Line #10 Series/GranHotel


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Knowing the truth will change their lives." [[note]]From left to right/top down: Alicia, Julio, Ángela, Andrés, Belén, Ayala, Diego, and Doña Teresa[[/note]]]]
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4	''Gran Hotel'' is a Spanish TV series (produced and aired by Antena 3) that takes place in beginning-of-the-century northern Spain, in the fictitious Gran Hotel. It stars Yon González and Creator/AmaiaSalamanca, among others, and is filmed in several points in Santander, with the Palacio de la Magdalena standing as the eponymous Gran Hotel.
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6	The series has been well received by both critics and the public, reaching an 18.5% of share during its first season, as well as being broadcast in France, the United Kingdom and Russia. The series concluded after three seasons.
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8	The story begins in 1905, with the mysterious disappearance and presumed death of Cristina Olmedo (Paula Prendes), a maid at the Gran Hotel. Six months later, her brother Julio (Yon Gonzalez) arrives to investigate said disappearance and gets a job at the hotel, becoming friends with Andrés (Llorenç Gonzalez), the son of staff manager Ángela (Concha Velasco), as well as with Alicia (Amaia Salamanca), the daughter of the Gran Hotel's owners, the Alarcón family. Julio and Alicia fall in love, living a passionate romance that is impossible due to their class differences, while they investigate the web of death, lies and secrets kept within the Gran Hotel's walls.
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10	A very loose [[ForeignRemake American adaptation]] titled ''Series/GrandHotel'', with Creator/EvaLongoria as executive producer, premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} during the 2018--19 midseason.
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12	!!This series has examples of the following tropes:
13	* AbusiveParents: In the majority of the serial, Teresa de Alarcón only cared about the wealthiest status of her family, while treating her children in many miserable ways. For example, [[spoiler: she gave her youngest daughter to a man who helped her ''kill'' her husband, as part of a deal of making his death non-suspicious and more "natural"]].
14	%%* AfterActionHealingDrama: Diego, Julio.
15	* AfterActionPatchup: Julio is treated under this a few times (usually helped by Alicia), after getting involved in many fights.
16	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Julio used to be a thief before he started working in the Gran Hotel, and he is usually fighting in the tavern for money, information, or just because he wants to vent his emotions. That also includes his impulsive nosey habits into the mysteries of the hotel. No wonder why Alicia or Isabel (and presumably Maite) fall for him.
17	* AlliterativeName: Alicia Alarcón [[spoiler: and her half-brothers, Ángel and Andrés]].
18	* AllTakeAndNoGive: Diego insists on Alicia to trust him, but he gives her no trust in return. No one of them really deserves to be trusted (especially since they hide their own secrets), but the dynamic that Diego is trying to set up seems very unfair for Alicia.
19	* AmateurSleuth: What drives the resolve of many of the mysteries surrounding the Gran Hotel is that if it wasn't for Alicia or Julio, who aren't trained detectives or even part of the police force, many of the villains [[spoiler:(especially Diego)]] would have "won" That is, considering that Ayala wouldn't have managed the whole cases on his own.
20	* AmbitionIsEvil: The series clearly shows that whoever tries to climb the greasy pole of wealth and power, things aren't going to come their way at the end. Just ask that to some of the characters, such as Cristina, Pascual, Belén and Diego. [[spoiler: They all end up dead.]]
21	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Julio, when he is sure Diego is about to [[DyingDeclarationOfLove slaughter]] him.]]
22	* AntagonistInMourning: [[spoiler: Diego buries his own mother after she is murdered by the mysterious figure's intent on getting revenge against him. Just ''after'' a brief long-awaited reunion Diego had with her.]]
23	* ApronMatron: Ángela is seen and respected as a powerful (sometimes more as a [[MamaBear mother]] than a chief) figure for the servants, since she has been working in the hotel for a long time.
24	%%* ArchEnemy: Various configurations of Diego, Teresa, Sofía, Belén, and Jésus.
25	* ArrangedMarriage: It's Spain in the earlier 20th Century, and this was a normal thing that happened with wealthiest families, as exemplified with the Alarcón family, especially for the power and [[NobilityMarriesMoney other benefits]] this method would bring to them. Alicia and Diego's marriage arrangement, however, [[spoiler: was the result of a deal that Teresa had with him, after he helped her in the murder of her husband. And Diego was going for the ''power'' that the hotel symbolized... one of the reasons why Carlos Alarcón thought he wasn't good for his daughter]].
