Marriott International’s European expansion continues this summer with reservations now open at its new Spanish properties. As previously reported on businesstraveller.com (see online news March 15), four new luxury Autograph Collection hotels have been added as a result of Marriott’s deal with Spanish Hotel Company AC Hotels.
The new AC Hotels by Marriott brand has some 86 mid-market modern hotels across the Iberian peninsula, with an additional four AC Hotels properties “...selected to join Autograph Collection due to their rich history and unique style as part of a recently announced joint venture with AC Hotels”, according to the press release. The four hotels are:
- The 51-room AC Santo Mauro in Madrid, which occupies the premises of an elegant late nineteenth-century building, once the residence of the Duke de Santo Mauro.
- The 50-room AC Palacio del Retiro in Madrid, housed in a twentieth century building and preserves the original moldings, woodwork and stained-glass windows of the original noble residence.
- The 75-room AC Palacio de Santa Paula is a true restoration masterpiece, located in the historic centre of Granada and is housed in the premises of what used to be the Santa Paula Convent, a Moorish house and a Spanish noble house, all fused into one magnificent building within walking distance of La Alhambra.
- The 102-room AC Baqueira Hotel & Spa, Marriott International’s first ski resort in Europe, located in Baqueira-Beret ski station looking over the impressive landscape of the Pyrenees.