Part-hostel, part-hotel — a new hospitality category.
It's all about who and what we are. In Spanish, it's a word with a unique meaning: something different, with mixed roots. And that's us.
When we created the first Bastardo in Madrid, we threw away the hostel rulebook. Bastardo embraces everyone and delights in difference — a place for free-thinking, free-travelling, like minds to meet. Visitors, locals and the wantonly tribeless.
Whatever your need or budget — private or shared rooms, single travellers, couples or groups — at Bastardo, you are all our family.
Inside Bastardo
Madrid is trading today. The look, the feel and the mix of spaces that make the category work.
Bastardo Madrid — bar and kitchen
Bastardo Madrid — the building
Private rooms
Shared rooms
Social spaces
Bastardo is a joint venture with Juan Cena, founder and CEO of Bastardo Hostels, to scale the brand across the UK and Europe. The Madrid flagship is trading; a second property is under development in Granada; and we are actively evaluating opportunities in across London and other major European cities.
Beyond great hospitality, Bastardo plugs the gap left by short-let platforms — much-needed affordable stays that ease the pressure on long-stay housing stock, at price points that hold up whatever the economy does.
For Curate, Bastardo is more than a brand — it's what our model looks like when we own the operations as well as the strategy.
