This is a nice deal. Clean, quiet and comfortable - nice hotel staff. Valentim Beato street is quiet during the night (do not worry, its safe). There is a grocery store - closes at midnight - near the hotel. To reach Central Madrid is easy. Suanzes Metro station is only a few steps from hotel . Buiyng Tourist Ticket (1, 3 or 9 days) you can use Metro and Bus Systems with no limits during the period. Enjoy Madrid!!!!

Convenient to Madrid center and to the airport, the hotel is located in a commercial-industrial area. Car repair shops line the street, so that during business hours it has lots of parked vehicles; outside business hours you will find the area deserted. The newspaper El Pais has production facilities at the far end of the street. The few restaurants in the general area seem to function according to the opening hours of local businesses (otherwise, no customers). We chose this hotel for its convenience to Suanzes metro station and its reasonable price (given the current decline of the U.S. dollar). We would probably return to stay again. The station provides easy access to central Madrid (15-20 minutes) and to Terminals 1, 2 and 3 of Barajas airport (30-35 minutes). The five-story hotel (with pay parking) lies a very brief walk up the street from the station (1-2 minutes). It provides a base for going out sightseeing rather than a place to vacation in itself. If you take the metro to Suanzes, as you approach the doors which access stairs to the street leave from the side where the sign says “Pares”; otherwise, you will emerge on the side of the main street with a large park. Valentin Beato is at the nearby corner at the side of a Land Rover dealership; walk toward the “P” sign in the distance, as the hotel sits back from the street. We found the hotel desk staff polite, efficient and cooperative — but business-like. On all the occasions we encountered, at least one staff member spoke English or French. Internet connection using the hotel’s desktop computer in the lobby or your laptop costs, as do phone calls. The small, cramped lounge area near the hotel entrance has a rack with current Spanish newspapers. The rooms have light-wood, built-in contemporary furniture, platform beds and parquet wood floors (for ease of cleaning). Yes, you can hear footsteps from adjoining rooms; however, the limited free floor space means that you will most likely hear a cleaner servicing a room in the morning rather than another guest at night. (It would help us jet-lagged and late risers if the cleaning staff wore soft-soled slippers as they went about their work; better still, Accor should carpet the rooms.) The modern, spacious bathroom provided a shower (but not a bathtub), liquid soap exclusively, two towels and a bath mat. The room had a heavy, solid door which closed tightly onto its frame, which ran across the floor as well, and had a surrounding rubber seal. (I wish that U.S. hotels standardized on this type of door and frame.) Coupled with carpeting in the corridor, we did not hear any noise from outside the door. The top, fourth floor, has the quietest rooms because you will not have anyone above. You might want to avoid rooms nearest the elevator; also, the cleaners have their trolleys and supplies in a room to the side. Room 420 at one end of the corridor faces away from the street; room 421 opposite it faces the street. Room 431 at the other end of the corridor faces away from the street; room 430 opposite it faces the street. These last two rooms have a separate door at the end of the corridor which isolates them even further, and serves to make them equivalent to adjoining rooms for a family. If you arrive at Terminal T1, after passing through passport control and customs go to the tourist information kiosk. Obtain street and metro maps and information on museums, art galleries, shopping and the like. We encountered a pleasant woman who spoke English and provided useful literature from the shelves to which only she had access. Madrid has a superb metro and bus system — modern, comprehensive, frequent, safe, clean and operating till late. Check whether you have an up-to-date metro map, as lots of them still in circulation omit new stations along extended lines. For instance, Line 5, green, serving Suanzes station and thus the hotel, now ends at Alameda de Osuna (near the airport) not at Canillejas (construction of its extension continues and it will probably reach the station at Terminal 2 at some point in the near future). Line 10, dark blue, now ends at Hospital del Norte not at Herrera Oria. Using the moving footways, walk to Terminal T2 which has the metro station. (Note that walking to the metro station in T2 and then finding the bus stop might take a bit of wandering around. If you need to, ask for directions at any information counter; usually someone speaks English.) From a vending machine with a touch screen, buy a “Bono de 10 Viajes” (10-trip ticket) for 6.40 euros (at the time of writing). Note that from and to the airport you have to pay a 1 euro supplement per person, as the airport terminals lie in the next fare zone. The machine also has a touch-screen button for the supplement. Go outside to the bus stop across the road for the Linea 200 bus and take it to Canillejas. (On a bus and in a metro station, you feed the ticket into a lower slot on a reader and retrieve it from an upper slot. Several people can use the same ticket as long as each person passes it through the machine reader.) The bus has racks for luggage. Check that the visual display announcing the next stop works, and press one of the buttons near the exit door in the middle of the bus to request the stop; otherwise, the driver will speed by. If the display does not work, ensure that the driver knows clearly that you want to get off at Canillejas. When you alight from the bus, cross over the road to Canillejas metro station using the pedestrian footbridge over the highway. Lonely Planet and Time Out have the best guides to Madrid in English. Buy before you leave home, as you will pay more for them in Spain. Also, from a Madrid newsagent buy a Guia del Ocio (a weekly) and a copy of El Pais (a daily) to check the hours of opening (or if open at all) of places you would like to visit. Every publication we referred to had something incorrect.

My boyfriend and I went to Spain for a little longer than a week and stayed at Ibis.We liked the rooms's layout,all very practical.We had a clean room with the basic amenities (tv,phone,etc).You must keep an eye on your phone bill though as the price they publish on Reception are 100% misleading when it comes to phone calls cost per minute.I paid nearly 120 ? for 4 phone calls or so and for not longer then 3 minutes each!..The staff is very friendly and helpful at all times.Hotel's location is far from city centre and Chueca (nevermind,Madrid has very efficient public transport system running until 01:30,if you missed that one then you can still fall back on the night buses running till 6:30 app.) but close to the airport if you are driving a car.Suanzes metro station (line 5 "green") also near the hotel on Alcala street wich is also plenty of restaurant serving italian,chinese and local food.

I chose Ibis mainly due to the fact that with the low price, I thought I knew what to expect from an Ibis. Well, it wasn't really the case -- as it surpassed my expectation! The room was basic, however seemed to be very new, had a contemporary feel and very clean. The location, while not exactly in the middle of the city, was only 2 min walk from a metro station (Suanzes, green line #5) which goes directly to the heart of the city (approx. 15 min to Sol, Opera, Gran Via, etc). If coming from the airport, take bus #204 from in front of T4 terminal to Canillejas (2 stops from airport), and from there take the metro (2 stops) to Suanzes. The trip (airport to hotel) takes approx. 20 min. The only problem we had was the noise from the other room(s) -- we could hear the sound of the water from the shower and footsteps -- however, it wasn't at all a problem for us, as it wasn't loud.