Hostal Casa Chueca

Very good hostal in the center,near Gran Via. Clean,silent and convenient. I liked everything,except the terrible stairs. They are just dangerous.

Casa Chueca is a lovely Hostel, for people who deserves having a typical spanish esperienze. In the centre of the cities, confortable, cleaned and vero kind people managed it. We kindly suggest it!!!!

To give a review of Casa Chueca as a guest I would need to explain that it was the last lodging–the 33rd to be exact– after a 40 day challenging Camino DeSantiago and I wanted to spend 4 days in Madrid before returning to my country. I would also have to explain that my plan to do the Camino was all about the beginning and doing it–could i do it?–and I didn’t have a plan for after I did ie how to complete my trip and get home. As a result I found myself exhausted on a train to Madrid trying to find a place where I could stay for four days beginning on a Saturday night. After many phone call inquiries all I had was a good understanding of what it means when they say the word “completa”–complete, full, nothing available. So when my last phone call was answered and after I explain my problem to the person on the other end of the phone and he says, “I am full for tonight but I’m going to find you a place to stay and you can come stay here tomorrow night for the balance of your trip.” My being felt a relief like the fresh cool breeze on that hot sweaty afternoon. So this is how I base my review of Casa Chueca. It all starts with the host and that is Mario and after 12 years working for somebody else he now runs a wonderful boutique hostel that I would give an A+. It is safe. It is clean. It is comfortable. It has amenities that made a difference to me – a small refrigerator, a hot water pot with herbal and caffeinated choices, a spotless toilet and shower room, an innovative use of hardware to dry washables, enough plastic hangers to dry them, a help yourself cabinet, a good quality of air and a simple pleasant unimposing decorative style that felt more like ‘casa’ then corporate. I did not know Chueca and came to discover it is like the West Village used to be in NYC —with great finds. The only open 24 hr Church (St Anton) in Madrid is nearby as is the best tortilla I had in Spain at El Bujo and arguably the best natural food store–Casa Terra. As I discovered, the centrality of Casa Chueca’s location is excellent. I could go to the Prado and the other museums with a 15 minute walk and when I left it was a 25 minute taxi to the airport. Comments made by others in review are noteworthy: It is true that finding the front door of the building was puzzling until i realized there was a sign that was above me–higher than most–“ultreia” i say to pilgrim visitors. There is not an elevator. For me and my 30 pound backpack it was just one more hill on the Camino. And as for the snarky remark that the owner does not live in Casa Chueca, I would say, ‘I didn’t know this until i needed towels and with a call and five minutes time, I had them. As for any comment about noise I can only ask ‘have you lived in a city before?’ and ‘have you spent any time in old parts of European cities?’ If you have then you know the routine and that the deep narrow canyon calles echo all sounds of life. I would end this review as I started by highlighting the person res