Excellent location. Very clean and comfortable. Customer very attentive. I recomend.

Hotel is located on Velazquez in Barrio Salamanca. Very good location for business. If you stay here reserve a double at least the singles are unbearable, too small. I stayed here a few times during the past couple of years. In the winter it can be 75 degrees outside in Madrid, but they keep the heat on in the hotel.
They will not turn on the air conditioning. Hotel is average clean and has a cleanliness issue. They do a good business with older Spanish people from outside Madrid. The younger crowd goes to more updated hotels for about 30% less. The staff is not helpful. There is no security after 10 or 11 pm your on you re own.
The hotel is on the 5th floor of the building. Apartments and offices downstairs. The cable CNN etc rarely work at all. I haven t been back in a while after the cleaning got worse, TV didn t work, and air conditioning was turned off in winter. FOr 70-80 euros you get a good NH hotel around the corner and a good diverse business and tourist crowd. Don Diego is where the people in Madrid send their grandparents or inlaws they don t want to stay at their own houses. A geriatric ward on the weekend.

Time for an update on the Don Diego:
The Hotel is a simple Hostal (Hotel with few services) that had almost entirely Spanish families visting during semana Santa (Easter week). It was not crowded and very quiet during our one week stay. Our Triple Bedroom was very spacious and light, very clean and well insulated from the street noise below. The furniture was sparse and basic, but functional and not ugly; the beds of very good quality. Bathroom super clean and comfortable. There are many good dining and breakfast options in the neighborhood -- not a place for those seeking the nightlife, though. Overall, a good value for the self-sufficient tourist/family/culture lover.

The DonDiego is in the great non-tourist area of Salamanca. Streets very safe and bustling with every age of Spaniard until late. Not a trace of the crowds of grungy tourists filling GranVia. The hotel was clean and very good value. However, the walls were the thinnest I have encountered in Spain. The room window was into an inner light shaft, which meant no traffic noise, but made the room dark. We were put on a smoking floor against our preference, but there was little offensive odour.

Nearby restaurant O'Caldino was a great slice of Spanish neighbourhood life with fine seafood and good house Rioja. Not a word of English and they don't know to speak slowly for the tourists, but if you don't want to try spanish, they do have a menu in pictures.

There is a wonderful market in the centre of the block to the west, which explains why there are few food shops in the area. Best cafes are a few blocks west, below Plaza Colon on Recoletos. And the hot chocolate at San Gines is the best ever.

Day trip to Toledo on AVE train. Very clean, fast and modern. Note that the AVE has its own ticket office in Atocha station. 13.6 euros return.

Had trouble with AeroCity in both directions. 40 minutes late getting in, so OK, no car waiting, but it took several calls and lots of telephone music to get through to them. Their car did come 15 minutes after getting a reply. Unmarked MPV. Going back we were on the street 15 minutes early, waited 30 minutes, called them and were told driver had already been. Promised pickup in 10 minutes. Waited 25, then caught a cab. Cab was 20.4 euros compared to 16 with Aerocity.