Valencian Community · Spain
Where to stay in Valencia
Valencia is a city in Valencian Community, Spain, home to about 841,000 people. This guide covers 7 aparthotels, 1 hotel and 1 apartment building in Valencia, with about 224 rooms between them.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 9
- Best months
- March to June and September to November
- Nearest airport
- VLC9 km · Valencia Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Madrid
- Language
- Basque, Catalan, Galician
About
About Valencia
Valencia, known officially in Valencian as València, is the capital and largest city of the Valencian Community and the province of the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea.
Valentia Edetanorum was established as a Roman colony in the second century BCE. In the early 8th century CE the Moors invaded, and Balansiyya became the capital of the Muslim Taifa of Valencia, thriving as a trading centre for paper, silk, ceramics, glass, and silver. With a brief interlude of Christian control in the 11th century under El Cid, the city remained in Muslim hands until the Christian Reconquista led by King Jaume I of Aragon in 1238, and was incorporated as a kingdom under the Crown of Aragon.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Valencia
See
- Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències
- El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
- L’Oceanogràfic
- L’Umbracle
- L'Àgora
- Pont de l'Assut de l'Or
- Catedral de Santa María de València
- Capella del Sant Calze
- Micalet
- Cripta arqueològica de la presó de Sant Vicent Màrtir
- Llotja de la Seda
- Església de Sant Nicolau
Do
One of Spain’s most spectacular fire festivals, Falles (Spanish: Fallas) can be best characterised as a fire-fireworks-gunpowder street party extravaganza. The festival draws up to two million visitors annually, and is listed as a UNESCO ‘intangible cultural heritage’. Its origins date to the Middle Ages when the city’s carpenters burned piles of scraps in the streets and plazas near their workshops on 19 March, the eve of the day of San Josep (Spanish: San José, or St. Joseph). In the 18th century, it became customary to fashion these piles of junk with papier mache into human figures and sculptures, called ninots (Valencian for 'dolls'), which were assembled to form larger fallas.
- Museu Faller de València
- Museu de l'Artista Faller de València
- Semana Santa Marinera
- Museo de la Semana Santa Marinera
- Festivitat Verge dels Desemparats
- Festa del Corpus Christi
- Casa de les Roques
- Fira de Juliol
- Els Focs de la Fira
- Nou d’Octubre
- Palau de la Música
- Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Valencia
9 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Barceló Valencia hotel | |
| Bob W Valencia Patraix apartment building | 42 |
| Valencia Carrer D'antonio Ferrandis aparthotel | 22 |
| Valencia Carrer D'Ernest Anastasio aparthotel | 20 |
| Valencia Carrer De Cadiz aparthotel | 27 |
| Valencia Carrer De Sant Jacint aparthotel | 31 |
| Valencia Carrer Del Pare Palau I Quer aparthotel | 28 |
| Valencia De Xàtiva aparthotel | 29 |
| Valencia Gran Via aparthotel | 25 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Which part of Valencia to stay in
Staying in or near Old Town means you will hardly need transport, unless you go to the beach.
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Where to stay
More hotels in Valencia
22 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel Reina Victoria (Valencia) | 1910 | 0.1 km |
| AC Hotel Colón Valencia by Marriott | 0.3 km | |
| City Garden B&B | 0.9 km | |
| Habitaciones Barra89 | 2.3 km | |
| Hospes Palau de La Mar Hotel Valencia | 0.8 km | |
| Hostal Moratin | 0.1 km | |
| Hotel Conqueridor | 0.5 km | |
| Hotel Dimar | 1.0 km | |
| Hotel Helen Berger | 0.4 km | |
| Hotel Vincci Mercat | 0.3 km | |
| Melia Plaza Valencia | 0.1 km | |
| NH Collection Valencia Colon | 0.4 km | |
| One Shot Mercat 09 | 0.3 km | |
| One Shot Palacio Reina Victoria 04 | 0.1 km | |
| Only YOU Hotel Valencia | 0.2 km | |
| Petit Palace El Remei Petit Palace Hotels | 0.9 km | |
| Petit Palace Ruzafa | 0.8 km | |
| Ramirez Flats & BAR | 1.5 km | |
| SH Valencia Palace | 1.4 km | |
| Sorolla Centro | 0.2 km | |
| Vincci Lys Hotel Valencia | 0.2 km | |
| Zalamera BnB | 0.6 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Valencia
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Valencia are March to June and September to November. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; October is the wettest, with about 63 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Valencia: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Valencia Airport (VLC), about 9.2 km from the city centre in a straight line; Castellón-Costa Azahar Airport (CDT, 91 km) and Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC, 133 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Streets in Valencia have two names, Valencian and Spanish, but most street signs are in Valencian only. Maps may list street names in Valencian or Spanish and rarely both, while addresses may be given in either language, which could create some confusion. Addresses in this guide are generally listed in Valencian. The city has begun changing some Franco-era street names to those commemorating other figures, especially women. By late 2017, about 50 streets had been renamed, with more planned; online mapping services are largely up-to-date but printed maps will likely not be.
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VLC · Valencia Airport
CDT · Castellón-Costa Azahar Airport
ALC · Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Valencia
Stay safe
Valencia is quite possibly among the safest cities in Spain and Europe. As with Madrid and Barcelona, streets are filled with people at all times, even deep into the night. Valencia also has a decent police presence. The only neighborhoods that may warrant extra precaution are Ciutat Jardí, El Cabanyal, and Aiora, in the east of the city. They are mostly deserted at night, but muggings are not unheard of. The city's railway stations and certain metro stations might attract beggars and drunkards, but simply saying no will be enough. The Falles celebrations attract thousands of people every year. Watch out for pickpockets.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Valencia
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
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Questions
Valencia: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Valencia?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Valencia are March to June and September to November. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; October is the wettest, with about 63 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Valencia?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Valencia Airport (VLC), about 9.2 km from the city centre in a straight line; Castellón-Costa Azahar Airport (CDT, 91 km) and Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC, 133 km) are also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Valencia?
1 place in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Valencia?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Valencia
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.