Hostal Besaya, Madrid, Spain

Good Location, very clean, Very friendly Staff

Small room; however it’s a good value. Clean, comfortable and extremely good service. We were very late, had all kinds of travel issues. The front desk gentleman, Martin, was extremely gracious and went out of his way to help us. We were there only one night, great location, and very little street noise. We were very pleased.

We stayed in a double room with private bathroom. I suggest you do this for every stay. The room was good and it had a small balcony with a nice view. The bathroom was small but that's something you should already know about all bathrooms in Europe's hostels. It was clean, though and the shower wasn't THAT small. They provide a large and medium towels, as well as a shower gel and bar soap. It seems to have A/C but we never had the remote in the room. To be honest, we didn't ask for it because we were hardly in the room and at night it felt warm and humod in the room but we opened the balcony and that helped. Of course it was loud feom having the door open so we had to close it eventually. Overall the stay was good and we were just there for 2 days.

This was a well located hotel, and the room was clean and had a beautiful view. We didn't realize that our room had a shower and sink but no bathroom - this would have been fine, but getting to the bathroom involved walking through the reception area, and on the last day we stayed they were repainting the hall so just to use the bathroom you had to walk around a workman on a ladder and over paint-stained tarp. The room was extremely small (difficult to walk around the bed to the window) and it's always a bit odd to shower in a shared room. I thought that for the price, the room could have been bigger and included an en suite bathroom or at least a nearer-by bathroom. But still, the location and view were lovely, and it seemed like the elevator was only for the hotel (which is on the 8th floor of a building), so we never had to wait for it. Staff was helpful.