Hotel Francisco I - Madrid

We used family room for 4 family members. The room was spacious, clean and comfortable. Location was perfect 1minutes walk from the plaza sol. staffs were kind also. breakfast is simple but satisfied.

No central heating, guests provided with only portable heater in freezing madrid. Bring your own shower cream and shampoo. Pedestrian mall can be noisy during the day and rowdy at night. Bring ear plugs. On the whole, very good quality hotel.

Except for the air-conditioning issue in summer, the hotel was excellent!

Much better then a 2-star hotel. Perfect location to visit all main attraction of Madrid city center. Absolutely raccomanded.

The hotel offers you much more than you can expect for the price you pay. Everything is just perfect. Should I ever go to visit Madrid again, there would be no doubt in my mind at all, that I would stay at this fantastic hotel. This goes for me and the eight people I was together with at our 5 days stay at Francisco 1.

Excellent location, hotel very confortable modern, clean and spacious. Street noisey but with closed windows one can eliminated that. Good value for hotel in capital

The rooms were nice, however the glass door between the room and the bathroom is not very practical. Why would anyone want to be observed while doing their private business. Central AC was not working well, however the hotel provided mobile units. Reception staff did not speak English but were helpful anyway.

I would really love this hotel if it is not in the hot summer days. The hotel is well maintained and the service is good. But, being a renovated old building, each room has a mobile air conditioner, which, if turned on, requires the window to be open, and you will be bombarded with the noise from the crowd on the street. So, either the heat or the noise will make it hard to go to sleep. So, avoid it in the really hot weather. In all other times, I think it would be a very nice hotel with good value, good service, learn, and right in the heart of everything.

The hotel has a great location near shops, bars and metro. Staff were very helpful and friendly especially when we they provided us with an air conditioning unit. The room was clean and the breakfast was good. Just a bit noisy at night but apart from that a superb place to stay in Madrid!!

MEN AT WORK!!! very, very noisy, one part of hotel is nice, budget rooms very poor, and workers don't care of guests, very, very noisy at early morning.

Hotel francisco 1 is a very good hotel....

This hotel had no air condition and with the hot weather in madrid when you have no a/c you have to open the windows so you may have a little of fresh air whitch does not help a lot .the problem of this hotel was just a/c that did not work

Happy staying there. We traveled for 13 cities and this hotel was A number one.

Nice, clean hotel with friendly staff and a very great location for little money! But fon't forget your ear plugs^^ I can absolutely recommend.

Very nice hotel and close to metro (Opéra). Lots of artist on the road, but good windows keep the noise outside! Need to walk stairs - not wheelchair proof! Very quiet in rooms! Good breakfast to start the day.

Great value,great location.There is quite a bit of noise from people in the street through early hours of morning.All members of staff were fab.

Excellent location. Very near Puerta del Sol and the commercial area. The rooms are spacious and with a beautiful decoration. Very good bathroom. Abundant breakfast. Highly recommended

I stayed in Madrid for two nights, seeing my nephew and exploring the city. The hotel is perfectly located, very central, with the Metro five minutes walk away. The room was in the refurbed part, very pleasant, clean, good bathroom and a good size although I was travelling by myself. It might be a little tight for two, but the beds were good and a great size. I found the key/electricity turning on system very annoying however. Breakfast adequate, a little dull but good choice of milk strangely! V nice helpful staff. BUT oh the noise in my room at night! Not the passers by, but the bin emptiers, the skip removals, the lorries and bikes... If you close the blinds it makes a bit of a difference; or request a room at the back; or take v good earplugs. I will do all that next time...

I enjoyed the hotel. It was a little noisy because of renovations. The reason that I rated staff competence low was that one of the desk clerks and a bell men all but strong armed me to take a taxi to the airport the next morning. They told me the Metro would not run until at least 6:30 am, that my bag would probably be stolen, and at best it would take me an hour and a half to reach the airport. When I asked the cost of a taxi they said 35 Euro. Well, the Metro did leave at 6 am, no one, of course, touched my luggage, the travel time was 45 minutes and the cost 2 Euro so I saved 33 Euro. Are these guys getting kick backs from taxi drivers? Besides that, I would certainly stay at the Francisco I again.

It's a good hotel.

Noisy hotel, staff people not particularly friendly and helpfull

Excellent location, good price. But we were given a room from the old part of the building. The room was small, poorly furnished and extremely noisy. The sound from nearby streets and neighboring rooms was too loud to have a comfort sleep.

Very very excellent..

I had a great time in Madrid. I was really surprised because the hotel Francisco I is amazing and also well located, just 2 min by feet from Puerta del Sol (the beating heart of Madrid).

Excellent location, friendly staff, reasonable price. Ask for design rooms at the 5th floor, they were renovated recently.

Excellent.

Fantastic room and location. For the price i paid was really impressed. Breakfast room was a bit shabby as still needed to be done up like the first two floors of the hotel but nothing horrible. overall, great! thanks Francisco l

Very well located, in the centre of Madrid, next to everything, but far from traffic noise. Room very clean and very well furnished.

Very nice hotel situated in a very centre of Madrid near Plaza del Sol and Opera on a walking street. It was a little bit loud on the street but good windows solved this problem. Room and bathroom were clean and pretty spacious, furniture was modern. Big plasma TV in our room wasn't working but it wasn't a problem for me. Our staying there included continental breakfast.

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I like my trip to madrid and specialy i loved the hotel

An excellent hotel, with well-furnished rooms, good location and very good value

We stayed in one of new newly renovated rooms, which was amazing. Price to quality was fantastic for these new rooms. Would highly recommend.

It's a great location. 3 or so blocks from the center of the city. 5 to 6 blocks from the palace.

Very nice position and relationship price/quality

Relationship between price/quality is excellent, the hotel is very close to Sol and Opera tube stations and is a good start to visit all over the center of Madrid by foot. Rooms are very clean and breakfast is ok. I recommend this hotel to everybody!

It is a cheap, quiet, central place to stay in Madrid.

Stanze molto pulite, anche se poco spaziose. ottima accoglienza e rapporto qualita' prezzo. consigliato per chi vuole visitare la citta' in poco tempo ed essere in pieno centro. colazione abbondante

Good disign of rooms Bad because no internet entrance

A lot of stairs, but staff will carry your luggage for you with smile, there are elevators but not everywhere. (not from the hall to the first floor for example) No wifi, no internet, horrible view throughout my window, but at the same time the rate price/quality is excellent, breakfast is included, the location is perfect, people very kind.

Location of this hotel was very good with easy access to metros. Quadruple room very spacious, clean and newly renovated. Excellent value for money.

The rooms and the whole interior badly need renovation. The staff was very friendly and helping. My rooms did not have air conditioning, and in Madrid in late June it was quite a bit of a torture.

Excellent location and employees very helpful. Nice room with good services.

Beautiful location. they are very helpful

Good location, clean room, the room was renovated ... .. we didn't pay for the breakfast but it was included ..