26	* AssholeVictim: Don Carlos and [[spoiler: Cristina]] turned out to be not the "angels" their own families thought they were. That doesn't mean that they deserved their fates, though.
27	%%* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: [[spoiler: Javier.]]
28	* BabyDollBaby: Laura has a doll that she treats as a real baby.
29	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Julio and Alicia and also Laura and Javier]] in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
30	* BatmanGambit: Teresa uses Alfredo's pride to get him to do whatever she wants, [[spoiler: especially when his family went broke.]]
31	%%* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Happens twice, to [[spoiler:Pascual and Garrido]].
32	* BarBrawl: The nearby Cantaloa's tavern sets up a few of these as part of their nocturnal gambling games.
33	%%* BeardOfEvil: Diego.
34	* BestServedCold: It takes [[spoiler: Jesús/Samuel]] twelve years to get revenge on [[spoiler: Diego/Adrian, after the death of Marta Santos]].
35	* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Just before Belén gets captured by Detective Ayala, when her plans were revealed as part of a set up that Andrés helped to plan with the detectives and Bazán, she decides to kill herself by throwing herself from a cliff.]]
36	* BigDamnKiss: Julio and Alicia have several of these, usually complete with swelling orchestral music.
37	* BigFancyHouse: The Gran Hotel is more of a house that serves as a hotel in all its means. The real location is ''actually'' a real life palace!
38	* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Alarcón family, by a lot.
39	** Don Carlos wasn't the loveable father and husband that Alicia thought he was. [[spoiler: Don Carlos had an affair with Ángela, whom he had two offsprings: Ángel and Andrés. He also acknowledged Andrés as his son, while Ángel was "dead" to him. His marriage with Teresa wasn't the best, either... especially when he started poisoning her to have more control over the hotel]].
40	** Doña Teresa, the EvilMatriarch, worried more about her family's wealthy status as owner of the hotel. [[spoiler:And after she murdered her husband, she didn't care to "sell" Alicia to Diego, who helped her in hiding the truth about his murder. She [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone eventually resents her decisions]] after her ''whole'' family loses her trust.]]
41	** Sofía's marriage problems with Alfredo over a FakePregnancy is only the tip of the iceberg. [[spoiler: She killed two women -- Alfredo covers her up for Cristina, but the last one was killed out of [[{{Yandere}} jealousy by her]]. She also gets into an affair with father Graú... which becomes the seal of a possible divorce with Alfredo]].
42	** Javier is the BlackSheep of the family, and as the middle son he resents a lot his parents' preferences over his sisters [[spoiler: and Andrés, when he found out that his own father treated him more as a WellDoneSonGuy]]. He thinks of himself as TheCasanova and he is practically useless for the society, unless he is set for an ArrangedMarriage.
43	* {{Blackmail}}: All over the place if it concerns one of many secrets of the hotel and its owners.
44	* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: Beatriz.]] Later [[spoiler: Julio]] after receiving some WorstAid.
45	* BookcasePassage: Instead of a bookcase, this happens in a closet that leads [[spoiler: to a secret room that was originally Don Carlos' hidden study]].
46	* BoomHeadshot: A lot of the mooks and shady characters end up this way, even when fired upon by less-than-expert marksmen. Notable examples include [[spoiler: Pascual and El Oso]].
47	%%* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Julio, Alicia, and Maite, at different points.
48	* TheButlerDidIt: And it ''all'' happens BeneathSuspicion. [[spoiler: It ended up being the maître of the hotel. ''Twice''. The Killer of the Gold Knife? It was Don Benjamín, the good old head waiter that worked in the hotel for more than two decades. The mysterious figure who kidnapped Alicia and was seeking revenge on Diego? Jesús (whose real name is Samuel Arriaga) who was "recently" transferred after Don Benjamín was found guilty of the former case.]].
49	* CallingTheOldManOut: Alicia has an amazing round of this with Teresa in S3.
50	* CaptiveDate: [[spoiler: Diego lights some candles and brings dinner for Alicia on a tray under a pretty silver dome. It would be romantic if she wasn't locked up in an underground cave where no one can hear her screams.]]
51	* CarpetRolledCorpse: [[spoiler: The "Diplomate Overdose" incident.]] PlayedForLaughs when the corpse in the carpet is lowered out of a window.
52	* TheCasanova: Javier Alarcón is not afraid to show his "charms", even though they also tend to run against him, once knowledge of him spreads around Cantaloa.
