My advice would be not to take away a day from your Seville stay. There is so much to see and do and you could be somewhat restricted by what times of the day you would want to be walking around, given the temperatures you are likely to encounter!

Be sure to visit the Maria Luisa park and the Plaza de Espana. Also, don't miss the views from the top of the new 'parasols'.

I'd agree -3 days is barely enough for Sevilla. I don't even think you'll have time for a daytrip to Ronda (at the expense of Sevilla). I'd visit Cordoba over Ronda as a daytrip anytime.

I would go to Alfonso XIII over any other hotel in the world eyes wide shut. Alfonso XIII is one of the best hotels in Europe, hotel EME is just another trendy 5* hotel. Nevertheless, you might want to spend some time in the roof terrace of hotel EME, with Cathedral views, but for that you don't need to be spending the night. Both hotels are 10 mins walking one from the other.

With 3 days, I would concentrate in Seville. But if you really want a daytrip, Cordoba or Carmona (or even Italica) could be better options than Ronda.

Oh my gosh I can only dream about staying at Alfonso XIII. Recently renovated too.

I have only visited the roof top terrace of EME, but that visit was so dreadful that I would not consider staying there.

Queue to enter building, queue for lift, told where to sit by rude staff -despite there being no seats available, no bar list or prices. Dirty toilet with no paper and no lock.

Pretty sure drinks were going to be far too expensive to have them standing uncomfortably between seated customers tables. Gave up and left!

A vote for Hotel Alfonso XIII.

We were considering both and went with Alfonso XIII after reading this...looks lovely.

Thanks everyone! We decided on Hotel Alfonso XIII as well.

But we kind of made a small change- we are doing 2 nights in Seville and 1 night in Ronda at Parador de Ronda. I know many people have recommended Cordoba or other areas but we really like seeing natural beauty and decided visiting the beautiful white village towns and staying at least one night in a room with a beautiful view would be something we loved. We really didn't feel like going to Alhambra on this trip- plus it seems like the temp will be very hot in July...

I know more time in Seville would be great but really what we wanted to do was just experience the city and see some flamenco shows as well as go to visit the Cathedral (which we can walk to from the hotel I believe.) So the last day we figured we would just get up at our leisure and make the 2 hr drive to Ronda and just be able to be there to see a small town and just hang out with the beautiful views. We travel the next day to a place not far from Malaga...