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
May 26
People, including some friends of mine, acquaintances and on-line pen pals, often ask me how to visit Barcelona on the cheap. They frequently ask questions like where to find cheap Barcelona hotels or budget accommodation in Barcelona, how to get about Barcelona if they are on a tight budget, where to eat on the cheap, which places of interest can be visited free of charge and so on. I am very glad that people ask such questions, because that makes me believe that I am on the right way providing people with useful information about the city I love. So, I am going to share my own experience and information from my local friends which often help me when I start feeling like a fish out of water (that often happened during my first visits of Barcelona). I decided to cover some of those frequently asked questions and hope that the information will help you to save your money but still enjoy one of the most beautiful cities in Spain.Let me start with the following topic: how to plan your meals, where to eat and what to order if you are traveling on a tight budget in Barcelona.
There are very many places to eat in Barcelona like in any big European city, but tourists consider that Barcelona’s Catalan restaurants can be very expensive. I would advise to buy a budget guidebook, which usually contain extensive lists of affordable restaurants and cafes in Barcelona. You can also view appropriate sites in the Internet while you are at home and print some useful pages in order to take them with you rather than carrying heavy guidebooks.
To be continued later on…
Tags: Barcelona, Cheap Barcelona Hotels, Restaurants