Aug 15
I haven’t written for a long time, but now I am back and I continue reviewing Barcelona accommodation options for people coming to the capital of Catalonia.
Five-star Barcelona hotels usually have more spacious apartments in comparison to mid-range Barcelona hotels. Rooms and public areas of luxurious hotels are stylishly decorated by famous designers; apartments are luxuriously furnished and equipped with the best modern facilities including safes. Barcelona Apartments here meet the highest international standards. There are en-suite bathrooms with baths and thermostatically controlled showers, bathrobes, toiletries and fresh towels. Guests can order room service with meals until 11 p.m.; turndown service is also available on request.
Top-end Barcelona hotels usually have indoor swimming pools and gyms with exercise facilities and professional staff. More and more five-star Barcelona hotels have their own spas. There are usually one or even more restaurants in such hotels. They offer menus with a diverse range of traditional and European dishes; wine lists are usually also impressive. Meals are cooked by famous chefs and presented to an excellent standard using high quality ingredients.
Barcelona hotels have their own unique styles and offer a wide range of services and comforts so that hotel guests could feel completely at home. All top-end hotels in Barcelona offer top-quality services and professional customer assistance, which meet European standards of quality.
I will continue reviewing Barcelona hotels and other types of budget Barcelona accommodations in my future posts. I am waiting for your opinions as well.
Bye!
Tags: Barcelona Accommodation, Five-star Barcelona Hotels, Top-end Hotels in Barcelona
Jul 08
I continue reviewing Barcelona accommodation options for people coming to the capital of Catalonia, which is the second largest city in Spain both in terms of size and population.
There are three different terms given to Barcelona accommodations - Hotel, Hostal, Hostel and Pension. One coming to Barcelona should realize that these are not the same as it may seem. A Hostal is something similar to a guest house or hotel, while a Hostel (with an “e”) is a youth hostel. The original term given to a youth hostel in Barcelona is Albergues Juveniles. Hostals are categorized by the tree star rating system. Pensions are usually cheaper and often family-run. They are usually rated one or two stars. Some hostals have shared bathroom facilities. However many hostals have rooms with an en-suite bathroom, so you will need to check with the hostal before you make your reservation. Barcelona hostels and pensions tend to cater for the budget traveler.
A five-star rating system is used to classify hotels in Barcelona. Only the super deluxe Barcelona hotels obtain five stars. Five-star Barcelona hotels are luxurious accommodations with a wide range of extra facilities added to the basic ones. The hotel staff of top-end Barcelona hotels provide multilingual service, so don’t afraid of misunderstanding. The personnel of such hotels are always nice, attentive, helpful, efficient and unobtrusive. Secretarial service is usually available on request. Services provided by luxurious hotels are well supervised and flawless in attention to guests’ needs.
To be continued later on…
Tags: Barcelona Accommodations, Five-star Barcelona Hotels, Hostal, Hotel
Jan 25
What would Spain be without sea and beautiful coasts?
The northern coast of Costa Bravo is a zone of vast beaches with famous tourism centers. Certainly, what a man does not like the sea, especially with beaches covered with golden sand? And diving, such a poplar sport, which gives one a unique opportunity to have a look at what’s happening inside the sea, various fishes and other marine wonders.
As for hotels, they are in abundance in the southern coast of Barcelona. It is splendid that hotels of Costa Dorado function on the “all inclusive” basis.
What can I advice you? Of course, a hotel with a marine name Grand Marina of 5 stars in the Barcelona’s port with essential sea-side or Old Town views. The lazy can spend their time near the swimming-pool on the roof of the hotel, and the view is so wonderful that you can not tear your glance away.
But my favorite feature of this Barcelona Hotel is the collection of works by modern Spanish artists, especially in the vanguard style. Barcelona Grand Marina Hotel is also located in such manner that you easily get to the Gothic district of Barcelona and famous pedestrian street of Barcelona - Rambla, not to mention Barcelona’s sights.
I will probably not surprise anyone with the fact that Costa Bravo attracts so many tourists by its beauty and mild climate, and such a strange mix of beaches and precipices. But the real name of Costa Bravo – “the wild coast” - can be understood only after a walk decently far away from the stylish Barcelona hotels.
By the way, you will find even special programs for families with children in the hotels, especially children like hotels near the sea because of aqua parks, mini-zoo Aqualeon, Marineland with dolphins. And they even carry out real knighttournaments sometimes. As you understand, Costa Bravo is full of entertainments not only for kids but also for grown-ups.
Tags: 5-star hotels, Barcelona's hotels, hotels, hotels near the sea