“Which coast should we choose for a week in June?” “Is this hotel really walkable to the beach?” “Where do locals actually eat in Seville?”
We hear questions like these every day, in English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian. After answering them for years, we realised the best answers were sitting in our heads and inboxes. Inside Spain is where we write them down.
Who we are
Jump2spain is part of the Spanish travel groups Viajes Para Ti and Exqui, which together have more than 20 years of experience selecting and negotiating hotels across Spain.
The team behind this blog works from our office in Reus, on the Costa Daurada. The name may ring a bell: many of you have probably landed at Reus Airport, often listed as “Barcelona-Reus”. We work in customer service, hotel selection, data and people, and part of our job is knowing which hotels really live up to their photos.
Meet the authors
We want you to know exactly who is behind every recommendation, so here is the team. For each of us you’ll see our name, the department we work in and the parts of Spain we know best. Our specialities don’t come from a guidebook: they come from trips we’ve made, places we keep going back to and the questions we answer for travellers every day. When you read an article, you’ll know whose experience you’re getting, and who to ask if you want to know more.
Customer Experience & Customer Service: the people you talk to before, during and after your holiday
- Emma Louise McDonnell: winter sun in the Canary Islands, a slow day in Seville and summer on the Costa Blanca
- Lina Benamar Haltout: family trips to Andalusia, Salou and city breaks in Madrid and Barcelona
- Zahra Labrasse: the Costa Brava, Andalusia and the rest of Catalonia
- Giovanna Feltrin: Andalusia, green Galicia and the historic cities of Salamanca, Mérida and Cáceres
- Eduardo Acosta: Galicia, Huelva and Spanish city breaks
- Debora Andrade: Andalusia, Huelva and the Costa de la Luz
- Bruno Vinícius Gomes: Andalusia, the Costa de la Luz and the Rías Baixas
Hotel Selection & Accounts: the people who choose the hotels before they reach your screen
- Vicky Solé: the Costa Brava, the Costa Daurada and the Catalan Pyrenees
- Eric Wiliquet: Costa Brava coves, the Costa Daurada from Cambrils to Salou, and the Canaries in winter
- Ricky Macedo Ribeiro: the Canary Islands, the Costa de Almería and Galicia
Data & People
- Eric Lehmann, Data Travel Analyst: the Canary Islands, Majorca and Andalusia, plus a clear idea of what travellers actually book
- Amanda Matthews, Human Resources: making the most of every school holiday and long weekend, from the Balearics to Northern Spain
What you’ll find here
- Hotels & destinations: where to stay and why, region by region. That includes the hotels we’d book ourselves, and why.
- Unique places: villages, routes and corners worth the detour, the kind you only find by asking someone who’s been.
- Our experiences: trips our team has actually made, told honestly, including what we’d do differently.
- Holidays & seasons: when to travel, local festivities and Spanish school holidays, so you know when the beaches fill up and when they don’t.
Our promise
Every article is signed by the person who wrote it, with their name and team. No anonymous content. If we recommend a place, it’s because one of us has been there or knows it well. If something isn’t worth it, we’ll tell you that too.
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Emma Louise McDonnell·Customer Experience