HotelChatter - Madrid

A Hotel For Plants? Now We've Heard It All

ASchechter — 2011-07-28T09:08:58-05:00

We suppose we should have seen this coming. After all, if you can book a massage for your dog, and make use of pet loyalty programs, then it's really no surprise that a shopping mall in Madrid is now offering a hotel for plants.

Hotel Para Plantas, which had exceeded its bandwidth limit when we tried to visit its site, is located inside the Isla Azul shopping center, located off the M-40 highway. Not too far away is the Egido Via Lusitana, with rates starting at €46. So even if you prefer to ride with your cacti on the airplane, you can at least have separate sleeping quarters once you land in Madrid.

Miley Cyrus Photo Fakery at the Westin Palace Madrid

juliana — 2010-12-03T08:45:47-05:00

We feel pretty pervy even looking at this photo but the Internet was abuzz yesterday that Disney star Miley Cyrus was caught in her first nude photo scandal.

Sure, she's 18 now and her recent performances have been so sexually charged that this might not seem surprising but for those of you are still clinging to the idea that Hannah Montana is still pure, you will be relieved to hear that the photo is a fake.

And what's really interesting is that whoever faked it went to great lengths to rent a room at the Westin Palace Madrid to do so.

The View From This Madrid Ibis is Ibusted

Jenna — 2009-07-23T12:31:22-05:00

<![CDATA[You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/ibismadridroof.jpg" class="top"> Things to see in Madrid: see a game at Bernabeu Stadium.

American Passports Earn Discounts at the ME Madrid Hotel

jennm — 2009-01-07T09:05:44-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/11725/madridme.jpg" class="top">You know how in Europe various attractions and monuments give discounts to holders of European passports? Kind of annoying, isnt it? Well finally, flashing your U.S. passport will get you something other than a dirty look. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1868899,00.html"Time</a>s got the scoop on the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Me+Hotel+Madrid/ian/117893">ME Madrid Reina Victoria</a>, where an American passport gets you 20 percent off room rates when you book at least three nights, plus a bottle of cava and strawberries en suite, free breakfast, and 50 percent off dinner for two at the hotels Midnight Rose restaurant. Rates start at about $240, and the offer is good through March, which might not be warm enough to take advantage of The Penthouse, the hotels Rande-and-Scott-Gerber-helmed

Madrid Hotel Makes Good Use of Your Left-Behind Reading Material

jennm — 2009-01-06T09:15:44-05:00

It looks like hotels' obsession with books will definitely continue in 2009. The latest is from the Gran Hotel Conde Duque, a hotel in downtown Madrid, which has started a library out of guests’ left-behind books--a collection that has turned out to be so diverse it includes Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons and a Spanish translation of the Book of Mormon. (How’s that for some light vacation reading?)

The fact that this hotel is starting an orphaned books club definitely makes up for their lack of stylish room decor. Check out that bedspread and headboard, eee!