Regina Hotel Madrid

... med sea and then head on to Barcelona. We had to fly into Madrid on the 26th spent the day there and stayed at the hotel Regina which was right across the street from the metro station Sevilla. For the price it was a very nice hotel and right in the ...

... 6 hours due to time zones) at 500mph at 40000 feet for 7 and 1/2 hours. Then catching a flight at 9am in Frankfurt to Madrid, a 2 hr flight, we finally arrived. We met up with John and Dale in TO (they were lucky enough to have the 11:30am flight from ...

... west to Morocco, Canary Islands, Madeira and Malaga before heading back to Barcelona. We flew from Regina to Toronto to Frankfurt and then finally Madrid. Our flights from Toronto were on Lufthansa. A few thoughts on the flight: Toronto airport's free ...

... , and we headed to see the Atléticos play Sporting (Lisbon). We had been told that the divide between the Atléticos and Real Madrid is somewhat like the Chicago Mets and White Sox. We were not at all disappointed by the game. The crowd was enormous and ...

... ’ers, and the girl sitting next to me was Alicante bound.  BTW she, Jessica, is my roommate at the Hotel Regina for our stay in Madrid.  Any ways after a 7 hour flight of no sleep, we arrived in Madrid at 7am so 12 midnight Chicago ...

... in 2 hours in great comfort. Ticket was only $23E. We arrived at the main train station Atoche in Madrid and took the metro for a Euro to the same hotel we stayed in earlier - Tryp Gran Via. Travelling by train is so easy.... The weather report - ...

so madrid is my favorite city so far! i loved monte carlo and paris but madrid tops them both overall. after watching the soccer game with some spanish fans we woke up a little late and got started being tourists. we first went to the Prado museum which i ...

... day, but other than that we were free to roam the streets. Unfortunately this was my last night in Madrid, so I was a bit sad. We got back to Hotel Regina unpacked and took showers. Arthur Dovalina was our lecturer for the day. He is the general manager ...

... and down the main street to find the hotel. After tipping our taxi driver way too much money we made our way into the hotel. Hotel Regina was very classy looking. It was a lot different from our hostel we stayed at in Barcelona. I was relieved to see ...

... . there was entertainment which was hilarious. it was 3 spanish women singing aretha, then temptations AND LIONEL!! needless to say regina and i were great backup singers and dancers from our balcony. the singers applauded and waved to us before they left ...

... that they were lost and why couldnt one read the map right? and how can we not find the cathedral?--i mean screaming and regina and i just started dying laughing....then we noticed EVERYONE on every corner had their maps out and were arguing. it wasnt ...

... to watch the game with her friends.  She was not a big FIFA fan, but she explained quite a bit about Granada and Madrid.  Her favourite place was Barcelona by far and Granada to her had a lot of university students from may countries especially ...

... looking around and resting.  Unfortunately, I did not sleep at all on the plane :(  Anyway, I left London and arrived in Madrid around 7:30 last night.  However, guess what wasn't there????  Yep, my bags!  I had no clothes, ...

... , but we have free reentry 6-8 the rest of the week.  We plan to go back. We then walked around much of downtown Madrid and viewed the sights.  Almost every little window has a balcony---but not all of them are even accessible in any.  ...

... it seemed to pass quickly. The good news is I am safe and everything went very smoothly. I have checked in to my hotel in Madrid, where I will be staying until this Sunday. I am soaking in my surroundings already. The rest of my group will not arrive ...

... the short trip to her "flat." She lives in a two-bedroom apartment, sharing it with a young Italian woman who's studying medicine. Regina admitted on the Hospitality Club site that her English was limited, and she was right! We find it takes a long time ...

... cafe near Plaza San Martin, where we had coffee twice, and dinner on our last night in Buenos Aires. It was called Torcuato & Regina, and had great coffee with nibbles.  On Tuesday night, we had a great evening. we went to a tango show at ...