Hotel Praga - Madrid, Spain     

Please do your self a favour and stay away from this hotel. I'd like to tell you about my horrible experience when I stayed there for 3 nights from July 10th till July 13th; I wanted to iron my dress and when I pluged my iron in the plug I got electricuted and burned my hand and ruined my iron!! I immediatly rang the reception and as it turned out, the receptionists were completely oblivious to what had happened and when I asked for someone to come up to my room to see what had happened, I was told that there was nothing they could do and if I had a problem I should come down to the reception. After this they hung up on me and then refused to answer when I called back!! Of course it later turned out that their plugs were completely dreadful ( imagine if one pluged his valuable computer in to the plug, only to have it burned and ruined!!) Upon leaving, one of the receptionists even called us names in front of other guests!! Please do not have your stay in Madrid ruined by going there, the service is absolutely abhor, their knowledge of English likewise and furthermore I think it is completely ridiculous that this hotel has been granted 4 stars when their cleaning is poor and the don't even have a computer room!!!!!

This hotel was great, the most important thing is that it was located in a decent working middle class neighborhood. The people are very friendly and it is away from the tourist trap of the gran via. The rooms are very large and you will see plenty of tourists and businessmen here at the hotel. The hotel is blocks away from the Vicente Calderon stadium where the Atletico de Madrid football club play, we watched a game here and walked to get there even at night it was safe. The bus station is located right in front and is an easy way to get to the center of the city near tourist sights, also the metro station Marque de Vladillo was close by. The price is also a bargain in an ever increasingingly expensive Europe.