Hôtel De Crillon A Rosewood Hotel

“Superlative boutique hotel.”

This was our first visit to the property, based on a recommendation from a dear friend in Madrid. The property is located adjacent to the Place de la Concorde in a superb location close to the main luxury shops but also many of the key museums. Despite its palace status, it is quite unassuming an… more

This was our first visit to the property, based on a recommendation from a dear friend in Madrid. The property is located adjacent to the Place de la Concorde in a superb location close to the main luxury shops but also many of the key museums. Despite its palace status, it is quite unassuming and is one of the smaller top hotels with 120 rooms and suites. As you enter the grand building, the reception is a discrete room with leather chairs and mahogany desks and you are greeted and welcomed in a very relaxing environment. We were fortunate that the suite was available and whilst the formalities were arranged, the room was ready. As it was our first visit we were given a tour of the hotel and this property feels a little more cosy and in some areas less grand, pompous than other palace properties. The property has several inner courtyards which during the summer provide outdoor dining facilities but, thoughtfully, for the guests they are closed so that it does not become too noisy in the evenings. The courtyards serve the Jardin D’Hiver and also the Nonos restaurant. A quite pleasant feature of the hotel is that there are all ranges of culinary experience ranging from L’Ecrin, their Michelin restaurant, Jardin D’Hiver which has excellent food through to Nonos and finally Butterfly Patisserie. This is quite agreeable as it allows guests to not only have fine dining but also to have more informal dining at the Butterfly Patisserie. The Rooms The hotel, although adjacent to the Place de la Concorde, has most of its rooms situated facing the inner courtyard or a very quiet side street. Each room is decorated individually and even though it is part of the Rosewood, the hotel goes out of its way to ensure there is a little personal touch of authenticity in each of the rooms. In other words, you do not feel that you are part of a chain of hotels. The higher floors have more light and airy experience and each of the rooms has a different décor so if you are a regular visitor you will probably have your favourite. We were fortunate to be upgraded to a suite, which had a lovely marble bathroom, with a strong power shower and a very pleasant separate walk in wardrobe. Quite noteworthy was the use of the luxury hanger maker, Toscanini, which very few hotels make use of. The room was quiet, with a comfortable but firm bed, all the necessary technological arrangements and a separate, but discrete, coffee machine. The suite itself overlooked the inner courtyard on the third floor which by day I could imagine would be slightly noisier during the summer with the atmosphere of the dining rooms on the ground floor. The hotel was clear that these areas are closed in the evening to respect the guests’ privacy and quietness. We are relatively new to the Rosewood Group, but understand that each property applies its own distinctive personal style and based upon our visits to date we very much look forward to our future bookings for the rest of the year. We shall definitely return.

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