Bilbao

If you’re going to Bilbao mainly to visit the Guggenheim, it’s almost impossible to beat this whimsical, charming hotel located right next door. Iñaki Aurreroextea was tasked with a nearly impossible job: Make a hotel that looks good next to Gehry’s museum without copying the form or…

Built in 1926 in a grand imperial style that recalled the previous century, this grande dame still features an over-the-top (literally) stained glass dome in the lobby. With 142 rooms on six floors and an array of meeting and ballrooms, it has long been the chosen venue for weddings…

There’s no air-conditioning at this old-fashioned townhouse hotel in the old quarter, but thick walls with exposed oak beams and 19th-century solid stone floors keep the rooms from getting very hot, even in the middle of August. There is, however, heat available for the dank months…

This giant pink skyscraper of a hotel stands on the Rio Nervión opposite the Euskalduna Palace. The work of Basque architect Ricardo Legorreta, the hotel was inspired by the site-specific sculptures of Eduardo Chillida. The soaring lobby (40m/131 ft. high) is filled with large-scale…

Almost as close to the Guggenheim as the Hotel Domine, the Miró is the signature hotel decorated by Spanish fashion designer Antonio Miró, who is to Spanish menswear what Calvin Klein is to American. The hotel exterior is a neo-Bauhaus checkerboard of gray steel and tinted glass, and…