"A good size hotel located on a busy road junction about a 15-20 minute walk to the historic centre of Madrid, I was initially a bit concerned about traffic noise but needn’t have worried as I was in a room facing an internal courtyard. That said, it may have been different if I had been facing the road.
I went for a single room as I was on my own, and this was indeed a small room with a single bed pushed up against the wall on one side. It was fine for the couple of nights that I was there, but there was certainly no room to spread out, and there was no view at all with other hotel rooms all facing the window and the merest glimpse of sky if you managed to get your head at just the right angle. The room was all clean and tidy though, and facilities included a TV, safe and a (empty) ‘fridge although no mini-bar and no tea/coffee making facilities. There was a “welcome gift” consisting of a bottle of filtered water which I thought was taking the gift concept a bit far to be honest, when pretty much every other hotel supplies bottled mineral water as standard. Not only that but there were dire warnings about the fine you would get if your took the bottle away with you. The shower was decent enough, hot and powerful, but again very much on the small side and you had to be very careful not to knock the control valve when turning around. The air-con didn’t appear to work with no noticeable change in temperature regardless of what I set it to.
Breakfast was an entirely help yourself buffet affair, and covered most bases although it was certainly nothing to get excited about. Choices included cold meats, pastries, fruit, hot food and so on, but the hot food options were rather limited, small spicy chorizo type sausages instead of proper bangers and only scrambled eggs, not fried. Green beans and rice also seemed a very odd thing to serve at breakfast. The fruit was a very limited selection and served in small cardboard pots with a plastic lid which seemed very environmentally un-friendly, whilst the (very runny, plain) yoghurt was served from some sort of dispensing machine. A pancake maker was an unusual feature, although I did not try the results. Overall, it did the job, but I wouldn’t want to eat there for more than a couple of days.
Overall, a pretty good location, quiet and budget friendly, but not somewhere to go if you want to treat yourself."
