Hi there!

We´re planning to spend a few days in Madrid at the beginning of Mai. Because we´re on a tight budget, we wonder if any of you have been recently in an hostal for under €30,--/day per double room.

Any tips appreciated!

Saludos,

Jesus

On Friday ,Saturday and sunday the most of good hotels in Madrid (3/4 stars ) have a lot of offers.
Intend with travel agency of Madrid and ask them for the week end offers or on line with the hotels.

ABP

Hi ABP!

I´ve never been really travelling in Spain and therefor hardly have any personal experience (I just moved here a couple of weeks ago). But I always thought 3/4 star hotels aren´t in the range of € 30-- to 40,-- per night in a double room?

Nonetheless, I will shop around the next few days and see which weekend offers are available!!!

Jesus

Jesus, April (Semana Santa week) and May (San Isidro bullfights) are bad times for finding good
hotels offers in Madrid.
The best time are from June to September , you can find a weekend (saturday and sunday) hotels for euros 75 double room( for total /two nights) in 3/4 stars hotels.
The best for your money is stay in Madrid the weekend(saturday/sunday mornings and nights are great) and to go Toledo,Segovia,Salamanca,Caceres
etc on working days.

The 3/4 stars hotels in Spain are very good and usually they include the breakfast.Don´t worry about the location ,Madrid has a good metro red.

Luck
ABP

Unfortunately, there´s no chance to change the date as my girlfriend is stopping over on her flight home to Frankfurt...

But maybe I´m lucky to find something. We´ll be in Madrid from May, 1st to 5th!

Thanks anyway!

Jesus

I stayed at Hostel Excelsior, 2nd floor Gran Via and it was right near the corte Ingles store and fnac, the metro and 5 min from Puerta del sol.
It's simple I warn you but everything works well, ie shower, lift etc and the desk staff are nice.
Oh, and it's in the price range you require.
I think the location is excellent.

Hey miche!

I was just going to suggest Hostal Excelsior

It's certainly very good value for money. The place looks a little kind of old and shabby, but it was very clean and as miche says it has everything you need. It also has a sitting room for guests.

I think a double room with bathroom (full sized bath) is about 35 Euros. But they also have rooms with shared bathrooms which will obviously be less.

You can't get much more convenient than this.

Oh, and even though it's halfway up (down?) Gran Via, we heard no noise did we? Well, other than the glup glup of Larios but that was self inflicted

Good luck Jesus

Jo

There's also internet cafes to the left,right and opposite, McDonalds to the right ( which Jo-Anne saved me from and they serve Mahou
As for the Larios,...erghmm, well we swiped the whole stock of a shelf from a huge supermarket in Alcala de Henares, lugged it back to Madrid and glup glup glup with room temp Tonic water, but hey anything tastes good in Madrid...
Have fun!!!!

Jesus

Just found this review which includes address and tel. no etc of Excelsior.

It didn't feel as much of a backpackers place to me as is implied in the review.

EUROCHEAPO REVIEW OF HOSTAL EXCELSIOR

By the way, I was happy with the one bottle of Larios but, no, we had to have an enormous stash and miche had to carry at least one bottle round with her everywhere we went, hoping to find a nice bit of park to glup it in

The internet cafes were great places for me to learn my Spanish ... 'Por favour ..... (points to pen ..?)...' etc. I did get better as the days went by though

Jo

Thank to all of you!

This seems to be a very well working forum . . . happy to have stumbled across this site!

By the way, what is "larios"?

Jesus