Review Westin Palace Hotel Madrid
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The Westin Palace Hotel Madrid was once a palace. It is now an impressively elegant hotel, with plenty of helpful staff. It has an extremely grand entrance and reception, and the walls are painted fresco style with fake images of distant countryside and neighbouring buildings. The wall paintings give a spacious effect, although the reception is already huge, with several help desks. From the outside, the Westin Palace Hotel is a stylish building and its interior, I can only describe as like something out of a fairytale, complete with chandeliers and a golden glow from the lighting.
To find the main entrance of the Westin Palace Hotel, turn your back on the roundabout with the fountain so you are facing the hotel. Then walk up the street called San Jeronimo, keeping the hotel to your left. In 50 metres you'll come to the elegant and ornate entrance. It's very impressive, and when I visited, there was a very smart porter waiting at the main door. The Westin Palace Hotel Madrid is within walking distance of the Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums.
Take note that although the official name of the hotel is the 'Westin Palace Hotel' - the signage above it says 'Palace Hotel'.
Hotel Facilities
The Westin Palace Hotel has two restaurants: La Rotunda (also offers vegetarian options) and the Asia Gallery (specialising in Oriental dishes); café-bar, fitness centre with sauna, massage and solarium (open 24 hrs), hairdresser, clothes and jewellery shops, wi-fi internet, babysitters, travel agency, currency exchange, shuttle bus service to the airport and IFEMA trade fair centre, parking and car hire.
Facilities For The Disabled
On each floor there are two or three rooms especially adapted for disabled access. They feature wider doorways, larger baths, and hand railings. The furnishing of each room is set at a lower level so surfaces are easier to reach from a wheelchair.
Business Facilities
The Westin Palace Hotel Madrid is excellently equipped for business meetings. There are 18 meeting / banqueting rooms, the largest of which seats up to 800 people. Additional facilities are: projectors, photocopying, podiums, videos, screens, transcription service, simultaneous translation, hostesses, stenographers, sound system, secretary's, notice boards, computers with internet, and a range of refreshments from coffee to cocktails and working lunch.
Rooms
There are 417 guest rooms, decorated in a lush style - each with AC and CH, 47 suites, specially designed 'guest offices' for business travellers, and 1 exclusive 'Royal Suite' that Westin claim is one of the world's most luxurious, with sauna, Jacuzzi, butler service and pop-up TV with Bang and Olufsen sound system. The Westin Palace Hotel Madrid also has its own design in beds, called 'the Heavenly Bed'.
Hotel Location And Facilities
The Westin Palace Hotel Madrid is just across the road from the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, and two minutes walk from the Prado. It is within ten minutes walk of Gran Via, which is the main road through Madrid, full of theatres, bars, shops and restaurants. Downstairs there are two coffee bars, and a newsstand. Across the street there is a cash point.
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| The Westin Palace Hotel is right next to the Thyssen museum. Seen here as the red brick building |
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| There are several coffee bars next to the Westin Palace Hotel |
How To Get From The Airport To The Hotel
Via Taxi: A taxi from the airport should take about 30 minutes and cost €22.00 to €25.00 (including airport supplement), depending on much traffic there is, and assuming there is no excess baggage (that all baggage fits inside the boot and interior of the taxi).
Via 
Metro: You can take various metro routes directly from the airport to arrive at Sevilla metro near the Westin Palace Hotel Madrid. Line number 8 leaves from inside the airport between terminals 1 and 2. I've given the quickest route below with the stations where you need to change listed:
Metro: Mar de Cristal (Pink Line, L8) Then change and head for Goya (Brown Line, L4) Then change and head for Sevilla (Red Line, L2).
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 Westin Palace Hotel Madrid
In A Nutshell
The Westin Palace Hotel Madrid is a high class and elegant hotel in an excellent location with easy access to both the commercial centre of Madrid, and the best of the museums. It caters superbly for businesses, and tourists alike. There are very good disabled facilities too.
Westin Palace Hotel, Madrid - 5 Star
Plaza de las Cortes, 7
Metro: Sevilla (Red Line, L2) Plus ten minutes walk.
