excl. Breakfast - HRS Rating: /10 - Hotel with 157 rooms located in the city centre, in ... more
front of the Palacio Real, the Plaza Espana and the Gran Via. Near the main access motorways allowing you to get to the Warner Bros Theme Park and other places of i...
Hotel Principe Pio is a first class property that is very well located to Plaza Espana and ... more
in front of the Palacio Real and Sabatini gardens Situated in the heart of Madrid this hotel is just a five minute walk to Gran Via Street the most important ...
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The Hotel Principe Pio in Madrid is a central modern property overlooking the Royal Palace ... more
and 200 metres from Principe Pio and Plaza Espana metro stations. The 155 guestrooms are decorated in light colours with patterned fabrics and wood furnishings....
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The Hotel Principe Pio in Madrid is a central modern property overlooking the Royal Palace ... more
and 200 metres from Principe Pio and Plaza Espana metro stations. The 155 guestrooms are decorated in light colours with patterned fabrics and wood furnishings....
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
This classic, continental-style hotel faces Madrid’s Royal Palace and the picturesque ... more
Sabatini Gardens, just off one of the city’s main squares – Plaza de España.Take in the fantastic views of one of the capital’s most prestigious districts from the ro...
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Advantages: Nice staff, clean, kettle in the room Disadvantages: The local area, rather expensive
This is yet another hotel stayed in when travelling with work.
It's a four star hotel (Ciao has it listed as a three star) and is located in the business district in Madrid. The Estadio Santiago Bernabeau, the home of Real Madrid football club is also very close by if you are interested in football. Public transport is very good-metro station and bus stop near by, the bus is one Euro into central Madrid and unlike London they have plenty of bus lanes and regular services-every 5 minutes. And no over-crowding or rubbish strewn everywhere!
The hotel itself is a typical sprawling 1980's concrete block. The surrounding area is a bit dodgy at night and opposite the hotel is a boarded up cinema. In fact the whole area is pretty much a concrete jungle and I would be careful with going out after dark as it's pretty deserted once ...
Advantages: Splendid architecture and surrounding nature Disadvantages: destinations are scattered and hard to reach by public transport
Many tourists who plan a trip to Madrid like to combine it with some excursions in the surrounding area. Nearby Toledo and Salamanca, for example, are places that most of us may have heard of, if only from an Ernest Hemingway novel or from Cervantes' famous account of Don Quixote de La Mancha. But this wouldn't be worth an FTC review, had I not some more exclusive places to tell you about.
On the third day at the latest, every first time visitor to Madrid will feel worn out from the dry climate in the Spanish capital. At an air humidity often below 30%, one longs for some fresh air and nature. The Province of Madrid, as well as surrounding Castilia is full of attractions worth a day trip.
So where to go? There are two very popular day trips for Madrid tourists:
1. To the cities of Salamanca and Avila in the province of Castilia ...
From_The_Continent 26.04.2001 (28.04.2001)
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Advantages: Top class all inclusive hotel Disadvantages: Isolated from other resorts
As you drive down the coastal road past all the resort hotels along the northern coast you'll begin to worry like in that Thomsons (?) advert on the TV that you're driving past all the best hotels! Then as you drive through the less developed towns along the road you'll worry that you're going to end up stuck in some shack in the middle of no-where! But as you turn off the coast road just before reaching the town (village?) of San Juan and into the Bahia Principe grounds you'll wonder what all the worrying was about! As with the other Bahia Principe Hotel in Mexico you first drive down the Hacienda, a short road lined with shops bars and restaurants, the one at San Juan has a hairdressers, a jewellers, a snack bar, a disco, a 'hard rock' bar, the reps building internet access (for footy scores of course!) and various shops selling ...
