Need to know
Rooms
32, including four suites.
Check–Out
Check-in is from 3pm and check-out is at noon. Late check-out is free until 1pm, €25 until 3pm, €50 until 6pm and €75 until 8:30pm, subject to availability. Early Check-in is free, also subject to availability.
More details
Rates don’t generally include the generous à la carte breakfasts, which start from €11 – the sumptuous spread includes fresh fruit, Galician country bread, Iberian ham and home-made jams.
Also
Hurrah for full-sized bath products. The ones at Noa were made bespoke to capture the scent of sea breezes and pine from this section of Spain’s craggy coastline.
At the hotel
Valet parking, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV with Chromecast, heated floors, plug adaptors, air-conditioning, tea, coffee and bespoke eco-friendly bath products.
Our favourite rooms
All the rooms are glass-fronted and sea-facing with soaking bath tubs, so you can’t really go wrong. However, we’d opt for a room on an upper floor for slightly superior ocean vistas, like the Noa Bath Room, which has a free-standing bath tub right next to the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Poolside
The crown jewel is the rooftop, where the sweeping views take in the sea, the Santa Cruz castle and the port of A Coruña. In the summer months, you could spend all day here, moving from infinity-edged saltwater swimming pool to sunlounger to Jacuzzi. The pool is open from late April to October.
Spa
There's no spa as such, but their treatment menu is thorough – choose from lymphatic-drainage, hot-stone, sports or Thai massages, mud-therapy treatments or youth-restoring facials.
Packing tips
Lycra for hitting the gym and jogging on the seaside promenade, linen for balmy evenings on the terrace.
Also
The Classic Room and one Superior Classic Room are adapted for wheelchair users.
Pet‐friendly
Small dogs under 15kg are welcome in ground-floor rooms for a charge of €35 a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in A Coruña.
Children
All ages are welcome but, other than a children’s menu in the restaurant, little Smiths aren’t particularly catered to. Families should opt for the more spacious third-floor suites with a sofa bed.
Sustainability efforts
Noa keeps its eco-footprint dainty by using renewable geothermal energy and eco-friendly bath products, reducing plastic and paper waste, recycling and sourcing hyper-local meat, fish and produce. Noa Boutique Hotel also donates to nearby biosphere reserve Mariñas Coruñesas e Terras do Mandeo.