I've stayed a couple of times on overnight connections. It's a little more convenient for public transport links to the airport than the Holiday Inn Express Alcobendas. Neither hotel operates an airport shuttle, and I guess the expense of maintaining a reasonably frequent service from early morning to evening would be prohibitive - unless local hotels combined resources to operate a shuttle with multiple drops and pick ups. As it is, provision of a shuttle would probably see a chunky increase in all room rates or an even chunkier charge for rides to and from the airport. I'm pretty sure the hotel will have considered the costs and benefits of a shuttle - and rejected the idea.


There's a pretty good bus service, albeit to/from T4. The stops are an easy walk of ten minutes or so from the hotel (pass the garage, turn right at the junction then across the road at the crossing before you get to the fire station). Then 15-ish minutes and a couple of stops to T4. I think buses run every 30 minutes, but reception staff should be able to tell you.

From T4 get off by the fire station - no road to cross


Alcobendas would be an odd place to stay for visiting the city centre. However, you can certainly find bus services direct to the "interchange" at Pl Castilla, although the stops are a bit of a walk from the hotel. If you are intent on getting to central Madrid, bus to T4 then metro is probably the time-efficient way to do it,