53	* CatchYourDeathOfCold: [[spoiler: Juanito dies after he was exposed to a cold rainy day.]] This being the earlier 20th century, it's expected this would happen to many, due to the limited access to medical attention and medicine that couldn't have existed back in the day.
54	* CharacterDevelopment:
55	** Teresa, of all people. During the last season, she realizes the mistakes she has made with her family and the hotel's management, and eventually [[spoiler:accepts that her daughter is in love with a low-class man]].
56	** Javier goes from a conceited brat to a [[spoiler:HappilyMarried father of three children]].
57	** Alicia gets better at standing up for herself and eventually does what she wants rather than what she should have.
58	* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: You wouldn't be expecting less of a murder and mystery drama series that takes place in earlier 1900s. There's ''too'' many deaths, some as results of murder, or some others as result from illnesses...
59	* CharacterOutlivesActor: Juan Luis Galiardo passes away before the arc of his character, Ernesto, closes up (LeftHanging loose ties of his possible romance with Ángela). Ernesto leaves the hotel, while leaving behind a letter explaining his motives, as he is seen riding off into the sunset.
60	* TheChessmaster:
61	** The big one would be Teresa when she is moving her [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney influence powers around]]... until ''certain'' someone ends up blocking up her way.
62	** Diego thinks he is one, [[spoiler: but he is eventually HoistByHisOwnPetard as Jesús Cisneros a.k.a. Samuel Arriaga enters into scene when he starts threatening him]].
63	* ChristianityIsCatholic: Roman Catholicism plays a key part in the plot, as it is the reason why Alicia can't just divorce Diego through legal means. She has to [[spoiler: prove that he was using a false name to nullify their marriage]].
64	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Teresa. It's more easier to count how many times she ''did not'' backstab someone.
65	** Belén seems to be incapable of not backstabbing everyone around her either.
66	* CleanPrettyChildbirth:
67	** Justified in Sofía's case, since she pulls it off for [[FakePregnancy obvious reasons]].
68	** Averted by Belén because she didn't know that she was [[spoiler: having twins at first]] and because the midwife left her to her own luck [[spoiler: as soon as the first twin was born, since the second was received by Andrés]].
69	%%* ClingyJealousGirl: Isabel.
70	%%* CondensationClue: Alicia's bathroom mirror.
71	%%* ConfessInConfidence: Sofía, to Padre Grau.
72	* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: [[spoiler: Although Don Benjamín was a murderer, Alicia knew that he was devoted to his work as a maître, and that he worked very closely to her father, even before his sudden death. Since he was already arrested, she negotiated with him in a possible manner that she would keep supporting his family (without telling them that he was a convicted SerialKiller), and he hands over a very important clue related to Don Carlos' murder: the bottle of arsenic that was used to poison him.]]
73	* ContaminationSituation: The cholera outbreak that suddenly starts threatening the lives of many of the servants and guests of the hotel, in late S3's episodes.
74	%%* ConvenientComa: Andrés.
75	* CoolOldLady:
76	** Lady, who has been living in the hotel for many years and is a friend to the Alarcón family.
77	** Ángela has been the hotel's head housekeeper for years, raised her child on her own, and eventually [[spoiler: becomes the hotel's director]].
78	* {{Cuckold}}:
79	** Diego's evil side is explained by being this [[spoiler:in both his marriages]].
80	** [[spoiler: Alfredo when Sofía cheats with Father Grau]].
81	%%* CutHimselfShaving
82	* DaddysGirl: Alicia loved her father very much (and she was his favorite child), that she couldn't believe all the secrets that he had been hiding up until his death. She eventually realized that he wasn't the great father-husband figure that she thought he was, but she was very determined to find the real reason he died.
83	%%* DancesAndBalls
84	* DarkSecret: The Gran Hotel keeps tons of secrets under its roof -- People aren't who they are supposed to be. There's ambition and backstabbing in between. There also lies affairs and many murders.
85	%%* DeathGlare: Ángela and Teresa are pretty good at this.
86	%%* DefiantCaptive
87	* DeliveryGuy: Andrés, [[spoiler: after Belén has been left to die by the shifty midwife, not realizing it's twins.]]
88	* DestroyTheEvidence: While Teresa is very good at this, she [[spoiler: fails to get rid of Celia Velledur's wallet, since Alicia and Ángela find it in her room.]]
