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Meliá Castilla, Madrid
Close to Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu stadium, a few metres from the Paseo de la
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Castellana, 15 minutes from the airport and strategically located in the heart of the city-centre, the Meliá Castilla is surrounded by shopping districts – you in somet...
Meliá Castilla, Madrid
Close to Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu stadium, a few metres from the Paseo de la
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Castellana, 15 minutes from the airport and strategically located in the heart of the city-centre, the Meliá Castilla is surrounded by shopping districts ? you in something of an idyllic locale. The Meliá Castilla hotel has 916 comfortable rooms and suites on its fifteen floors, decorated in a classical contemporary style and with all the comforts and services to satisfy every need, making it the favourite hotel for businessmen and women as well as foreign tourists visiting Madrid. All the rooms are completely soundproof and have the latest technology: interactive satellite TV, air-conditioning with individual remote control, direct-dial telephone with voicemail, sockets for fax and modem, broadband Internet, bathroom, electronic safe with room for a computer, minibar, 24 hour room service and the unique pillow menu, a key factor to getting a good night's sleep. And everything is close at hand.
Advantages: Excellent decor, great Regents Park location - within 2 mins walk of 2 tube stations Disadvantages: 4 star decor not matched by corresponding room size
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One very good thing about the Melia White House is that it is marked on maps such as the London A to Z. Once you cross the major road from the tube stations it's very heard to miss, there are pedestrian crossings which make this easier.
The lobby to the Melia White House instantly says 4 star. Although it has a low roof the decor and panelling is impressive.
Checking in you suddenly realize that this hotel has teleported in from Madrid. The entire check in staff is Spanish, illustrating the hotel's ownership (the Spanish Sol Group). Finding a receptionist who speaks good English is a roll of the dice each visit. Generally service is good. We arrived at 1pm on a Saturday and no rooms were ready. When we got a room on our return around 4pm our bags took 20 minutes to follow us up and the porter immediately left without...
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Advantages: Central madrid and very good service Disadvantages: Can't think of any
...This hotel is fantastic....but it should be at the price! I paid Euros 280 for a double bedded room with single occupancy on July 22nd. The hotel claims to be central and it is if Central means the terminal for the bus from the airport! But actually it is about two miles North of the city centre so be prepared to take a taxi for the real centre of Madrid from the hotel. I arrived at Madrid Barajas airport and decided to take a taxi. There is a bus advertised that stops outside the hotel but I am lazy! However I was ripped off! Officially it should cost about 15 Euros from the airport. I know because a colleague of mine took the same ride only one day earlier. My cab driver was very good at talking about my family, where I lived, have I ever been to Spain etc etc. When we arrived he was pointing out a good restaurant and when I...
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Advantages: close to the beach Disadvantages: service poor.
...My wife and I have just spent a week at the Castilla and have returned home very disappointed with the hotel itself and the concrete jungle in which it resides. To start with the pluses: The hotel is spotlessly clean - though we did find in our room a cockroach of the sort of proportions which might have got it some extra work in the film "Alien". The cleaning staff and indeed all the female staff working in the hotel were helpful and efficient, pleasant to talk to and always wore a smile. Anything else? hmmm the lifts worked!
None of the male staff measured up to the female. Surly, unhelpful and distant are the kindest words I can find.
The food was poor - it was never served warm. Maybe it is a Spanish tradition to serve mashed potato and vegetables cold. If so it is not one that I have encountered before. The shops in the area...
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Sol Meliá is a leading hotel company in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. The company provides more than 350 hotels in 30 countries under its Meliá Hotels, TRYP Hotels, Sol Hotels and Paradisus Resorts brands.
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