Set near the Prado, historic monuments and some of the best tapas restaurants in town, the hotel was ranked as one of the world's best hotels by Conde Nast Traveller s 2010 Gold List. It is topped by an enormous stained glass dome, and the regal building has been a centre of Spanish society for almost 100 years and has a total 466 rooms, of which 418 are doubles and 48 are suites.