Seminars and company events
Gran Hotel Inglés takes board meetings, presentations, networking evenings, private dinners and exclusive receptions for small and medium groups in the center of Madrid. The hotel stands at Calle de Echegaray 8, in the Barrio de las Letras, and has received guests since 1883. It belongs to the Hidden Hotels collection.
For company use, the main room is the Salón Santa Ana y Ángel: two rooms of 45 square meters each that work separately for parallel sessions or open into one space of more than 90 square meters for a presentation or a press event. The library suits a more private meeting or a reception in a nineteenth century literary setting. After the working day, a group can move to the lobby bar for drinks or to one of the private dining rooms for dinner without leaving the building.
Rooms and capacities
The hotel lists five spaces for groups and companies. The Salón Santa Ana y Ángel, described above, is the meeting room. The Salón Virginia Woolf consists of two private dining rooms covering more than 40 square meters in total, used for celebrations and private meals. Nuestra biblioteca, the library, is offered for exclusive events. LobByto Heritage, the lobby bar, serves as a meeting point and a setting for social gatherings. Casa Lobo combines a restaurant and a buffet room with a view of the kitchen, and has its own entrance separate from the hotel, which makes it suitable for a private event that should stay discreet. The hotel does not publish seated or standing figures for each space, so the right room depends on the format and the guest count shared at the time of the request.
Accommodation
The hotel offers rooms and suites above the event spaces, so speakers and guests can stay in the same building. The interiors were redesigned with Rockwell Group.
Catering
Catering is in-house. LobByto, the restaurant and cocktail bar, serves reworked Madrid cuisine, with cocido madrileño at weekends and afternoon tea. The bar runs a signature cocktail list and live music from Thursday to Sunday, and the hotel programs flamenco nights on Thursdays and swing and rock and roll nights on Fridays and Saturdays, which can give a group dinner a ready-made evening.
History and setting
The building dates from 1883. The hotel says it was the first hotel in Madrid with a restaurant and one of the first buildings in the city with electric lighting. Its literary references, from the library to the room named after Virginia Woolf, echo the Barrio de las Letras, the historic quarter of Madrid's writers.
Getting there
The hotel is in the historic center, a short walk from Puerta del Sol and Plaza de Santa Ana, with metro and commuter rail at Sol. Atocha station, for high-speed trains, is within a short taxi ride, and Madrid-Barajas airport is about 20 minutes away by car outside rush hour.
