The Fénix Tryp Hotel of Madrid !!!

Posted in Europe, Madrid, Spain

I love to take you back to my wonderful dear Madrid. Another soft spot in my heart and always come back to it, lucky me. I have written many posts on my dear city and you can tell my inclination for it. It never cease over the years since that day I came upon it in 1971.  The City has many memorable spots since youths days and continue to this retiree guy, I like to tell you on the Fénix Tryp Hotel of Madrid !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

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We, stayed in a nice hotel when I first took my girlfriend (1990)  later wife and now late dear wife Martine. It was a moment to impress the new girl and book the Fénix Tryp Hotel at Calle Hermosilla 2 just after the Plaza de Colon with windows looking over it.  Now it is a Melia Hotels property. The hotel is an icon for us as well. We even have visited couple times afterward! Deco are the same.  This was a gorgeous hotel  then part of Tryp and now part of the Mélia group, and The Leading Hotels of the World service status. The breakfast were faboulous, and the views from the top magnificent, the lobby is just the same just beautiful. Of course, pictures are from the Mélia period.

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The anecdote here is trying to impress my girlfriend booking here after all other hotels were booked and I driving from Madrid to Toledo and back , the Savoy hotel staff told us there were rooms available at the Fénix. So I booked without looking at the price! (very young in love) at the check out the bill came to over 1000 dollars in 1990!!! My girlfriend Martine needed to pay half lol!! So much for the showing off!!! but love was in the air and nothing stopped us then. I missed her now after passing away in 2018 from the lousy cancer. RIP. The hotel is an icon for me each time in Madrid need to stop by it and keep showing it to our boys. Memories forever ! This one is original from 1990!!

madrid Fénix Tryp hotel lobby PF sep90 now Crowne Plaza

One of the classics of my Madrid, as for more than 60 years it has been a favorite place to stay for the rich and famous. Among them, Gregory Peck, who attended the opening, Gloria Swanson, Rita Hayworth, Cary Grant, and Charles Bronson were captivated by the classic decor and aristocratic splendour of the hotel. But the most remembered visit is that of the Beatles, who chose the Hotel Fenix to stay in 1965, when they came to give their only concert in Madrid.

The official Fénix Gran Mélia Hotel:  https://www.melia.com/en/hotels/spain/madrid/fenix-gran-melia

The Madrid tourist office on the now Fenix Gran Meliá Hotel: https://www.esmadrid.com/en/accommodation/gran-melia-fenix

There you go folks, another wonderful story post on my dear Madrid ; come to see it for more than the buildings, and you will be glad your read my post. To me it will always be the Fénix Tryp Hotel of Madrid…. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Fénix Tryp Hotel of Madrid !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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Published by pedmar10

I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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