Suites Kris Aeropuerto

At least it was close to the airport

Seeing the sights of Madrid was not our priority on this trip, so we decided to find accommodations close to Barajas airport to keep the hassles of big city traffic to a minimum. After checking out a few hotels on the internet, we decided that the Suites Kris Aeropuerto looked like it would do the trick. Our rate of 60 Euros per night (US$81 at the prevailing exchange) looked quite reasonable, so we booked one night on our inbound leg and two nights outbound.

It turned out to be quite a new building, with several floors (we ended up on the 4th and 5th), located in a sort of industrial area on the outskirts of the city. Their literature indicates there are twelve hotels in this chain, located in various cities around Spain.

Unique Quality: The hotel had its own good-sized shuttle bus for airport pick-up and drop-offs, but it always seemed to take between 40-60 minutes (or longer) for it to actually make the pick-ups when we phoned them - there are five airport Terminals it has to stop at while at Barajas.

Although the staff were friendly and helpful, the building was so new and large that I found it to be quite sterile with a 'cold' feeling to it. Everything was just glass and steel with little or no plants or other touches to provide a softer touch to things. Our room was a suite with an attached living room and a kitchen too. The kitchen appliances were so new they still had instruction books inside them, but there was not even a kettle to boil water (on our return trip the kitchen was locked). We had an excellent self-serve breakfast in their ground floor restaurant, but it too was blah - surrounded by glass walls with just a bunch of tables and chairs lined up like in a cafetieria. It was like moving into a house with no decorative touches at all - just the furniture sitting there. Only a few blocks away is a huge multi-storey mall with lots of restaurants - we went there for the remainder of our meals. Internet service consisted of two slow dial-up computers located in one corner of their ground floor bar area.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Related to: Road Trip

Suites Kris Aeropuerto Photo: Main lobby entrance from street

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