The three star Vilar Rural de Cardona Hotel is a hotel which resembles a small village located on a hill dominating the valley in Vilar.

The main building of the hotel is in the middle of the village. It houses the common amenities such as the restaurant 'El Restaurant del Vilar' which has a buffet and grilled food and capacity for 130 people, coffee bar with two terraces (one is located in Vilar's main square and the other looks onto Cardona's castle as well as Vilar's kitchen garden and swimming pool), and four multi-purpose rooms all providing panoramic views and equipped for conferences with a capacity of 250 people. The other buildings house the 99 rooms of the Vilar Rural de Cardona The surroundings of the hotel are closely related to the natural surroundings of the area where there is a place to perform different kinds of activities, a farm and a pond with ducks and surrounded by gardens. There are two swimming pools, one for adults (which is climate-controlled) and another for children. The Vilar Rural de Cardona offers several treatments and massage programs, as well as a games room which is mainly for children's activities, reception are with souvenir shop, a viewpoint from where there is a view of the Vall Salina, Cardona's castle, Port del Compte, Cadí's mountain range and Montserrat, a sitting room in the attic which has sofas and a fireplace and offers board games and a television and a kitchen garden right in front of the swimming pool.

The Vilar Rural de Cardona mirrors the structure of a small village due to the way rooms are laid out. There are two-floor horizontal buildings in two streets with a total of 99 bedrooms. There are twin rooms, double rooms, triple rooms, rooms for four people, rooms for disabled people and larger rooms for families. Some of them have a small garden or terrace and all of them have a view of the surroundings, a bathroom, safety deposit box, satellite television, telephone, central heating and air-conditioning.