Tu Casa San Marcos
Tu Casa San Marcos is a 3-star hotel in San Marcos, Segovia, a sensible choice for sightseeing around Palacio Real de La Granja de San Ildefonso without overspending.
Guests typically choose San Marcos for its balance of location and price; Tu Casa San Marcos is a good fit if you want to be near the action in Segovia.
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What’s included
Around San Marcos
How many nights in Segovia, and what to do with them
Two nights is the minimum that makes Segovia more than a Madrid day trip, and three or four is right if the castles are the reason you came. Day one: the aqueduct at Plaza del Azoguejo — 813 m of it, 28.5 m high at the tallest point — then Calle Real up to Plaza Mayor and the Cathedral, the last great Gothic cathedral built in Spain, at about €4 to enter. Finish at the Alcázar, roughly €9 for the palace with a few euros more for the 152 steps of the Torre de Juan II, and walk out through the Puerta de Santiago into the Eresma valley for the Vera Cruz church and El Parral. Book cochinillo asado for the evening; a full roast menu at one of the old asadores runs €30–40 a head.
Day two belongs to Real Sitio de San Ildefonso: the Palacio Real de La Granja at around €9, the gardens free, and if you have timed it for 30 May, 25 July or 25 August, the full fountain display. Riofrío and its deer estate is 11 km further south, and Valsaín puts you at the Boca del Asno entrance to the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park. With a third night, pick one direction: north-east for Pedraza’s walled square and Zuloaga’s castle plus Sepúlveda and the Hoces del Duratón vulture cliffs, or north-west for the mudéjar brick of Coca and the Alburquerque castle at Cuéllar. A fourth night lets you add Turégano’s fortified church-castle and Ayllón’s red-stone square, 95 km out on the N-110.
What accommodation actually costs in Segovia
Budget in Segovia means €45–70 for a double in a hostal or 2-star in San Millán, El Salvador, San José or Nueva Segovia midweek, rising to €70–95 on a Saturday. Mid-range 3-star inside the Casco Antiguo or the Judería sits at €75–120 Sunday to Thursday and €110–160 on Friday and Saturday, usually in a converted townhouse with small rooms, thick walls and no lift. The top end — 4-star conversions near Plaza Mayor and the Parador on the hill with the city view — runs €110–180 midweek and clears €200 at Semana Santa and during the San Juan y San Pedro fiestas at the end of June. Breakfast is rarely included and costs €8–14; add €14–20 a day if you need to park in the centre.
The rhythm to understand is that Segovia is Madrid’s day trip, so demand is concentrated on Saturday night. The same room can move €40 between a Tuesday and a Saturday in the same week, and a Sunday-to-Thursday stay is the single easiest saving available here. Village posadas in Pedraza, Sepúlveda, Turégano and Ayllón charge €80–130 and often impose a two-night minimum on weekends, particularly during the Pedraza candle nights in early July. La Granja and Palazuelos de Eresma tend to run €70–110 and hold their prices better in August, when the altitude makes them noticeably more comfortable than the city.
Castle opening days, and the base people wrongly skip
The trap unique to this province is assuming the castles keep city hours. Most of them do not: Pedraza’s castle, home to the Zuloaga collection, opens only on a limited run of days and closes for stretches of winter; Coca is run by the town on guided visits at around €3 with fixed departure times; Cuéllar sells timed guided and theatrical tours rather than free entry; and Turégano’s Iglesia-Castillo de San Miguel is a working church inside a fortress with its own restricted timetable. Monday closures are common across the province, including the Palacio Real de La Granja and Riofrío, so a Monday castle day can leave you with three locked gates and 120 km on the clock. Check each site’s own calendar before you fix the driving route, and treat the last admission — often 60 to 90 minutes before closing — as the real deadline.
The base people wrongly skip is Real Sitio de San Ildefonso. Visitors treat La Granja as a two-hour stop, but staying there means the gardens at opening time before the coaches, dinner in the village, and Valsaín’s pine forest and the Guadarrama trails ten minutes away — all 11 km from the aqueduct on the CL-601, at 1,192 m where August nights are 4–5°C cooler than in the city. Zamarramala, 3 km north, is the other overlooked option, with the Vera Cruz church below and the best long view of the Alcázar from the Mirador de la Pradera de San Marcos side. Both work only with a car or a willingness to use the La Granja bus, but both are cheaper than the Casco Antiguo for the same standard of room.
