Basque Spain & Camino de Santiago - Discover Spain: Experience the Best of Spain - page 263

PINTXO.SANSE
( 902 443442, from abroad [phone]; www.pintxosanse.com ; course €115)
Just imagine how impressed your friends back home would be if the next time you
throw a dinner party you whip out a few San Sebastián-style pintxos . In associ-
ation with the tourist office, Pintxo.Sanse runs personalised three-hour courses (in
Spanish, English and French) in creating your own culinary masterpiece.

Cooking Courses

SAN SEBASTIÁN FOOD
( 634 759503; www.sansebastianfood.com ) San Sebastián Food runs an array of
pintxo tasting tours (from €55) and cookery courses (from €85) in and around the
city, as well as wine tastings at one of the most important private wine cellars in
Spain (€65) and day-long wine tasting tours to La Rioja (€185).

Pintxo Tour, Cooking Courses

SABORES DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
(Flavours of San Sebastián; tour €16; 11.30am Tue & Thu Jul & Aug) The tourist of-
fice runs the Sabores de San Sebastián, a two-hour tour of the city's best pintxo
haunts.

Pintxo Tours

Sleeping
Accommodation standards in San Sebastián are generally good, but prices are high
and availability in high season very tight. In fact, with the city's increasing popularity,
many of the better places are booked up for July and August months in advance.

PENSIÓN BELLAS ARTES €€
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( 943 47 49 05; www.pension-bellasartes.com ; Calle de Urbieta 64; s/d from €75/
95; ) To call this magnificent place a pensión is to do it something of a disser-
vice. Its spacious rooms (some with glassed-in balconies) with exposed stone walls
and excellent bathrooms should be the envy of many a more-expensive hotel. It
also has to be the friendliest hotel in town - the staff genuinely love their job and
city and want to help you get the most out of your visit.

Boutique Hotel

PENSIÓN AIDA €€
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Boutique Hotel