This high tech hotel has a rooftop pool with views right across the city and it also has a beauty spa and treatment floor. The hotel's main restaurant Lagrimas Negras pays homage to Spanish wines and Mediterranean gourmet cuisine.
Telephone: +34 91 744 5400
Price: from EUR 189
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The first thing that strikes you about the Puerta America is its immensley garish orange, yellow and red canvas window blinds liberally plastered in poliglot passages from Paul Eluard`s epic poem "Liberté". This is no ordinary hotel. Once you get over the initial shock the lobby areas seem pretty tame by comparison, a goldfish bowl cocktail bar near the main foyer looks out onto manicured landscaped gardens with private security guards patrolling the perimeter - keeping the riff-raff at bay.
Gliding up to your vertiginous room you could be forgiven for mistaking your floor for twelve themed sci-fi film sets when the elevator doors gently slide open on each of the uniquely stunning floors, each designed by a raft of prestigious modern masters. The architectonic roll call reads like a designers` who`s who; Zaha Hadid, Marc Newson, Norman Foster, David Chipperfield...
Newson`s floor exposes soft-edged furniture in his trademark orange while Richard Gluckman opts for the idea of boxes within boxes and Kathryn Findlay is inspired by Japan`s silent and sensitive "love hotels". David Chipperfield`s rooms all have black terracotta flooring and the large-scale pornographic black and white prints by Japanese photographer Araki adorn the uppermost floor which also houses the pool and fitness spa area.
The hotel`s main restaurant close to the main entrance is cleverly clad in glass, steel and black mica by interior designer Christian Liaigre - its extensive menu pays homage to Spanish wines and Mediterranean gourmet cuisine. Perhaps the only drawback is that the hotel is huddled right on a busy four-lane ring road 15 equidistant minutes from Barajas airport and the city centre.
