Planning a holiday in Spain?  Need Accommodation on the fly or in advance?

In the Spring of 2012, we arrived for our 8 day Holiday in Spain (A Scoping Trip before our actual move to Spain).  This was our trip to compare what we have seen on-line to “real” life.  We wanted to choose where we were going to live in Spain.  We had quite a bit of ground to cover and came prepared with our criteria.  We only made a few advance plans:

1. Our flights in/out of Madrid
2. A rental car for 8 days
3. 1 nights accommodation in Madrid, so we could recoup the day of arrival. Continue reading →