Top 10: the best luxury hotels in Madrid
The best luxury hotels in Madrid, including the best for gourmet dining, luxurious rooms with city views, rooftop bars and pampering spas, in central Madrid near Gran Vía, the Prado, Malasaña, Plaza Mayor and Retiro Park.
Hotel Ritz Madrid
Madrid, Spain
9Telegraph expert rating
Expect classic luxury at every turn at Hotel Ritz Madrid. Sumptuous carpets made down the road at the Royal Tapestry Factory ensure that every step you take is in cushioned comfort. Some rooms have balconies overlooking the square or the hotel’s gardens, others have chandeliers and silk canopies over the bed, and most are furnished with antiques and decorated with original artworks. The Goya restaurant is one of the best in the city. For a decadent treat, book in for the legendary Sunday brunch. Read expert review From £252per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
Westin Palace
Madrid, Spain
9Telegraph expert rating
Madrid’s Westin Palace, opposite the Prado, brings traditional glamour and sumptuous comfort to the heart of the Spanish capital. This is one of those hotels where you step through the door and enter a different world. La Rotonda, as the restaurant and lounge area under an ornate stained-glass dome is called, is a circle of elegance where locals and guests meet for coffee and drinks at all times of day. There is a good gym and sauna too. Classically decorated rooms have marble bathrooms. Sunday brunch sometimes has an opera performance thrown in. Read expert review From £199per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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The Principal Madrid
Madrid, Spain
8Telegraph expert rating
The Principal is popular with a media and fashion crowd, as well as anyone who wants to be able to walk everywhere. With comfortable rooms and a calm colour scheme, it is a handy haven in the heart of the city and the chic roof terrace is one of the most coveted spots in Madrid for a drink in summer. There’s also a sauna and small gym. Some rooms have small balconies. All have more or less the same elegant grey décor and sleek bathrooms with massage-jet showers. A two-Michelin-starred chef oversees the restaurant. Read expert review From £184per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Hotel Único Madrid
Madrid, Spain
8Telegraph expert rating
It is all about good design and great service with no daft gimmicks at this hotel housed in an elegant 19th-century building, which is a bit of a relief these days. With its swirling black and white mosaic floors combining Bardiglio, Carrara and Thassos marble and dramatic red sculpture hanging in the stairwell, the Único is nothing if not dramatic. Massages and beauty treatments are available in luxe treatment rooms, but there is no spa. The library looks like a private club, and the garden is a bit of an oasis from the frenetic pace of Madrid. Read expert review From £200per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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NH Collection Madrid Suecia
Madrid, Spain
9Telegraph expert rating
The hotel is right in the centre of Madrid, on a side street off the Gran Vía. It dates back to the Fifties (when it was known as the Suecia), and was a favourite haunt of Ernest Hemingway. Che Guevara stayed there too.. The dimly-lit Hemingway bar with scarlet velvet banquettes is definitely a place to slither off a stool after one too many Daquiris. There’s also a fun oyster bar: try the fried aubergine with smoked tuna strips, coca flatbread topped with Idiazábal cheese, or cecina air-dried beef. Some on the upper floors have large terraces. Read expert review From £139per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Hotel Barceló Torre de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
8Telegraph expert rating
The perky design at the five-star Barceló Torre de Madrid has made it an instant hit with fashionistas and creatives. Top Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created fresh, sensual interiors using a palette of jewel and berry shades with gold details and sweeping curves. The attractive steel indoor pool has great views and a sauna. Rooms and suites have wooden floors and big windows, many with spectacular views. The Somos restaurant serves the likes of teriyaki Ibérico pork cheeks, and the bar has a dangerous cocktail list. Read expert review From £181per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Hotel Palacio Del Retiro
Madrid, Spain
8Telegraph expert rating
The five-star Palacio del Retiro is an elegantly-restored boutique hotel where period details contrast with contemporary design. This is one of the most desirable places to stay in the city, opposite the Retiro park and close to the major museums and best shops in the smartest area of Madrid. The 50 rooms and suites, many with views across the park, are all a good size and combine period architectural details such as cornicing and marble fireplaces with sleek contemporary fabrics and furniture and wooden floors. The ones on the second and third floors are the grandest and most spacious, with the Presidential Suite occupying the former library, which has mahogony-panelled walls. Read expert review From £223per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
Gran Meliá Palacio de los Duques
Madrid, Spain
9Telegraph expert rating
The hotel occupies the site of the Santo Domingo convent and the 19th-century palace of the Dukes of Ega and Villahermosa. Although the building has been comprehensively revamped, original features remain. There is a Velázquez theme throughout the hotel with large reproductions of the great master’s paintings and the colour scheme is inspired by the tones of his palette, with shimmery fabrics in hues of ochre, indigo and maroon. The hotel is on a quiet street right in the centre, with the Teatro Real opera house and Opera metro station a minute's walk down the hill. The Royal Palace is a five-minute walk away. Read expert review From £251per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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URSO Hotel & Spa
Madrid, Spain
8Telegraph expert rating
The Urso is a five-star boutique a few minutes’ walk from the oh-so-trendy neighbourhoods of Malasaña. Period features include the fabulous mahogany lift and the stained-glass windows on the staircase. The Natura Bissé spa at the Urso is everything an urban spa should be: lolling in the seven-metre hydromassage pool feels good after shopping, while the sauna is good for a quick detox. Rooms are flooded with natural light from big windows. The Table By restaurant is taken over by a different establishment each month – with several Michelin stars between them. Read expert review From £139per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Hotel Urban Madrid
Madrid, Spain
8Telegraph expert rating
What do you get when you cross a visionary Art Deco building with modish interiors and millions of pounds worth of Papua New Guinean art? Answer: one of the most interesting hotels in Madrid right now. As well as a restaurant and bar, the hotel has a fabulous rooftop swimming pool with flaming Cenia marble floor, and a solarium, both reachable via a staircase with glittering gold mosaic walls. The main restaurant here is Europa Decó. Think iguana-textured leather chairs, and a chimney made of gold leaf. Dishes on the menu include hake and peas, and roast rack of lamb with creamy saffron rice. Read expert review From £143per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
