Ian Schrager's Madrid debut. 200 rooms, the city's largest rooftop infinity pool, and a programme that takes the Madrid evening as seriously as the Madrid morning.
"For guests who want their Madrid loud, well-lit, and at full volume. The rooftop is one of the city's three or four genuine attractions — and the only one you can return to in your dressing gown."
The Madrid EDITION opened in April 2022 in a converted heritage block on Plaza de Celenque, two minutes' walk from Puerta del Sol and the same walking distance from the Royal Palace. It is the seventh property in the EDITION portfolio — the design-led joint venture between Ian Schrager and Marriott — and the first in continental Europe outside London. The building is the original 19th-century Banco de Vizcaya headquarters, and its scale and central position make it one of the largest five-star hotels in Madrid's old town. The conversion took five years and was the most ambitious hotel project to open in central Madrid since the Four Seasons.
The 200 guest rooms, 21 suites, and 2 penthouses use Schrager's signature aesthetic — a pared-back, residential, Mediterranean-influenced palette of natural wood, white plaster, linen, and the architectural details of the heritage building exposed rather than decorated. The room sizes are generous for a centro-Madrid property; many of the suites have terraces; the penthouses, on the eighth floor, have private terraces and partial use of the rooftop pool. The room hardware — bathrooms, technology, beds, climate control — is at the EDITION standard, which sits one tier below Four Seasons or Mandarin Oriental but well above what the rate band would suggest.
The hotel's five food and beverage outlets are properly considered. Oroya, the rooftop restaurant by chef Diego Muñoz, runs an Asian-Latin fusion programme that has become one of Madrid's most consistently full reservation books. The Punch Room — a recreation of the original Punch Room concept from EDITION London — is the late-night cocktail venue and is open to non-guests on a reservation basis. The Lobby Bar runs the early-evening programme. The fourth-floor pool bar — open in season — is built around the Madrid EDITION's defining feature: the largest rooftop infinity pool in the city, on the fourth floor, with views across the Old Town toward the Royal Palace. It is the single best argument for booking the hotel and the reason its summer rates push above the equivalent room at the Mandarin Oriental Ritz on certain weekends.
The Madrid EDITION is the city's leading destination-design hotel: a category that did not really exist in Madrid before its arrival, and that the EDITION has created the template for. It is the natural choice for guests who would rather not stay at a Belle Époque hotel; for groups who want a single property to stay, eat, and party at; for solo travellers who want a hotel that programmes its own evenings; and for couples who want central Madrid at a price point well below the Four Seasons or the Mandarin Oriental Ritz, with the rooftop and the bar programme as compensation. It is not the right choice for guests who want a quiet historic hotel — the building is not that, and the bar programme runs late.
The Madrid EDITION is the city's strongest bachelor/bachelorette base. The rooftop pool, the Punch Room, the central location for night-life, and the suite categories that work for groups of friends produce the kind of weekend the property was designed to host. Book a connecting suite arrangement on a high floor; ask the hotel to coordinate the rooftop reservation; the rest of the city's late-night programme is within ten minutes' walk.
The EDITION is the best Madrid solo-retreat hotel for guests who want company without committing to it. The Lobby Bar fills with a single-traveller-friendly crowd from early evening; the Punch Room is structured for solo seating; the rooftop pool is a single-traveller-positive space in a way most luxury pools are not. A four-night solo programme — the Prado, Reina Sofía, and Thyssen by day, the EDITION by night — is one of the easier solo-traveller weekends in continental Europe.
For anniversary stays in Madrid that lean modern rather than Belle Époque, the Madrid EDITION's penthouse and the Oroya rooftop dinner make an unexpectedly serious case. A penthouse booking with private terrace access, an Oroya tasting menu, and a Punch Room nightcap is the urban-anniversary programme without any of the museum-circuit obligation that a stay at the Ritz tends to imply.
Plaza de Celenque 2
28013 Madrid
Spain
Two minutes from Puerta del Sol
200 rooms · 21 suites · 2 penthouses
Premier Rooms from €600/night
Suites from €1,200/night
Penthouses from €4,000/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Opened: April 2022
Madrid's largest rooftop infinity pool
Oroya restaurant (Diego Muñoz)
Punch Room cocktail bar
5 F&B outlets
Spa & gym
From €600/night. Penthouses and rooftop-adjacent suites book first. Summer rooftop weekends sell out two months ahead.
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