Mikhail Koltsov,[1] Geoffrey Cox,[1] Henry Buckley,[2] Ksawery Pruszyński, Wiadomosci Literackie and Herbert L. Matthews[3] were among the members of this community, which also met in the nearby headquarters of Telefónica and the Hotel Gran Vía.

[7] The last such war correspondent staying in Hotel Florida was O. D. Gallagher, sent by the London Daily Express, said to be the only foreigner who waited to see Franco's troops enter Madrid.

The hotel was also a favourite haunt for Frank Tinker and other U.S. mercenary fighter pilots enlisted with the loyalist forces during the civil war, who relished the opportunity to stop by for a hot bath whenever they could make it to Madrid.

[8] In 2006, the Instituto Cervantes y la Fundación Pablo Iglesias opened an exhibition in New York called the "War Correspondents in Spain", covering the work and adventures of many of the people of the Florida.

The reception and main hall of the Hotel Florida were reproduced in the old train station in Oakland, California, for the filming of the HBO production Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012).