Gran Hotel Ingles

Opened in 1853, the Gran Hotel Inglés was the first hotel to have a restaurant and is located on the first street in the city to have an electricity supply, the current Calle Echegaray, formerly Calle Lobo. Hidden Away Hotels acquired the building that had been the oldest luxury hotel in Madrid, which had fallen into disrepair over the years, in order to restore it to its former splendor.

The hotel is distributed between two 5-storey buildings more than 150 years old, with different levels between them, and built on half-timbered walls (mixed wood and brickwork), a particular construction typology of the old quarter of Madrid, which made it very difficult to intervene on them to adapt them to the needs of a high-end hotel as ambitious as the client wanted. To solve this delicate situation, CMV collaborated with Enrique Nuere and Paco Cabeza, two of Spain's leading figures in the treatment of wooden structures.

It is worth mentioning the lobby bar of the Gran Hotel Inglés, a hypostyle room with wrought iron columns, converted in recent decades into a car park, when after the refurbishment it has ended up being one of the most glamorous meeting places in Madrid. The soul of this space is the central cocktail bar, which organizes the different areas of the hotel's common areas (library, reserved areas, reception, restaurant ....) that coexist harmoniously in the same historic space.