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Nice town south of Madrid, it has a lovely park and palace, a little bit run down in parts, this could be rectified if the local council made the business owners clean up the outside of their properties

The royal palace and gardens are a gem. Very impressive. As with just about everywhere in Spain, a section of the population is trying to ruin the country by spraying graffiti everywhere. What I do not understand is why they allow this to happen.

Aranjuez is an interesting place to go. If you come from a dry place, its royal garden's will amaze you. If you decide to visit its palace you'll be rewarded, just do it before you visit the palace of Madrid because if you don't it will seem like it's poor cousin. Aranjuez does not have a night life, it's more family oriented and after 23:00 there are very few places to go out to, and even less places to eat. There is no cinema or a theme park near. There are various little parks for the kids. Away from the few central monuments you can tell it's a municipality than is run badly. Aranjuez is dirty, spiced with the feces of its pets in every single street, and a cleaning service that is not effective at all. At least it's a safe place for travellers and very well communicated with Madrid but almost cut off from Toledo.

Aranjuez was a very pleasant surprise for us, it is a clean, pretty and well laid-out town, with a really beautiful Palace and gardens. I would imagine most people would overlook this town in favour of its near neighbour Madrid, but we were looking for a quick stop-over point that was outside of Madrid and this town was really pleasant and a great choice, we both said we would stop here again in future, but for a longer time to check it out probably and appreciate it.

The hotel is in fabulous position and the bed was extremely comfortable. The dining hall at breakfast did not have windows, I would not eat there again. There are fabulous well priced restaurants a ten minute walk away on the river. Exquisite. The palace is wonderful and literally next door! I have recommended this hotel and it’s area wholeheartedly to friends.

We were staying there because one of our family was going there to work for a year in a school. We hadn't heard of Aranjuez before going but decided to base ourselves there as we were there to help them get set up. We were very pleasantly surprised as the town is just lovely. Off the main tourist track but has lots of lovely shops and restaurants and beautiful parks and historic sites to visit. All within walking distance of the apartment we were staying in. The town also has good public transport with rail links to the centre of Madrid. Train station was about 15 minutes walk from where we were staying. The palace and grounds are lovely and there are working fountains everywhere you look. We ate in several of the restaurants and cafes. All very good. Our trip was at the end of September and the warmth (mid to high 20's) and sunshine was also very welcome at that time of year.