89	%%* DeusAngstMachina: Often happens to Alicia and Andrés.
90	%%* DetectiveDrama
91	* DidNotDieThatWay: One of the mysteries that gets set it's that Carlos Alarcón didn't die naturally as it was told to Alicia. [[spoiler: He was actually poisoned as a murder attempt by her mother, Teresa]].
92	* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: Bazán, who was actually acting under Belén's orders, to convict and execute Andrés for her "supposed" murder, just to get some part of the Alarcón's inheritance.]]
93	* DisappearedDad:
94	** Carlos Alarcón, Alicia's father, died some time before the series starts.
95	** Andrés' father has been absent from his life ever since he was a child, [[spoiler:until it is revealed that Carlos Alarcón was his biological father all along. In Season 2, Ángela's husband appears, but he does not reveal his identity to Andrés.]]
96	* DisposableSexWorker: Jimena and the girl whose body is believed to be [[spoiler:Belén's]] are both sex workers and their deaths fit this trope, with very little narrative focus on their deaths compared to other deaths.
97	%%* DistressBall: PUT IT DOWN, ALICIA.
98	* DistressedDamsel: Alicia frequently falls into this role, and even Maite is [[spoiler: threatened by Diego and Bazán, and is held hostage by Ezekiel.]]
99	* DomesticAbuse:
100	** [[spoiler: Diego abuses Alicia, when she regrets his affection towards him because that's not what "love" is to her. It does end up badly a few times. And one time, Julio was so fed up (enough to kill him) because of what he did to her.]]
101	** [[spoiler: Carlos and Teresa's marriage was already on the rocks (him being in adultery relationships, and Teresa wanting more control of the hotel) when he started poisoning her.]]
102	* DramaBomb: Every other episode where you are expecting good things are going to happen to everyone... except they don't. And there was [[spoiler: an ''actual bomb'', too.]]
103	* DuelToTheDeath: After Javier sleeps with two sisters [[spoiler: resulting in one pushing the other out of a window and then killing herself]], their father challenges him to one of these.
104	%%* DysfunctionJunction
105	* EarnYourHappyEnding: At the end, almost everyone gets their happy ending -- [[spoiler: Arriaga gets his revenge, while Teresa recovers the ownership of the hotel. Alfredo and Sofía move to Santander and he becomes the city's mayor. The detectives are awarded for their successful investigation. Andrés and Maite get married, Javier and Laura save their marriage and have three children, and Julio and Alicia get married and have a kid.]]
106	* TheEdwardianEra: Only more like Alfonsian, given that this is Spain rather than Great Britain. King Alfonso XIII even turns up as a guest of the hotel.
107	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Diego and his mother, Sagrario, who he hasn't seen in more than a decade... [[spoiler: and then she is murdered by a third party, Samuel Arriaga, just to make him suffer as part of his revenge.]]
108	* EvilCripple: "How many one-armed men are trying to kill me?" [[spoiler: Averted when Pablo/Juan turns out not to be evil.]]
109	* FakeAristocrat: Julio pretends to be a guest named Señor Mollins.
110	* FakePregnancy: Sofía was infertile, but wanted to have children with Alfredo to somehow fix their almost broken marriage. And with guidance of her mother, she was going to have one, one way or another.
111	* FakingTheDead:
112	** Cristina faked her death because she knew a secret that could effectively ruin the Alarcón family (or, at least, Teresa and her accomplice, Diego). [[spoiler: But then she is killed... by Sofía, no less]].
113	** [[spoiler: Belén]] does this in order to frame [[spoiler: Andrés, to get him executed and steal his legitimate inheritance. However, Ayala fakes the execution and her plan is eventually unravelled.]]
114	%%* FemmeFatale: Belén and Cecilia. [[spoiler: Samuel's sister Clara]] also has shades of this.
115	%%* FetishizedAbuser: Belén to Andrés.
116	* FingerInTheMail: [[spoiler: Javier ''actually'' fakes a blackmail, when he borrows [[{{Fingore}} one of Garrido's fingers]].]]
117	* FireForgedFriends: Julio, Alicia, Andrés, and Maite (though Alicia had already formed friendships with the latter two before things got messy.)
