New luxury hotel brand to open first hotel in December

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BLESS Collection Hotels will open first luxury property in Madrid, designed by Lázaro Rosa-Violan…

A new luxury hotel brand from Palladium Hotel Group will open its first property this December 2018.

BLESS Hotel Madrid will be located on Calle de Velázquez in the heart of the city’s Salamanca district, offering 111 guestrooms, a rooftop pool, bowling alley, spa and gym, gourmet destination restaurant, three bars as well as conference spaces.

The BLESS Collection Hotels brand is built around the concept of Hedonistic Luxury

The property’s distinctly Mediterranean-styled interiors have been designed by renowned Spanish designer and architect Lázaro Rosa-Violan, whose vision is to create a quintessentially Madrilenian character with a contemporary slant. Key design features will include ‘sensory architecture’ that will define the hotel ambiance, collaborative work spaces and the all-important social areas.

The BLESS Collection Hotels brand is built around the concept of Hedonistic Luxury, a unique proposition designed for citizens of the world – modern travellers, sybarites and pleasure-seekers. In its own words “BLESS Collection Hotels worships the pursuit of happiness and the good life”. The brand will offer original and innovative services and features created to feed the spirit and allow guests to experience “the best of living”.  A personal butler will help guests prepare their perfect ‘BLESS’ bath experience each day, with a range of bath salts, soaps and essences, depending on skin type, mood and other factors.  And guests will be able to customise their “resting experience” through various features such as choosing their bed linen, pillow type and sleep scents.

The hotel will also present a non-stop programme of inspirational entertainment drawing on the destination’s cultural agenda – from art and culture to fashion and gastronomy.  These “happenings” will include from live music, fashion shows, pop-ups, performance & visual art and photography exhibitions.

Following opening of BLESS Hotel Madrid, the hotel brand is also slated to open BLESS Hotel Ibiza next year, with further hotels to be announced shortly.

Hamish Kilburn / 28.08.2018

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