This is a very nice hotel! The staff are very friendly and helpful. The breakfast was really nice and you could ask for cooked option alongside the other breakfast buffet. The rooms are small but we found them fine for us with a nice bathroom and powerful shower! The much needed air con worked really well in the rooms and when you walked into the hotel lobby the air con was lovely!!
The food in the restaurant and room service was really good and good size portions.
The area was quiet but had really helpful shop across the road and supermarkets not far away. The nearest metro, El Puxet was a few mins walk and very easy to get to Placa Catalunya (5th stop) which is the central point and where Las Ramblas begins. After walking Las Ramblas several times, we decided to get the metro to the end to save our legs. Change at Catalunya and head for Drassanes (2 stops) which is at the end of Las Ramblas where the beautiful harbour is. The metro's T10 ticket was really good. There were 4 of us so we bought a couple of the tickets at a time as you can share them. We did get lost a couple of times and made an exit where we shouldn't have, so our ticket got stamped, however it is still a really good value ticket to get and can be used on buses and other modes of transport.
Other places we went to...Park Guell, 20-30 mins walk from hotel and very beautiful. The Aquarium was really lovely and I had printed off some vouchers before we left which gave us 2 euros off each per person (Price for 4 persons, 72 euros with discount).The beach was lovely, crowded, but the walk to it was really beautiful. We did go to the Sagrada Familia but the queue was 4-5 hours so just took pictures outside it. If you want to go from the hotel by Metro, go to Provenca (4th stop), change line and its 2 stops to Sagrada Familia. My husband and Son went to Noucamp which they really enjoyed. It was 23 euros each to get in.
The Maremagnum shopping mall over the bridge at the harbour was great and there is a 'all you can eat' buffet which was great for my hungry teens! It is called Freshco and it is 12.95 euros each and drinks included! Another tip is if you go to the Dept store El Cortes Ingles in Place Catalunya and go to the 9th floor where the restaurant is, you get fantastic views where you can take pictures!! This was a really great holiday and this hotel was a really great place to stay and we will definitely go back there because of the location and the staff who were all lovely and helpful!!!
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