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A design hotel in a 19th-century palace in Madrid's Chueca, with award-winning interiors by Lázaro Rosa-Violán, 125 rooms and a cocktail bar in a former bookshop.
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Award Winner 2015
World's Best Design Boutique Hotel
Need To Know
- 125 individually designed rooms and suites, from Petit Barquillo to lofts, suites and a penthouse
- Set in a 19th-century palace, once home to Elvira, Marquesa of Alhama, restored as a design hotel
- Interiors by Barcelona designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán, in a blue-and-white palette over the old bones
- YOUNIQUE restaurant, the Padrino cocktail bar in a former bookshop, and a gluten-free bakery
- A Thai-style wellness room, a gym and meeting and event spaces
- On Calle Barquillo in Chueca; about 20 minutes from Barajas airport by car
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The design — award-winning interiors by Barcelona's Lázaro Rosa-Violán, a blue-and-white palette over the palace's old bones, with vintage suitcases, azulejo tiles, Chesterfields and Jonathan Adler pieces throughout.
- The Padrino bar — a cocktail bar set behind the protected façade of a former bookshop, the Padrino Librería, whose original woodwork and name have been kept; a nod to the building's past.
- The rooms — 125 of them, each individually designed, from courtyard-facing Petit Barquillo to balconied Premiums, beam-ceilinged FabuLofts and the Suiteheart with its spiral stair and library.
- The location — on Calle Barquillo in Chueca and Salesas, among Madrid's best bars, boutiques and restaurants, walking distance to Gran Vía, Recoletos and the Prado.
- The table — all-day Mediterranean cooking at YOUNIQUE under chef Carlos Martín, a gluten-free bakery in Celicioso, and breakfast served right through the day to suit any plan.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Only YOU Boutique Hotel
€186.50 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Calle Barquillo, 21, 28004, Madrid, Spain.
Travel Info
Only YOU Boutique sits on Calle Barquillo in the Chueca and Salesas district of central Madrid, near Gran Vía, Paseo de Recoletos and the Prado. Madrid–Barajas airport is about 20 minutes by car, or roughly 35–40 by metro. The centre is best explored on foot.
Nearby Places
Approx. 15 minute drive to the Airport Tavern by car.
5km
Last Updated: 2026-06-13
Expert Review
Origins
Only YOU Boutique stands on Calle Barquillo in the Chueca and Salesas district of central Madrid, in a stately nineteenth-century palace that was once the home of Elvira, Marquesa of Alhama. The building's old bones are still on show — high archways and wooden beams, azulejo tiles, marble and moulded ceilings — and its former central courtyard is now a glass-roofed lobby lounge at the heart of the hotel.
The transformation is the work of Lázaro Rosa-Violán, the Barcelona designer, and it is what made the hotel's name. He took the blue-and-white of traditional Spanish tilework as a palette and layered the palace with an eclectic, theatrical mix — vintage suitcases at the door, Chesterfield armchairs, Jonathan Adler pieces, modern art and playful detail down to the jewellery boxes in the rooms — to create the look that has won the hotel international design awards. The effect is one of relaxed, slightly mazelike glamour, closer to a fashionable private club than a conventional city hotel.
Behind one protected stretch of the façade sits the building's nicest piece of memory: the Padrino cocktail bar, kept in a former bookshop whose original woodwork and "Padrino Librería" name remain in place. Around it the hotel runs to 125 individually designed rooms, an all-day Mediterranean restaurant, a gluten-free bakery and a small Thai-style spa — a large, design-led hotel that wears its history lightly in one of the city's most fashionable quarters. Now part of the Only YOU group, it remains, in feel, very much its own place.
Top Secret
The bar is the building's best story. The Padrino cocktail bar occupies what was once a neighbourhood bookshop, the Padrino Librería, and rather than strip it out the hotel kept the shopfront — the elegant carved woodwork of the façade is culturally protected, and the original bookshop name still runs above it. Settle in with a gin or a signature cocktail among the books and woodwork, and you are drinking in a little preserved piece of old Barquillo that most guests walk straight past on their way in.
The Review
Only YOU Boutique is one of the more characterful places to stay in central Madrid, and the reason is design. Set in a nineteenth-century palace on Calle Barquillo, in the hip Chueca and Salesas district, it was reimagined by the Barcelona designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán into an eclectic, blue-and-white, slightly theatrical interior that earned it international design awards — all vintage suitcases, azulejo tiles, Chesterfields and playful art, layered over the building's original archways and beams. It is large, at 125 rooms, but it feels more like a fashionable members' club than a big hotel.
The rooms run from compact courtyard-facing Petit Barquillo doubles up to balconied Premiums, the wood-beamed FabuLofts and the book-lined Suiteheart with its spiral stair, all soundproofed and well equipped. Downstairs the public spaces are the draw: the glass-roofed former courtyard for all-day eating, the YOUNIQUE restaurant for Mediterranean cooking, a gluten-free bakery in Celicioso, and the Padrino cocktail bar tucked into a preserved former bookshop. Breakfast runs right through the day, a small kindness that suits any itinerary.
It suits design-minded travellers and couples who want style and a central address over resort calm or quiet — this is a busy, social, city hotel rather than a retreat. The location is its other great asset: Chueca's bars and boutiques at the door, Gran Vía, Recoletos and the Prado within a walk, and the whole of central Madrid on foot. For design and a brilliant central base, it is among the most characterful choices in the city.
