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Hospes Madrid

Madrid, Spain

Right beside the Puerta de Alcalá and on the northwest corner of Retiro Park, you won’t find a better placed boutique hotel in the Spanish capital than Hospes Madrid. Near the upmarket Barrio de Salamanca and nested in a network of boutique-rich streets, the hotel boasts towering ceilings, oversize wooden doors, and moody modern lighting. You come for the location, but you stay for the style.

Need to know

• Rooms 41, including six suites.
• Rates Double rooms from AU$232.84 (€177), excluding tax at 10 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€177) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates exclude breakfast (€22) .
• Facilities Spa with Jacuzzi, hammam, gym, and hair salon, library, free WiFi throughout, valet parking (€35 a day, plus VAT). In rooms: flatscreen TV, minibar, Korres toiletries.
• Poolside The Bodyna Spa has a slender, white-tiled hydrotherapy pool, bathed in soothing candlelight.
• Check-out Midday. Later check-out depends on availability.
• Children Cots are available free; extra beds for older children are €100 a night (plus VAT). Babysitting costs around €15 an hour and should be requested when booking. The hotel will also prepare packed lunches and heat milk/food on request.

Food and drink at Hospes Madrid

• Hotel restaurant One of the stars in Madrid’s culinary sky, the hotel’s award-winning Senzone restaurant on the ground floor is a striking modernist space dominated by bright whites and charcoal tones. There’s an adjacent tapas bar too.
• Dress code Senzone’s definitely a venue for a wear-a-jacket dining – dress to impress.
• Top table In the summertime, you can fight the Madrid who’s who brigade for a street-side spot at the tapas bar. There’s no preferable table in Senzone, but up in the lounge bar there are a few high tables for two that overlook the hotel’s atrium.
• Last orders Dinner is available until the kitchen closes at 10.30pm. The Cafeteria Senzone serves drinks until 11pm.
• Room service 24-hours.
• Hotel bar The hotel’s mezzanine lounge is an elegant oak-panelled affair, with leather Chesterfields, overhanging art deco reading lamps and modern art on the walls. You can also take drinks outside on the cosy wooden patio.

Hospes Madrid 3 Plaza de la Independencia, Madrid, 28001