Madrid
Hotel Ritz Madrid
Hotel Ritz Madrid
What it is: A luxurious palace hotel located near the heart of Madrid, which was built in 1910 to fulfill King Alfonso XIII's wishes.
The rooms: The 137 rooms and 30 suites, all with marble bathrooms, are individually decorated with antique furniture, embroidered sheets, and hand-woven rugs.
Amenities: Each room includes a telephone, satellite television, video library, minibar, and electronic safe, along with a fax machine and wireless Internet on request. The Ritz also includes a 24-hour gym and a Wellness Centre, where guests can enjoy spa treatments and a sauna. Children are also comfortably accommodated with cribs, a cartoon library, PlayStation, high chairs, changing mats, and bathrobes available.
Activities: Or the concierge can recommend various packages to explore Madrid and its surrounding areas, including visits to the Thyssen Museum, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Prado Museum or the majesty of Toledo and the gourmet and wine tour.
Details: 5 Plaza de la Lealtad, Madrid; from 573 euros for a classic single room.
Hotel Silken Puerta America
What it is: Known as an architects heaven, each one of the twelve floors of Puerta America was designed by one of todays top architects.
The rooms: Room sizes ranges from a Deluxe room to a Junior Suite Club to the Presidential suite. Every single room is unique, because every floor was designed by a different architect.
Amenities: Hotel guests can request babysitting and limousine service. All guests can use the swimming pool, garden, banquet rooms, shoeshine services, safe-deposit box, and Wi-Fi throughout the hotel.
Activities: Guests can enjoy nearby museums and festivities within the city of Madrid, and activities in the surrounding areas, like the gourmet food and wine tour, as well as the restaurants on hotel property. The concierge can help guests find activities for children.
Details: 41 Avenida de America, Madrid; from 106 euros for a Deluxe room.
