Madrid, Spain

Casa Faraona

Price per night from$354.36

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR305.24), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Flamenco-laced flamboyance

Setting

Retiro Park perch

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All-singing, all-dancing boutique hotel Casa Faraona is in the cultural heart of Madrid. Its collection of artwork-adorned residences sets the stage for (sangría- and) stroll-induced siestas, but an in-house flamenco tablao (club) ups the ante for evenings of dramatic and colourful performances. The city is on your doorstep, thanks to a stellar Salamanca locale, but within its refined embrace, introductions to regional design, traditions and dining bring the house down. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Eight suites.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible on request, subject to availability and an extra charge.

More details

Rates at Casa Faraona usually exclude breakfast, which is available at next-door hotel Hospes Puerta de Alcalá for €30 each.

Also

Unfortunately, the residences at Casa Faraona aren’t suitable if you have limited mobility.

At the hotel

Flamenco club (extra charge) and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Bluetooth speaker, record player, air-conditioning, tea- and coffee-making kit, minibar, bathrobes, slippers and Eight & Bob bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The Jouin Manku-styled interiors spotlight exposed brick walls, botanical murals and Dali-inspired paintings. Stays in the Superior Suite Residence heat up thanks to its infra-red sauna; or the cherry on top of this boutique hotel is its Penthouse Suite Residence, which is also decked out with a sprawling living room and two bathrooms, one of which flaunts an egg-shaped bath tub.

Packing tips

Your castanets and polka dots — this flamenco-loving stay will have you itching to look the part.

Also

Staff can arrange specialist spa treatments at next-door wellness centre Six Harmonies.

Children

Welcome, but there's no specific kit. The two-bedroom Duplex Suite Residence sleeps four.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Both restaurants have tables on Plaza de la Independencia, giving you front-row seats to the park, triumphal arch and Salamanca streets.

Dress Code

Plaza de la Independencia’s run of restaurants is your catwalk to show off your vintage finds from El Rastro or designer buys from Salamanca’s boutiques.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no in-house dining option at this collection of residences, but the group behind Casa Faraona have two restaurants downstairs on Plaza de la Independencia. The Philippe Starcke-designed, street-set terrace at Ramses overlooks Puerta de Alcalá and glimpses Retiro Park, and its modern European menus keep locals and visitors coming back for seconds. Tile-clad Patio de Leones is a refined take on a traditional tavern, with classic tapas, made-in-Spain cocktails and a spirited atmosphere.

Hotel bar

Less a formal bar, and more a traditional tablao or café cantante (singing café), Flamenco de Leones sets the stage for evenings of moving music, singing, dancing and enviable outfits. You can sip drinks or enjoy dinner during this storied form of entertainment, and if you’re feeling confident, sign up with the glossy-haired flamenco director for a private class. 

Last orders

Breakfast is served at next-door hotel Hospes Puerta de Alcalá, from 7.30am to 10.30am. In true Spanish style, Ramses opens from noon to 1am, and Patio de Leones serves from noon until 2am (2.30am on weekends).

Location

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Address
Casa Faraona
Plaza de la Independencia 4
Madrid
28001
Spain

Casa Faraona overlooks Puerta de Alcalá on the northwest corner of Retiro Park, just south of swish ‘hood Salamanca in Madrid.

Planes

Madrid–Barajas Airport is a 20-minute drive away, and you can easily catch a cab or order one via Uber to zip you into the city.

Trains

Regional routes from Spanish hubs, such as Barcelona and Seville, plus day-trip-destinations Toledo and El Escorial call at the city’s Atocha station, which is a five-minute drive from the hotel. The metro’s line two runs through Retiro station, a few minutes’ walk away.

Automobiles

Ditch the wheels and opt for walking, public transport or taxis instead. The hotel doesn’t have parking, so if you choose to drive, you’ll have to scout out public spaces.

Worth getting out of bed for

Step counts often soar on a city break, but Casa Faraona’s advantageous setting puts you within easy reach of Madrid’s big hitters. Marvel at musical storytelling at the hotel’s Flamenco de Leones, where you can book in for drinks or dinner with live performances. You overlook Puerta de Alcalá and Retiro Park, where hand-in-hand strolls around its manicured grounds can conclude with a row around the lake. You’ll find more embracing verdant views at the Real Jardín Botánico, or swap nature for naturalism at the city’s cultural trifecta (and three national museums): El Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza and Reina Sofía. 

Scope out designer brands in Salamanca, late nights in La Latina and people-watching-primed terrazas in Malasaña. And nearby Atocha station is your gateway to Toledo or El Escorial for history-steeped days out. 

Local restaurants

Teleport to Tulum for the night at Bakan, a modern Mexican restaurant with traditional corn tortillas, mezcal cocktails and fight-for-the-last-bite sharing plates. Cool kids can’t stay away from Casa Canito’s tonkatsu beef sandwiches and Spanish bites, which are expertly paired with natural wines. Jurucha is a simple — but well-loved — tapas bar with Basque-style pintxos and local cañas; an apt way to take stock between browsing in boutiques. 

Local cafés

Find outfit inspiration from the neighbourhood’s hipsters at Etual Café, where cafés con leche and doorstop-sized slices of banana bread fuel afternoons along Madrid’s cultural parade. Bucólico Café beckons for lingering brunches of speciality brews and wholesome, healthy plates in a farmhouse-inspired space.

Local bars

Gota pulls out all the stops for date night: spinning vinyl are your soundtrack for glasses of organic fizz and a decadent cheesecake (with two spoons) in a candlelit corner. Tap into the tradition of la hora de vermut (vermouth o’clock) at convention-keeping La Dolores, with its fortified wines and acetic gildas.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this bold boutique hotel in Spain and unpacked their flamenco dresses and bottles of vermut, a full account of their cultural break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Casa Faraona in Madrid… 

Your hosts at Casa Faraona know how to put on a show, quite literally at their café cantante Flamenco de Leones. Here, evenings are marked by the emotional warbles of skilled singers, rhythmic clapping, castanet tapping and skirt-swishing dancing. 

Stays in Faraona’s sprawling residences are considerably less theatrical — though there’s a certain drama to the murals, high ceilings and spacious living areas. For one, spells in some of the suites’ Himalayan-salt saunas are low-tempo remedies to the on-the-go nature of city breaks, as are warm-hued interiors and your next-to-Retiro setting. 

But the pace in Madrid is slower than other capitals: you might stroll around the park or pop into one of its world-class museums, before whiling away an afternoon at a streetside terrace or cosy taberna. The deep-rooted ‘what’s the rush’ ethos prevails, so settle in for a vermut, some pinchos and no onward agenda. Casa Faraona waits for everyone. 

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