Independent hotel with excellent customer service in an ideal location for the business school. Easy to get the bus into the city centre and 15 mins from airport. Good choice at breakfast including omelettes. Felt that the staff genuinely cared and were welcoming, professional and helpful. Room a good size with king bed and an excellent bathroom with a bath, shower and bidet. Great restaurants nearby.
This hotel expounds a real sense of professionalism, hospitality and service. In today’s world it is a traditional oasis of what hotels should be like. This will definitely be my second home when I visit Barcelona.
Julian Zarb
Tourism Researcher and Local Tourism Planning Consultant
Stayed here for 3 nights. The staff was really helpful.The room was very clean and comfortable. I liked the breakfast a lot. The area was a really nice one. Easy access to the hotel by bus. I would definitely stay here again.
I attended a professional education program at IESE University of Navarro recently and the SANSI Pedralbes was my home for 8 days. The Pedralbes neighborhood is quiet, affluent and very pleasant. The university was literally a 5 minute walk from the hotel. It is also within walking distance of the Sarria neighborhood with several tapas bars, restaurants and shopping for casual days or nights out. Placa Catalunya (downtown Barcelona) is less than 10 minutes by taxi, however - the Tourist Tour Bus makes a stop just 200m from the hotel for easy sightseeing and hop on/hop off service. I've read the negative comments about female staff uniforms - this is just silly. The entire staff was extremely professional, helpful, and very fluent in English. The ladie's uniforms are certainly sequined, but stylish and not inappropriate at all. I met the young family that owns and runs the hotel and I cannot speak highly enough about them and how they run their hotel. The rates were fair for the services and quality rendered. Truly a pleasant place to call while in Barcelona, I highly recommend it!
I would have rated this hotel higher but I found a few things absolutely unacceptable.
Any good points were immediately canceled out by the inappropriate female staff uniforms (see attached photo of the tight sequin mini dresses and high heels). Upon arrival/check in at 11am, I felt like I was walking into a casino, nightclub or someplace worse!
To make this hotel experience even more bizarre, the hotel rooms all had holy bibles prominently displayed in the rooms and religious artwork/verses on the walls. What an unholy contradiction! Please note the men were not forced to wear sequin minidresses/heels, just work appropriate jacket and slacks.
We were a large group for a work event so we discussed it at length over the week. The men recounted their initial shock/discomfort, especially when the female employee helped them into their room. Very awkward!
I’ve traveled all over the world for work/holidays and I’ve never seen this type of blatant sexist employee uniform.
In this day and age, it is simply unacceptable to force young women to wear this type of work attire to help guests with their luggage, show them to their rooms and attend to their basic duties.
To their credit and professionalism, despite the ridiculous and embarrassing (& probably uncomfortable) uniforms, the female employees were beyond helpful, sweet and hardworking. Bravos to these ladies!
Despite the exceptional staff, I will never recommend this hotel to anyone - to do so would endorse this type of blatant sexist & discriminatory work environment.
