Madrid:Intur Palacio San Martin??

have made reservations at the Palacio San Martin for October 21-23 and the 25th -- has anyone stayed there or know of it??

Where is that located? Is it in San Martín?? I've never heard of it. Is it a hotel or maybe a parador??

Saludos, MadridMan

Hello there! I stayed at the Palacio in May for a week. It was extremely comfortable and luxurious. I have written a couple of write-ups on this site. If you do a search, you will find them! Enjoy Madrid. Plumepoppy

Plume -- Thanks for your response -- I had tried a search on here and did not come up with your messages but went this time to your member number and found your great review of this hotel -- thanks again and for anyone else out there -- we got a good price of 103 Euros for 2 of us per night during the week -- not budget prices but when you split that with 2 people it is very reasonable for a nice, comfortable, clean place to lay your head at night -- (or in the morning if you follow Spanish custom).

I also will be staying there 11/7-11/11
please tell me how you liked it

So is this place in Madrid? I've still yet to see anyone make that clear. Thanks.

Its listed in the puerta del sol. I will report to the group when we return.

But WHICH Puerta del Sol?? (doesn't anyone realize this is an ALL SPAIN Message Board???? )

Saludos, MadridMan

It's located in Madrid near Sol between the Cortes Ingles and Opera.

AHA!!! hehehe.. I'll edit the subject line to reflect the city about which we're discussing.

Does this place have a website? If so, someone please include it here. Thanks!

marknla, if you end up staying here will you please come back to this/your thread and give us your review? Please?

Here's the website!
www.hotelinturpalacio.com

[originally posted by marknla on 10-28-2002 at 06:34 PM]
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Just a quick note to let you all know that I just returned from Madrid and Sevilla and had the best hotel experience ever in Europe -- both of our hotels were outstanding -- in Madrid the Intur Palacio San Martin was great -- clean modern bathrooms with a great shower -- double glass windows in the room -- our room looked over the courtyard of the neighboring church -- the plaza was very quiet yet 2 blocks from the Gran Via and 4 blocks from Plaza del sol and 4 blocks from Plaza Mayor -- perfect location -- all of this for 103 euros a night --
In Seville the Casa de la Juderia was a romantic spanish hacienda -- well about 12 of them turned into a hotel with rooms looking down on a vine and floral draped courtyard with central fountain -- large rooms with excellent modern bathrooms -- even separate shower and bathtubs. Hope others enjoy both of these as we did.

Hotel Intur Palacio San Martin- We are staying there now.. First checked in on 10/18 and checked out 10/21 to visit friends in Port Banus. We enjoyed the Palacio so much we cancelled our other reservations and returned on 10/27 and checking out 10/31. I have an extra Bancotel coupon. Bancotel is the way to go at Palacio. The hotel has so many positive features we are really hard pressed to think of anything negative. The extra ticket if for sale $50.00 first come first serve and includes some great information such as the ice cream place nearby with ice cream to die for.

Bill, I sent you an email message, but if you check here first instead of your email, I'd be happy to buy your sole voucher from you as long as it is intact in the checkbook. Let me know. I'll be arriving in Madrid on March 14th.

If I get this voucher, then that makes 6 from participants on this board. Only 20 more to go, but since the remaining vouchers I need are divisible by 5, I might just get them directly from Bancotel or Petrabax.

As I mentioned, I'm leaving in March, so my offer to buy any other loose vouchers still goes through mid January.

Bill, where was the ice cream place, we will be there next week!

The ice cream parlor is called Valor and is within a stones throw of the Intur Palacio Hotel. Simply exit the hotel and make a hard left - walk 200 feet and order some of the best tasting ice cream you're find anywhere. Valor is actually a chain of chocolatiers that retail ice cream and chocolates. It's a great place for morning cafe con leche ( with fritters $2 bucks) or a cup of melted hot chocolate. A HUGE ice cream sundae is about $5.00 euros which is about $5 bucks. It's usually very busy and the servers are usually overwhelmed..so just chill out. It's worth the wait.
As you leave Valor directly across the alley is the potatas fritas shop but that's another story.

Sounds great I will be there on Thursday.