Review Carlton Hotel Madrid
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The Carlton Hotel Madrid has a stylish and modern interior with excellent information for tourists. There is also a restaurant with a difference, as it houses regular art exhibitions from both famous and new artists. They have facilities to cater for wedding banquets and the bride and groom can get free gifts, a free meal and free parking.
Hotel Facilities
Carlton Hotel Madrid offers its colourful restaurant 'La Galerie' where there are paintings exhibited all year. The restaurant is open from 13:00 - 15:30 and 15:50 - 23:00.
You'll also find it incorporates a café that's open from 07:30 - 23:30.
In addition there's a laundry service, car rental, parking, wi-fi internet, babysitting service and a shuttle bus to both the airport and the IFEMA trade fair centre. In reception you find a TV tuned to a city information channel, a weather forecast, and an interactive touch-screen tourist information point. There are also 2 computers in reception for guest use.
Business Facilities
The Carlton Hotel Madrid has 3 meeting rooms and the largest can hold up to 80 people. The hotel has an excellent supply of equipment for meetings and conferences, including: projectors, photocopying service, podiums, video, screens, transcription service, simultaneous translation, hostesses, stenographer, sound system, notice boards, bi-lingual secretary and computers.
If you want to plan a business / social event, the hotel will cater for business meals, working lunches, coffee breaks and cocktails.
Rooms
There are 112 rooms at the Carlton Hotel Madrid, and every one has AC, phone, radio, music, minibar, safe, interactive satellite TV and a full bathroom with a hair dryer.
External rooms have a view onto the busy tree-lined Paseo de las Delicias road. The rooms have a clean and neat feel and have comfortable modern furniture.
Hotel Location And Facilities
The Carlton Hotel Madrid is 10 minutes walk from the Atocha train station, and Reina Sofia museum in an area that is predominantly residential, with a few shops, banks and bars. When I walked up Paseo de las Delicias there were people selling flowers too.
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| The Paseo De Las Delicias | You Can Find Flower Sellers Near The Carlton Hotel Madrid |
Opposite the hotel you'll find a bank, post box, a café-bar and a jewellery shop. And if you should feel hungry at any time, there's a branch of Open Cor 24 hour supermarket 50 metres away.
The 10 minute walk towards Atocha station brings you closer to the city centre, which is another 10 minutes walk (or metro ride) up the hill of Calle Atocha.
How To Get From The Airport To The Hotel
Via Taxi: A taxi from the airport should take about half an hour and cost between €22.00 and €25.00 (including airport supplement), depending on how much traffic there is, and assuming that you haven't got excess baggage (that it all fits inside the boot and interior of the taxi).
Via 
Metro: You can take various metro routes directly from the airport to arrive at Palos de Frontera metro near the Carlton Hotel Madrid. Line number 8 leaves from inside the airport between terminals 1 and 2. The quickest route is written below with the stations where you need to change listed:
Metro: Columbia (Pink Line, L8) Then change and head for Principe de Vergara (Purple Line, L9). Then take the line to Sol (Red Line, L2), then the line to Palos de la Frontera (Yellow Line, L3).
Via Bus: You can take a red EMT public bus from the airport to Avenida America. The number bus that takes this route is the 115. From there it's quicker to change to the metro.
Reservations
Reservation Information For The Carlton Hotel Madrid
In A Nutshell
The Carlton Hotel Madrid is excellent value for money for a 4 star hotel. It is clean and modern inside and has some unique and useful features for tourists, in the form of the interactive information screen. The hotel caters well for businesses too, and is only a short metro journey away from the commercial centre of Madrid.
Carlton Hotel Madrid - 4 Star
Paseo de Las Delicias, 26
Metro: Palos de Frontera (Yellow Line, L3) Plus 6 minutes walk.
