The left-hander, a hundred metres from the door · photo by Martin Ugalde, published by the hotel
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Mundaka · Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve
A hundred metres from the best left-hander in Europe, since 1995
Eco-Hotel Mundaka came out of the restoration of a historic building in the centre of the old fishing village. It is a family project, with nineteen rooms, reception open around the clock and covered parking, three hundred metres from the beach.
Pets are welcome, there is a lift, and breakfast is an organic buffet with what the kitchen garden grows.
- 19rooms: single, double, triple and family
- 100 mfrom the wave; 300 m from Laidatxu beach
- 1995open, in a restored historic building
- 4.3★from 271 reviews on Google
- 24 hreception, every day of the year
- 2009in the Basque Government's tourism quality programme
Nineteen rooms, four types
Single, double, triple and family. Every one of them has a private bathroom with a hairdryer, satellite television, a telephone, free wi-fi and heating. The furniture was renewed in 2011 and the textiles in 2014 and 2015; the rooms facing the street have double glazing so you hear nothing.
Under the roof
The top-floor rooms keep the sloping wooden ceiling.
Two beds
A reading light on each side, a telephone and a wooden floor.
The larger ones
A sofa, a television and a separate corner to sit in.
The bathroom
With the wave etched on the screen. Low-flow fittings, like everything here.
What there is in the house
All of this is included or available to anyone staying.
- 24-hour reception
- Organic buffet breakfast
- Organic kitchen garden
- Covered parking
- Our own surf school
- Café and garden
- Italian ice cream · in season
- Children's play area
- Two meeting rooms
- Lift
- Free wi-fi and heating
- Pets welcome
"Eco" here is not a label
It is a list of concrete things done in the house, and two certificates that have to be renewed.
- Paints carrying the EU Ecolabel
- Flow restrictors on every shower and tap
- Smart low-consumption cisterns
- Polluting chemicals cut to a minimum
- Natural air fresheners, nothing synthetic
- 100 % recycled paper
- Breakfast with what the hotel's kitchen garden grows
The wave, and who teaches you
The Mundaka left-hander is held to be the best in Europe and one of the ten best in the world. It breaks a hundred metres from the hotel.
Its height, its surfable length and its breaking angle make it a perfect wave for advanced surfers. Study by the AZTI Tecnalia technology centre
The surf school belongs to the hotel. Lessons are given by Mike Dobos, a qualified American instructor with more than twenty-eight years behind him. From eight years old and for every level: board, wetsuit, insurance and certificate are included. You only need to be able to swim.
Getting here
Reception is open twenty-four hours, so arrival time is never a problem.
- Address
- Florentino Larrinaga Kalea, 9
48360 Mundaka (Bizkaia), Spain
Directions from wherever you are - By car
- A-8 motorway to Amorebieta-Etxano, then the BI-635 towards Gernika and the BI-2235 from Gernika to Bermeo. 47 km from Bilbao, about 54 minutes. There is covered parking at the hotel. See the driving route
- By bus
- Bizkaibus line A3515 (Bilbao – Amorebieta/Etxano – Gernika – Bermeo), from Hurtado de Amezaga street, next to Abando station. Timetables: +34 902 22 22 65
- By train
- From Atxuri station in Bilbao, every 30 minutes (hourly at weekends). It takes 1 h 11 min. Bring the ticket and we take 5 % off. Euskotren timetables
- By plane
- Bilbao airport is 25 km away, about 30 minutes by car. Route from the airport