Reply To: Madrid hotel recommendation please

[Pangolin]

Scott wrote:

If you can tear yourself away from the chains with their status benefits, I’ve stayed in this very nice ’boutique’ hotel: https://www.7islashotel.com/es/

Central location tucked just off Gran Via, pleasant lobby/bar area, and really nice breakfasts in a country where breakfast isn’t a big thing.

To me, ’boutique’ hotel means no desk to work at. The last boutique hotel I stayed at had a single socket in the main room and just one more in the bathroom. Since my phone was plugged into the single socket in the bedroom, I had to charge my Apple Watch overnight by plugging it into the other socket above the toilet and resting the watch on the cistern. In the morning I woke to find my brand new Apple Watch had fallen off the toilet, landed on the hard floor and cracked the screen 🙁

I’m happy to stick with the chain hotels.