Hotel guide · Palacio, Madrid
A palace hotel in the old heart of Madrid, a few minutes' walk from the opera and the Royal Palace, with a historic garden and a pool on the roof.
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01Is it for you?
02The hotel
There are twenty room types. The Deluxe rooms, at 25 m², look onto the quiet private patio and have a bath with a rain shower; the Premier (28 m²) and Supreme (32 m²) rooms look over the city. Families have the Family Supreme rooms, 38 m², with a small lounge and a sofa bed for children, and connecting rooms from 50 to 80 m².
RedLevel is the hotel’s upper tier: Supreme rooms and Junior Suites of 40 m², a Junior Suite with a terrace (54 m²), and suites up to the Royal Suite, 203 m², whose terrace looks over the opera house and the Madrid de los Austrias. The two- and three-bedroom suites join a suite to Premier rooms, for a family. RedLevel guests have their own reception and a lounge with breakfast, an open bar at set hours, a library and an outdoor terrace, with butler and luggage service, turndown each evening, and check-out as late as 2 pm, subject to availability.
If a particular outlook, bed configuration or connecting rooms matter to you, tell us when you enquire and we will confirm them with the hotel for your dates before anything is booked.
On the practical side: there is valet parking, for a fee, and an electric-car charging point; room service runs around the clock; the hotel lists accessible and adapted rooms; dogs are welcome with the hotel’s pet-friendly service; and its complimentary Luxury Van takes guests around the city centre, on the hotel’s conditions. From Barajas airport we arrange a private transfer.
Jardín de los Duques, in the palace’s former stables, is the hotel’s restaurant: dishes of Castilian tradition, from the sea and the land, given a contemporary turn, served in the dining room or out in the garden. Los Duques Grand Café does tapas and Mediterranean and international dishes with creative cocktails, looking onto the garden, and there is a bar beside the rooftop pool. Breakfast can be served in your room.
03Location
Palacio de los Duques stands on the Cuesta de Santo Domingo in Palacio, in the Centro district, between the Plaza de Oriente and Gran Vía. The map shows it with what is around it: the Teatro Real, the Royal Palace and the Almudena Cathedral, and a little further, the Plaza Mayor and the Puerta del Sol. For the city itself, see our Madrid page and our Madrid guide.
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Palacio de los Duques Gran Meliá
Teatro Real
Royal Palace
Almudena Cathedral
Plaza Mayor
Puerta del Sol
04Alternatives
More hotels from our Madrid selection, each with a different character. Distances are in a straight line to the Puerta del Sol; Palacio de los Duques is 640 m away.
Los Jerónimos
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Castellana
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Justicia
A five-star boutique hotel in Justicia, near Chueca and Las Salesas, in a towered corner building, with a spa and a water area.
05Planning
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