118	%%* FormalFullArrayOfCutlery
119	* FourTemperamentEnsemble
120	** Sanguine: Andrés
121	** Melancholic: Maite
122	** Choleric: Julio
123	** Phlegmatic: Alicia
124	* FrameUp: There's too many! [[spoiler:Alicia]] is framed for trying to kill Diego in the second-to-last episode, [[spoiler: Sofía]] is framed for being the Gold Knife Killer, [[spoiler: Julio]] is framed by his ex for killing a random woman, and [[spoiler: Andrés]] is framed for the murder of [[spoiler: Belén - by Belén!]]
125	* GiveTheBabyAFather: Andrés offers to marry Belén, because he is the biological father of Juanito, [[spoiler:except he really is not the father. Coincidently, Juan (his "father") married Ángela for the exact same reason, since Andrés was the result of Ángela's affair with Don Carlos.]]
126	* GorgeousPeriodDress: Although dresses cover everything save for the hands and the head (as expected of deeply Catholic turn-of-the-century Spain), they are still quite gorgeous.
127	* GrandeDame: Lady is the classic cliché.
128	* GreatDetective: Detective Ayala, and his former "superior", the CluelessDetective Hernando. Between him and the need for hard evidence, sadly, the pair sometimes gives the impression that the PoliceAreUseless when it comes to ferreting out the true villains.
129	* GuiltInducedNightmare: [[spoiler:Sofía has guilt dreams of dripping blood]] following her second kill.
130	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Alicia, who remains one of the few characters that stay true to her own original convictions and is not corrupted by ambition or power, as the rest of her family.
131	%%* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Julio and Alicia. Andrés and Maite. Javier and Laura. Presumably also Alfredo and Sofía, by the end.]]
132	%%* HelloAttorney: Maite.
133	* HeroicBSOD: Julio gets one of these after [[spoiler: Alicia is kidnapped.]]
134	** and another one when [[spoiler: Andrés]] is about to be executed.
135	* HeterosexualLifePartners:
136	** Detective Ayala and Hernando, his assistant. Even though Hernando is implied to be married, he is almost never seen without Ayala.
137	** Julio and Andrés, since Julio arrived at the hotel. They consider each other as their respective ''best friends''.
138	** Maite and Alicia. Maite has been friends with Alicia since they were younger, and she is also her confidant.
139	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Harry Houdini, Creator/AgathaChristie and King Alfonso XIII all pass through the hotel at times.
140	* HollywoodHealing: A couple of times, characters receive injuries that, in normal circumstances, would leave them bedridden for weeks, but they recover miraculously and are up and walking soon after. In one case, Julio is well enough to [[spoiler: ''have sex'' a mere day after being shot in the chest/shoulder]].
141	* HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler:Maite]] loves Julio. Considering he and Alicia are the OfficialCouple there's no hope for it to go anywhere.
142	* HotForPreacher: [[spoiler: Sofía]] has an affair with a priest.
143	* HospitalHottie: Laura, the pretty nurse Javier falls in love with.
144	%%* JusticeWillPrevail: [[spoiler:Samuel's vendetta.]]
145	%%* IdleRich: It's the best luxury hotel in Spain. Guess who stays there?
146	* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Diego threatens Alicia to kill her when he finds out that she is in love with someone else.]]
147	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Alicia, right down to her 99% pure-white wardrobe. It never even seems to occur to her to be even a little bit malicious.
148	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: This is how cholera seems to manifest itself [[spoiler: in Diego, although it isn't what ends up killing him.]]
149	* InterclassRomance: A classic example of this trope: Alicia is the upper-class daughter of the hotel owner and she's having a love affair with Julio, a poor waiter.
150	* IntoxicationEnsues: The soup of the day is made of drugs [[spoiler: that Javier was hiding in the kitchen. (ItMakesSenseInContext). Eventually, he stops the cooks to serve it to the hotel's guests... but [[EverybodyMustGetStoned the waiters still eat it]]]].
151	* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: [[spoiler: This is how Diego keeps Alicia from leaving the hotel -- threatening the maids and waiters she feel so much sympathy with.]]
152	** Javier forces Julio to fight in the tavern by firing two random members of the staff and threatening to do the same to Andrés (although it's likely he was just bluffing).
153	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sofía avoids the consequences of killing Cristina and Beatriz.]]
154	* KeepingSecretsSucks: Especially when you're keeping them from a suspicious spouse or an innocent poor friend like Andrés.
155	%%* KindlyHousekeeper: Only not so kindly most of the time.
156	* KissingUnderTheInfluence: [[spoiler:Andrés kisses Maite]] while they are both quite drunk.
