ME Madrid

Need to know

Rooms

192, including 12 suites.

Rates

€149–€280, excluding breakfast (€22 each) and tax (seven per cent).

Check-out

Noon, but you can leave later for a fee of €10 an hour. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

Facilities

Small gym, library, DVD/CD selection, free WiFi throughout, valet parking. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player, iPod dock, minibar, Aveda toiletries.

Poolside

There’s no pool at the hotel, but guests get discounted entrance to nearby Spa Excellence, which has hydrotherapy and plunge pools, as well as a Turkish bath and sauna.

Also

Pets are welcome for a charge of €50 a night. Non-smoking rooms are available on request.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

Decorated in sleek black with an orange accent, Midnight Rose has become one of Madrid’s most in-demand dining rooms. The accomplished international menu comes courtesy of Jaime Renedo, who trained at El Bulli. The platter of four miniature hamburgers – each with a different flavour – is a favourite. There’s a startlingly good-value three-course menu del dia available every lunchtime for €15, as well as a selection of sushi and traditional tapas served in the bar.

Dress code

Although you can wear whatever you like, the fashion-flaunting clientele will be expecting D+G.

Top table

To secure some romantic seclusion, ask to be seated in one of the booths lining the edge of the restaurant.

Last orders

In typically Spanish fashion, meals are served late, with lunch available between 1pm and 4pm and dinner served between 9pm and midnight. The Penthouse is usually open all evening, until 2am.

Room service

Meals, drinks and snacks can be brought to your boudoir round the clock.

Hotel bar

Open in summer, the Penthouse Bar & Terrace on the hotel rooftop is thronged by in-the-know Madrileños, with killer cocktails, cushion-loaded wooden sofas and sweeping views of the cityscape. Down on the ground floor, Midnight Rose has a suitably sultry bar area adorned with two wall-mounted bull’s heads – a nod to the hotel’s past as a matadors’ haunt.

Also worth knowing

Children

Cots are free for babies, but older kids will need their own room. Babysitting can be booked a day ahead for €20 an hour. There’s a children’s menu in the Midnight Rose restaurant.

Weddings

This hotel is suitable for weddings. More…

Smith Members offer

Free parking (normally €28 plus tax), cocktails for two with lunch or dinner, early check-in and late check-out (if available), and VIP entrance to the Penthouse Lounge

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