Originally Posted by GiantCow

Have a short trip to Madrid in mid April and looks like starting mid March through the end of the year there's no standard room availability on points at all. Several months have suites available for points bookings but just as often, there's no award availability.

Looking through the past few pages, there's some mention of this hotel playing games with award availability. Is there any pattern to this, or guesses? I get that Madrid is a popular tourist destination but hard to believe the rest of the year is completely booked...