157	* LadykillerInLove: Javier ends up like this a couple of times. [[spoiler:Particularly in the last episodes, when he realizes he loves his wife, even if she is mentally ill.]]
158	%%* LargeHam: Julio, from time to time. Diego, when he's being particularly evil.
159	* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler:Andrés and Maite]].
160	* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Sofía]] wants children but becomes infertile. Belén gets pregnant accidentally.
161	* LetOffByTheDetective: Ayala lets ''some'' things slide for the greater good...
162	%%* LightsOffSomebodyDies: Or, in this case, Lights Off [[spoiler: Something Gets Stolen.]]
163	* LocalHangout: If they're not at the hotel, they're probably at the tavern.
164	* LoveAtFirstSight: Julio [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove says he fell in love with Alicia upon seeing her on the train platform]] about 20 seconds into the first episode.
165	%%* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Eugenia, Isabel, and Laura (though in the latter's case, it's more an instance of "love making [[spoiler: her preexisting condition act up]]".)
166	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Diego is already evil, but love certainly makes him obsessed.
167	* LuckBasedSearchTechnique: After trying and failing to locate it, Julio and Alicia discover the secret room by accident while [[spoiler: making out in the closet of Room 28.]]
168	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Don Carlos is Andrés's real and biological father, born from a secret love relationship he had with Ángela.]]
169	* MaliciousSlander: Anytime Teresa holds up a copy of "La Vanguardia" and insists they've got it wrong.
170	* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Alicia is brainwashed by her captors in the earlier episodes of S3, to kill Diego. They program her to kill him at a certain time with a certain music, until Julio brings up to her senses.]]
171	* MaritalRapeLicense: Unfortunately, this is 1905-1907 and it's a heavily conservative Spanish culture at the time.
172	* MarryForLove: Alicia tries this argument to put off marrying Diego, though [[spoiler: it doesn't work.]]
173	* MasqueradeBall: The hotel hosts one in episode 3.01 "Baile de máscaras"
174	* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless: Julio, Alicia, Maite, and Andrés never actually end up personally taking revenge or enacting justice, on anyone.
175	* MeaningfulName / ShoutOut: Alicia is a blonde, independent woman more interested in having a career and learning new things than in getting married and being a ProperLady. Likely a reference to Alice from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' .
176	**Belén is the Spanish name for 'Bethlehem'.Guess whose pregnancy (and the resulting babies) will play a major role in the story?
177	* MiddleChildSyndrome: Javier, resident BlackSheep, since he never felt as privileged as Sofía or Alicia.
178	%%* TheMissusAndTheEx: Alicia and Cecilia.
179	* MoodSwinger: Laura suffers from [[spoiler:psychotic sprouts]], which is one of the reasons she is an OldMaid.
180	* MrFanservice: Julio Olmedo and his often-absent shirts.
181	* MurderTheHypotenuse
182	** [[spoiler: Beatriz is killed by Sofía after she threats her marriage with Alfredo.]]
183	** Diego wouldn't think twice in killing ''that'' person who Alicia would be loving instead of him.
184	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Teresa]] gets a hefty dose of this in the third season when faced with [[spoiler: the disintegration of her family.]]
185	%%* MysteryWriterDetective: Special guest-star, a thirsty teen Agatha Christie.
186	%%* NeverOneMurder
187	%%** MurderIsTheBestSolution: [[spoiler: Usually Teresa or Diego's solution of choice.]]
188	* NiceGuy: Andrés
189	* NiceToTheWaiter: Alicia is shown to be very nice to the hotel staff compared to the rest of her family.The fist thing she does after greeting her mother when she comes home in the first is going down to the kitchens to say hello, and she also mentions that she knows everyone who woks in Gran Hotel personally, except perhaps those who were hired recently. [[spoiler: Diego later uses this against her by [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure threatening to take it out on the staff]] if she tries to run away ]]
190	%%* NobilityMarriesMoney: Sofía and Alfredo.
191	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished:
192	** Andrés [[spoiler: marrying Belén to save her and her child from disgrace and poverty. Belén only wanted to tie knots with him because that would make her filthy rich, since she knew that he was an Alarcón. She even tried to frame him up for her "death", after they knew it was "over" when Juanito died.]]
193	** Alicia [[spoiler: marrying Diego to uphold family honor, even though she loved Julio. And ''that'' didn't end up that well after a TraumaCongaLine that would have been deadly for her.]]
