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September 07, 2015

 

Madrid


Stuart and I like grand old hotels. We like seeing them before they get modernized and homogenized. 



Hotel Ritz Madrid is certainly old, and in some ways still grand. However it's not The Ritz anymore. The property was acquired by the Mandarin Oriental last May and is due to be retrofitted next year.

This means now is the best time to be here, before the renovators and designers swoop in.



 

Beautiful bed linen, blankets and bed covers; no quick-change duvets here. Enormous thick bath towels big as bedsheets to get lost in. Embroidered shower curtains...oops, shower curtains? Really? Oh well, the bathroom has to go...




But please don't touch the Krug Bar! Except maybe to replace some of the really old and faded framed photos that line the walls. We've offered ours:



And maître d' Juan Jose must stay at Goya to ensure a dinner service that's quietly elegant, knowledgeable, and unobtrusively solicitous.



Okay, now you can renovate the hotel.






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posted by Alice Dimalanta Jones  # September 07, 2015




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