Photo Diego Puerta
Slowly Madrid hotels are reopening wide open its doors to adapt to this unusual summer. If a couple of months ago we revealed the premises of how the strategies were going to be for the hotels to face the situation once the confinement had disappeared, it is now when we can start reporting the reopening of many of them.
If until yesterday the capacity in the common areas could not exceed 60% of its total capacity, today, July 6, it is allowed to reach up to 75% . Factor that hotels like Totem , on the Golden Mile – which opened on July 1st – or Riu Plaza of Spain which also operates its 360º terrace located on the 26th floor of the hotel. Another of those returning to the fray is Only You Atocha, with a strategic location in front of the train station and prepared to face the situation, reinforcing the cleaning and disinfection processes, digitizing the check-in, also digitally managing the reservations and maintaining the required distance between the tables of its restaurants and common areas.
“Since the opening of Only YOU Hotel Atocha in 2016 we have become a key meeting point for the city of Madrid , a place where travelers and locals meet. We want it to continue to be that way, so we will adapt with all kinds of measures but without losing our welcoming spirit”, says Miguel Ángel Doblado, director of the accommodation. In addition, the hotel will offer free medical assistance insurance that will cover any contingency directly related to Covid-19 that may arise during the stay at the hotel.
Their Trotamundos restaurant, dedicated to traveling cuisine and under the tutelage of chef Javier Mora, will also reopen; as well as the exotic Sép7ima, on the roof, and the Malditos Bastardos barbershop. But, although its reopening is enough incentive for both tourists and locals to return this summer, it is September that brings new and curious promises, such as the launch your own bakery , from the hand of a prestigious Spanish confectioner –yet to be revealed– and the possibility of renting some of its spaces for hours to hold meetings or telecommute from your interior patio.
Nothing is what it used to be in the hotel universe, but the creativity of many is serving to make the "new normal" mean new ways of reinventing oneself. Not so bad.