194	* NoNameGiven: Ayala's first name is listed as Horacio by various sources, but Hernando is only ever known as exactly that. Lady's real name is Ludivina, but she too lacks a surname.
195	%%* OfCorsetsSexy: A couple of the female characters.
196	* OhCrap: Several, but most notably when [[spoiler: Alicia finds out she was tricked to wait for Diego in the hidden room...]]
197	%%* {{Ojou}}: Alicia.
198	* OnlyAFleshWound: Get stabbed! Phew! It missed all the vital organs! Then, the wound gets infected and feverish enough that you spend one night really delirious and spewing out all sorts of plot tease secrets and even the doctor is like "YOUR LIFE IS IN GOD'S HANDS NOW" and then within 24 hours you're [[UnexplainedRecovery up and about]], with a walking-stick just in case but you don't really need it.
199	* OpenHeartDentistry: Ayala has performed autopsies on corpses so that totally qualifies him to remove shrapnel from [[spoiler:Julio's]] gut, right?
200	%%* ParasolOfPrettiness
201	%%* ParentalIssues: The Alarcóns are cursed.
202	%%** EvilMatriarch
203	%%** SinsOfOurFathers
204	* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:Andrés kisses Maite while they are drunk, and they eventually get married]].
205	%%* PerfectPoison: Smear a little in the coffee-pot, and you're good to go!
206	%%* PleaseWakeUp: Inverted: [[spoiler:Belén to Juanito]].
207	* PosthumousCharacter: A few of these, notably Don Carlos and [[spoiler: Diego's first wife, Marta Santos]].
208	* PregnancyFaint: Happens to [[spoiler:Alicia]] in the final episode.
209	* ProperLady: Alicia. She was more spirited in the first series, then less so as time goes on. [[spoiler: Diego beats the spirit out of her.]]
210	* RapeDiscretionShot: They cut to the closed door of one of the hotel's rooms, and a maid passes by, hears what's going on, and quickly leaves.
211	%%* ReallyGetsAround: Javier.
212	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Detective Ayala, even though he is a bit of a ByTheBookCop, he is perfectly willing to ignore certain things in the interest of upholding justice.
213	* {{Revenge}}: One of the many plots that drive the series. [[spoiler:Particularly Arriaga's revenge against Diego because he killed Marta Santos, Diego's first wife and Arriaga's lover]].
214	%%* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler: Javier. Cristina and Andrés' fake-deaths were planned, so they don't count as this.]]
215	* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Samuel Arriaga prefers to sacrifice the life of many (especially Julio or Alicia) who didn't do anything to him, just to perform his vendetta on Diego. Teresa and Clara (Samuel's sister) think that he is going too far when Diego was already captured.]]
216	%%* RevengeByProxy: Poor Alicia.
217	%%* RichBitch: Beatriz.
218	* RunawayFiance: [[spoiler: Averted when Alicia decides to go through with the wedding and stays married for over a year.]]
219	* RunningGag:
220	** Julio encountering Lady and trying to either avoid her or make excuses about what he is doing (a result of him meeting her first while trying to [[MockMillionaire pass himself off as a hotel guest]], and not wanting to reveal he is a servant).[[HilariousInHindsight It becomes even funnier]] when it turns out [[spoiler:[[EverybodyKnewAlready she knew it all along]] but let it slide because he was handsome and Alicia's friend.He couldn't fool young [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Agatha Christie]] either.]]
221	** Guys getting slapped by their mothers.
222	* SayMyName:
223	** "ALICIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" In slow motion, no less.
224	** Alicia screams Julio's name a total of ''nineteen times'' in the scene where he [[spoiler: gets shot by Diego.]]
225	%%* ScreamingWoman: Sofía, after she [[spoiler: wakes up in the morgue and has a breakdown.]]
226	%%* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Teresa, Javier, most people in the show.
227	%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Alicia, Julio, Andrés.
228	%%* SecretOtherFamily
229	* SeeYouInHell: [[spoiler: Jesus & Diego are weirdly bound together by the depth of antagonism between them in their twelve-year tango of death.]] This is quoted exactly in the beach scene when [[spoiler:Jesús shoots Diego]].
230	%%* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Don Benjamin.]] Seems to be a mixture of subtypes 1 and 2.
231	* SexyPriest: Padre Graú, the priest who [[spoiler:Sofía sleeps with, happens to be a [[TheCasanova casanova]] who has tricked other ladies under his charm]].
