Hi everyone! I've got a hectic, but great trip planned for December during xmas & new years and was wondering about these hotels. Just the basics - good/bad, location, noise level, breakfast quality, service etc. I don't need much from a hotel except convenient location, clean rooms and a front desk who knows what/where to do in the city.

Madrid - Tryp Ambassador
Granada - Carmen Hotel
Seville - Inglaterra Hotel
Barcelona - Royal Hotel

Thanks in advance for the help!

SORRY FOR THE DUPLICATION! I thought I entered it wrong - forgive me everyone!

I have stayed at the Carmen and the Inglaterra and they are fine and have good locations.

ladybug98,
I stayed happily at the Hotel Inglaterra many years ago but did walk in to pick up a brochure on my last Seville trip.

Although I prefer a Santa Cruz district location for the romance and charm factor, the Inglaterra has a fine downtown location facing the Plaza Nueva, right across from my favorite downtown tapas bar, Casablanca on Calle Zaragoza 50.
The Inglaterra has been around for 30+ years; it's a classic, Old World, kind of British style hotel, still family owned and managed by the son, dapper looking Manuel Otero.
I took another quick look at it because of a Fodor recommendation.
It's a favorite of George Semler, the editor of Fodors Andalucía, who recommended it and its restaurante, "La Galería", in an article "Flavors of Al-Andalus" that he wrote for Saveur magazine (vol. 61). The article includes a recipe for a favorite Seville pastry they serve at the Inglaterra, "pestinos" (fried dough with anise-honey syrup). The tapas bar Casablanca is also recommended in the same article.
www.hotelinglaterra.es

You should be fine there, as well as at the Carmen.

A poster here recently found Madrid's Tryp Ambassador to offer a "great price" but "no ambience". You might want to do a text search on it. I do prefer this area near Opera and Plaza de Oriente (really pretty at night) to the bustling, congested Times Square-like Puerta del Sol, but that's just my very personal preference for downtown Madrid. The Tryp Ambassador is up a side street off the Plaza Isabel II square (Opera metro), where the Teatro Real sits.

I can't comment on Barcelona's Royal because I never stay on the Ramblas.

Hope this helps.

Maribel thank you for the input (as well as the bounty of information I've gathered from other postings answered by you!!) I'm second guessing the Tryp Ambassador and am looking into some of the ones you recommend in your "file". Since you really seem to not like the Royal in Barcelona, can you recommend something else there? I will unfortunately only have 2 1/2 days in Barcelona so location is high on the priority level. Thanks again! (By the way do you have a Barcelona file?)

ladybug98,
Yes, I do have a Barcelona file wih my hotel recommendations. If you would please email me at
[email protected]
I'll send it to you straight away.

Yikes,
Make that [email protected]