Madrid hotels in Retiro

Cons: Take the following review with a grain of salt. I am a young person who grew up poor and wanted, for once, the "Ritz" experience: While I am a big fan of trying new things, I have to say that the Ritz experience just wasn't for me. I don't mean to be crass, but if I had a fistful of fives - I can think of a few places I'd rather spend it than tipping the endless stream of people trying to help me with things. Additionally, there is a little doll that you place on your door if you do not wish to be disturbed. Note: Don't leave the doll up for very long, because if you do, they will call your room until you answer so that they can ask when the next time they can come in your room is. I nap maybe... 2-3 times per year at most, and I am severely irritated that they felt the need to call during my biannual nap to ask me when they can come in my room. Instead of changing my sheets 3X per day, how about leaving me the hell alone when I have my DO NOT DISTURB DOLL up? Perhaps I am not cut out for the lifestyle, but I don't want/need people treating me like a helpless child, yet simultaneously making me feel "lower" than they are. Every time I offered a "no thanks, I don't need a taxi, I'm walking" or walked into the hotel from the street, I received these weird looks of incredulity/disdain that I didn't particularly care for. When I brought my own luggage downstairs on checkout I absolutely horrified the front desk attendant. Why the need to treat people like this? I have no idea. My recommendation? Take the $500 per night you'd spend here for the standard room and split it in half. Take $250 / night to spend on some other hotel's suite. Take the other $250 and stick it back in your pocket.

Cons: Room furnishings and hall carpets need refreshing

Cons: We reserved a room with breakfast thru 'get a room' and surprised to see that it was not a buffet breakfast!!! for getting the buffet breakfast we needed to add some more money.... Not all the recommendations of the concierges were good, sometimes it seemed like they recommended places that they had personal interests/connections in.

Cons: The elevator is broken and has no door. The room is small and the bathroom stinks. Definitely not 4-star standard.

Cons: Nothing.

Cons: Honestly, there was nothing I didn’t like.

Cons: This paragraph per kayak is what we didn’t like: plumbing is very loud. When others above our room showered in the middle of the night(several) it was very loud! This was in pretty location but not in the thick of anything. No problem to walk by mostly residential and park nearby, no markets or restaurants. In our junior suite with 2 bunk beds, toilet was separated from sink and shower so it was a walk around the room past the bunk beds to get to toilet.

Cons: Rather small elevators [to be expected in a building of that age], A/C a bit undersized.

Cons: Everything in good repair, but decor a bit dated.