232	* ShipperOnDeck: There's a few people who want to see Julio and Alicia together, other than Andrés (who is more than glad with the idea of them being happy) -- just ask detective Ayala, or even Agatha Christie.
233	* ShirtlessScene: Julio frequently gets his shirt off.
234	* ShoutOut: In one episode, the daughter of Lady's English friends comes to the hotel, and helps the policemen to investigate a robbery. In the end, she reveals that she [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis is planning to write novels]] about a clever detective and his hapless assistant. It turns out the young woman is Creator/AgathaChristie, and Ayala and Hernando are the inspiration for [[Literature/HerculePoirot Poirot and Hastings]]. It also implies that Lady is the model for Literature/MissMarple.
235	* SickbedSlaying: Averted, but barely. And it drives Andrés deep into paranoia for the rest of the series.
236	%%* SleepingWithTheBoss: [[spoiler: Alicia and Julio, finally. Ángela and Don Carlos, for at least a decade. Jesus and Teresa. Diego and Belén. Diego and Cristina. Diego and God only knows who else.]]
237	%%* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Namely, Maite.
238	%%* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler: Diego.]]
239	* SpurnedIntoSuicide: Javier's fiancee Eugenia, in the first season, after she [[spoiler: finds out he slept with his sister]].
240	* StarCrossedLovers: Julio and Alicia suffer a ''lot'' through the whole drama just because they want to be together. It's a rocky road until they [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn their happy ending]].
241	* TalkingInYourSleep: Diego's feverish hallucinations of Don Carlos.
242	* TheAlcoholic: Javier goes through some spells of this when he is depressed and when he isn't. Alfredo and Diego also have their incidents.
243	* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler: Moments after Sofía stabbed Beatriz out of jealousy]], she suffers a fatal realization.
244	* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: [[spoiler: Belen's sons]] are this, clearly older than any newborn.
245	* TraumaCongaLine: Alicia gets [[spoiler: raped, survives an explosion, and is subsequently kidnapped, all in a single evening.]]
246	* VirginInAWhiteDress: You rarely see Alicia wearing anything non-white after she marries Diego. She had a few (though not many) colorful daytime outfits in the first series, which all but disappear, aside from mourning suits and ball gowns, in the following episodes. The more her life comes off the rails, the more she seems to commit to wearing little other than white, to the extent that [[spoiler: Samuel is able to frame her for attempted murder by simply putting his also-blonde (and otherwise not much of a lookalike) sister in one of Alicia's white dresses.]]
247	* VitriolicBestBuds: Andrés is by far the only best friend Julio had in his entire life, and so is Julio to Andrés. That much, that they both treat and also fight each other as if they were ''brothers''.
248	* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Understandably, [[spoiler:Sofía]] is freaked out when she wakes up in a room full of dead bodies after the [[spoiler:explosion at the Gran Hotel.]]
249	* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: After [[spoiler:Julio]] is shot the doctor insists on taking the bullet out despite it being near a major artery. As a consequence, he [[NightmareFuel bleeds into his lungs.]].
250	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Arriaga blows up the hotel as a mere opening act, causing several bystanders to be killed or horribly injured, and considers Alicia only as a means to bring pain to Diego, without caring what would happen to her.]]
251	%%* WhamEpisode: La última noche.
252	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The ending scene is a silent movie style look at a future where [[spoiler: Julio and Alicia have a son, Maite and Andrés have got married, and Teresa has regained control of the hotel.]]
253	%%* WhoMurderedTheAsshole
254	* WomanScorned: Eugenia. A ClingyJealousGirl who murders people!
255	%%* WorstAid
256	* {{Yandere}}: Eugenia. After she catches Javier sleeping with her sister, Eugenia [[DestinationDefenestration throws her out a window]] and later threatens Javier, saying that she'll tell the police [[PapaWolf (and her father)]] that he did it unless he agrees to marry her, a literal example of IfICantHaveYou. She is eventually SpurnedIntoSuicide after her threat falls apart.
257	* YankTheDogsChain: Are things going well for the good characters? Enjoy it. It's not going to last.
258	* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler: Alicia disowns her more murderous family members with ease and regularity.]]
259	%%* YouSeeImDying [[spoiler: Diego, but by then, no one cares.]]
260	* YouWouldntShootMe: Yes. Yes they would. Except in [[spoiler: don Jesus' case--he'll just knock you out instead.]]

Context Series / GranHotel