Hotel Ibis a Madrid

Struttura molto bella...pulitissima e molto comoda a pochi metri dalla fermata della metro 'Barajas'. Viaggiavamo con un bimbo di 9mesi e sono stati disponibilissimi in ogni momento. Ci hanno inoltre permesso di mangiare qualcosa anche se siamo arrivati a tarda notte. Grazie, lo abbiamo apprezzato molto. Rapporto qualitá prezzo, OTTIMO. Torneremo!

WARNING: This review contains more than 256 characters. If you can read more than 256 characters without fainting like many of my younger students from FIU (Florida International University in Miami), who had a heart attack when they had to read a full page, then keep reading and you will learn something new. Since my first trip to Madrid in June 1963 when I was 19 years old, I have slept in more than one hundred places, from cheap Guest Houses (when I was a young and poor student at the Sorbonne University in Paris in the 1960s), then in HOSTALES (half a way between a cheap Guest House and a real hotel, when I was a young French professor, just as poor, after 1968) and finally in real hotels, now that I am a retired professor, poorer than ever, after 46 years of priesthood teaching French to French natives in ”Great Paris” during 36 years, then extending my priesthood for 10 more years teaching at FIU, always for peanuts! But since 2016 I have been staying at this IBIS MADRID VENTAS during each stopover on my way to and back from Paris, where my sons were born and raised by their French mothers, because this Ibis offers a GREAT LOCATION, with plenty of PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION and a GREAT VALUE FOR MONEY. It is located on Calle de Julio Camba, right at the corner of Calle Alcala, just across from Ventas Plaza de Toros, where bullfight shows take place, and most rooms have a wide open view over this Plaza Ventas and Calle Alcala, which runs uphill towards Plaza Lineal, then to Canillejas, where you can take bus 101 to Barajas airport (but only T 1, 2 and 3) and bus 200 to all terminals, 1 to 4, at the same airport. Just across this IBIS, there is Metro Ventas, where you can take the subway to and from the airport, but I have a better and cheaper solution with only two busses from Terminal 4, where most big US (and also Iberia) airlines arrive and depart from. On my last trip, Sunday August 6, 2023, my nonstop Iberia flight from Miami landed in advance (as most often) at 1 pm sharp at Barajas airport in Madrid. But the time to walk, walk and walk on Terminal 4 International, then pass the Border Police with a Machine (very, very FAST!), go downstairs, take an automatic, driverless, underground train to Terminal 4 Domestic, go through Customs at a lightening speed and get out, it was already 2 pm when I took BUS 200 at the right end of T4. I paid 1.50 € on BUS 200 (WARNING: unlike Miami bus drivers, in Madrid they give change back BUT MAXIMUM CHANGE is for a 5 € note) and less than half an hour later my bus was at the AVENIDA DE AMERICA bus terminal, after going through terminals 1, 2 and 3 and taking the expressway to Madrid with a stop at CANILLEJAS. Two floors up the escalators, and about half a block later, I crossed the Avenida de America, then I crossed Francisco Silvela, walked a few more steps and took bus C-1 (CIRCULAR 1), where I paid 1.50 € again for 3 stops. A few minutes later, I got off at PLAZA MANUEL BECERRA, crossed it and

Veramente un ottimo hotel. Camere silenziosissime, letti molto comodi, pulizia impeccabile, molto buona la colazione (per i normali standard Ibis). Prezzo non proprio economico tuttavia dipende dal periodo. Personale gentile. A circa 200 metri dalla stazione metro Suanzes (linea 5, verde), in una strada laterale. In linea d’aria non molto lontano dall’aeroporto, si è però costretti a fare un giro un po’ complicato: circa 45 minuti (a proposito, supplemento di € 3, da e per l’aeroporto, oltre al costo del normale biglietto). Poco lontano, su Calle de Alcalá, un supermercato ed un ristorante della catena Vips. Assolutamente consigliato.