Room Mate Mario
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"Room Mate Mario does cheap chic with an innovative philosophy, and boats well-designed rooms without unnecessary frills."
Rates from EUR 99
Address Room Mate Mario, Calle Campomanes 4, Madrid, Spain
Telephone Bookings : UK Reservations 0845 227 0141
Rooms: 54 rooms including 2 suites.
Why stay at Room Mate Mario?
Come for:
Good value
Artsy library of CDs and DVDs
Not suitable for:
Fans of concierge desks and flurries of hotel flunkies
Eating in:
There is no formal restaurant at Room Mate Mario, but the café does serve a buffet breakfast every morning.
Eating out:
The excellent La Viuda Blanca next door
Press quotes
"As at all Madrid’s Room Mates, the black-attired young staff are unfailingly helpful and speak good English (often not the case in the city’s cheaper hotels)." The Telegraph 08
Our top pick for good value in Barcelona. The hotel offers decent levels of comfort and fun, quirkily designed rooms at a rate that, for much of the year, hovers around the EUR 100 mark."Room Mate Mario does cheap chic with an innovative philosophy, and boats well-designed rooms without unnecessary frills."
The Hotel Writes
This two-floor hotel features 54 contemporary guestrooms, decorated in high-contrast black and white with designer lighting. All are equipped with plasma-screen televisions, minibars, and high-speed internet connections.
The Room Mate Mario represents a new service concept within its category focusing on service just 50 metres from the Opera theatre and from the Royal Palace and few minutes walking from the Madrid Gran Via, Puerta del Sol, Plaza Mayor and main museums: The Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen.
"Room Mate Mario does cheap chic with an innovative philosophy, and boats well-designed rooms without unnecessary frills."
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"Room Mate Mario does cheap chic with an innovative philosophy, and boats well-designed rooms without unnecessary frills."
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What our clients have said
| Madrid is amazing! This hotel was a great find, funky decor helping a feeling of being special combined with friendly, discreet, and professional service. Next time I am in Madrid, I shall be going back there for sure. | ||
| Posted by Dr Cohan Rajan on Monday 10 July 2006 |
| The hotel is in an excellent location; very central and within walking distance of all of the major attractions in the city. The hotel itself is very stylish. Although the room was small it had everything you needed and was spotlessly clean. The staff was friendly and helpful and the buffet breakfasts are delicious. Our room looked out on to the hostel next door and there was occasional noise in the mornings. The restaurant also next door, La Viuda Blanco was very cool and is definitely to be recommended. Overall, I would recommend the hotel. It's excellent value. | ||
| Posted by Suzy Stevens on Saturday 13 May 2006 |
| Fabulous. Room size small but every thing else excellent. Will recommend hotel to anyone. Great base and an excellent style statement. Enjoyed the mixed nationality clientele. | ||
| Posted by susan treverton on Tuesday 2 May 2006 |
| We stayed at the hotel Mario for 3 nights and found it to be a great funky little boutique-style place. The staff was friendly and happily spoke English. The room was a little on the small side but very smart, clean and comfortable. The en suite shower room was ultra-modern and had a decent shower. And the location of the hotel was great, just two minutes walk away from a metro stop and only fifteen minutes walk to the very centre of Madrid. Breakfast was the standard continental fare (plus tortilla) and there's a nifty little reading room off the lobby. All in all a great place to stay; we'd go back there again without hesitation. | ||
| Posted by Sharif Mowlabocus on Saturday 22 April 2006 |
Rupert Eden's Review of Room Mate Mario
Room Mate Mario in Madrid is part of a new concept luxury hotel chain dreamt up by the Sarasola brothers, one of whom famously dated Penelope Cruz. The innovative if somewhat risky idea is to allow each luxury hotel to develop ‘his’ or ‘her’ own personality reflected in the atmosphere created by the staff, sound, lighting and décor.
The concept suggests that the luxury hotel becomes the home of a “friend” and that it can become a trusty “friend” in itself, thus the barriers between client and staff melt away. In this case, Room Mate Mario is a “philosopher-cum-film director” intimate, erudite, needing his space. Alícia and Oscár, the other two luxury hotels, are more lively and gregarious, set in the more raucous neighbourhoods of Santa Anna and Chueca.
The facilities
Mario has an extensive music and DVD library for artsy guests while staff will fill you in on the latest cultural events. The luxury hotel was decorated by Angel Verdú, one of the most innovative designers to hit Spain’s hotel scene in decades. Minimalist, grey, white and beige mini-suites, a small, cosy lobby and café serve breakfast and one of Madrid’s most satisfying dining experiences, the restaurant La Viuda Blanca, is right next door.
Jo Hathaway's Review of Room Mate Mario
A relaxed, urban boutique hotel, Room Mate Mario is part of a no-frills, no fuss chain of hotels set in various locations across Madrid and beyond. Room Mate Mario has made its home in a beautiful old warren of Madrid apartments close to the Palacio Real, in a narrow, quiet street leading from the Plaza de Opera.
The facilities
Just one of the functional, no-frills boutique chain of Room Mate hotels, Room Mate Mario has transformed the inside of this classical building into space-ship chic of white and orange walls and lights, with split level floors and winding corridors. A no-frills take on the modern boutique model, Room Mate Mario has an urban-anonymity which affords a comfortable and relaxed privacy to its guests, with basic cool, clean comforts.
The Room Mate chain names all its hotels according to its concept of personality-driven design, aimed at according with each hotel’s location. With a massive expansion planned of up to 30 new hotels by 2010, Room Mate is about to be rebranded, but this concept will remain, and with so many hotels, you can enjoy choosing carefully from the three available to you in Madrid, depending on which area suits you. Room Mate Mario is probably the quietest and most laid back choice of venue, though still within easy proximity of a livelier nightlife.
The rooms
Whilst each of the 54 rooms offer the same style of spare urban cool, each also has its own particular headboard design and the shape of each room and bathroom varies according to the dimensions of the external structure. Consequently, some rooms ‘work’ better than others – our bathroom was more of a wet room than was surely intended, with a shower behind the door and no apparent temperature regulation except for two taps only reachable by standing on the toilet. Our tip is to ask to see your room before agreeing on which one you’re taking.
The big plus of Room Mate Mario was the elements of the service which made you feel that you were on holiday and in control of your time – the tyranny of ‘breakfast-is-served’ is waived by availability from 7.30 until noon, a civilised arrangement which acknowledges the likelihood of its young clientele sleeping in late after a long night out, whilst making sure those who are up early (or going to bed really late) can still have a good meal before they go out.
"Room Mate Mario does cheap chic with an innovative philosophy, and boats well-designed rooms without unnecessary frills."
