The hotel is good, in a good location and offering a free minibar is great. Especially when you are visiting Madrid during summer.
The rooms are clean and everything looks nice and new.
The minus point goes to the reception. I was treated like a dog (or even worse). There is a receptionist who is unfriendly and looks tired of his job or something like that. I have never being treated like that in any other hotel and I couldn't move from there as I would be charged for 1 night.
Unfortunately that's the only memory I will bring from this hotel.

PS. In other hand I got an amazing service from the hotel security guard. If you have any questions about the town you can always come to him. In fact he should be doing the reception service instead of the ones there.

This hotel is in a great location, not far from the airport as well as being only a short taxi ride to the bars and restaurants.

The continental breakfast were quite basic and not very appitising so ate out after the first one.

It is a very modern looking hotel with great, clean rooms. A free minibar is good with extras down in reception to stock up on!!

Everywhere is a taxi-ride, but we expected that!

I really like the location of this hotel. It is very convenient to the Metro which makes it a simple trip to and from the Airport. There are a couple of local Tapas Bars in the area that are quite good. If you want to play tourist it is an easy trip on the Metro to get to any area of Madrid. At 7,50 Euros for a 10 trip pass it is a great way to get around.

I like the AC properties because there is a standard across all of them that is good. It is nice to know what to expect when you use these properties.

There was one drawback this time. The AC properties in Spain have turned off their air conditioning for the winter. This makes the room very warm and stuffy. I had to open the windows - or door in this case, to make the room bearable at night. For this class of hotel, one would expect the air conditioning to remain available irregardless of the season.

you don't mind staying a little bit north of the main sights in the city. It's worth booking if you're getting it at a much cheaper price than the city centre hotels.

We were a 5 minute bus ride from the shops in the Salamanca district and the downtown area around Cheuca, Retiro, Prado Museum (Bus No.1). There was a bus stop within a 2 minute walk in either direction out of the hotel.

We bought a metro/bus ticket which gave us 10 single rides for Euro 6.40 which was fantastic value (we preferred the buses to the metro).

As for the hotel...it was modern, clean, reasonably priced and in a decent enough neighbourhood (we were 2 girls travelling for a weekend away).

Reception staff were friendly and helpful. I'm not sure if it was a busy period for the hotel but we were never disturbed by other guests during the night (as we were the last time we stayed in another hotel in Madrid).

The room was a very good size - 2 lovely twin beds - even more comfortable than our beds at home! It was well decorated - lovely wood and glass decor.

Bathroom was clean and a good size. The minibar is free but we didn't really make much use of it. TV only had 1 English speaking channel (CNN news!) but we weren't in the hotel room much.

There is also a shuttle which can pick you up and drop you off from the airport - you have to book it beforehand with the hotel - which is a bit of a pain as they don't have any contact details on their website! We had to call a friend in Madrid to get the details and book it for us! However, the shuttle was waiting when we arrived and the driver was very friendly, chatty and showed us a bit of the sights along the way.

The only thing we didn't like was that the hotel did not provide an iron and ironing board - if you wanted something ironed, you had to use their laundry service, which of course will cost you! And the fact that the airport shuttle only operates Monday to Friday! The taxi fare on the sunday cost us Euro 22 for a 5-10 minute drive!

We didn't have breakfast or make use of the fitness suite.

There is a hotel just across the road from the AC Avenida which has a rooftop bar which has views over the city and is apparently worth a visit - but we didn't get a chance.

All in all - well worth booking if you don't mind not being in the centre of the sights.