What a phenomonal holiday. I cannot WAIT to go back!!!!
The hotel was brilliant, not very busy when we were there mostly business people stopping for overnight stays so the poolside was not at all busy for the most part.
Only 4 sunloungers but it has grass so when we couldn't get a sun lounger we just put our towels on the ground and sunbathed.
BEAUTIFUL LOCATION!!!!!!very affluent area, the room we stayed in over looked 2 huge big villas which had gardeners and maids everyday.
the view from our room was just priceless i could have laid in bed all day and just watched the view. Our room looked out onto the big hills where the telecomunication tower is and also there is a big cathedral and some sort of theme park on the hills too because at night around 9 o'clock the cathedral lights up and the big wheel's lights go on,so amazing to just lay in bed while trying to get over to sleep and just watch all the pretty lights.
The corridors in the hotel were very fancy, the doors are kind of hidden in the walls and you get a card which you need to put into the door then you hear a click and it pushes inwards into the room.
The room itself was very modern and fancy. to operate the lights you have to put your room card into the wall of the door then the air conditioning and lights will be able to work. the air conditioning was quite tricky to work but you can adjust the temprature of it which is good.
The blinds at the windows were so cool!the buttons to operate the blinds are by you bedside( and also there are buttons at ur bedside to put all the lights off in the room so you don't need to get up to put off lights you've forgotten about!). there are two blinds- one that has holes in it so that when u have it down people outside can't see in but you can see out then the second blind that is a blackout. you can press a button that puts both down at the same time to save you time at night having to put both down seperately.
There is a roof terrace on top of the hotel (although me and my boyfriend who i went with weren't sure if the terrace was private for the one room that has a hot tub in the hotel but whenever we went up no one batted an eye lid). it had the most amazng views you can see for miles and miles i recomend you go up there if ur staying at the hotel!you can even see the sea if you stand at a certain bit!.
the room service was very good as well, no troubles ordering it or recieving it and the ingredients were always extremely fresh and tasted really good and healthy. breakfast was EXTREMELY expensive though i wouldn't reccomend it unless you don't have any other choice. there is a supermarket in sarria where we got cans of juice to take back to save us having to buy them from the minibar
The Metro station is barely 5 minutes away from the hotel and then is only about 7 minutes if that away from the centre of barcelona and the trains are very very frequent and are never late or delayed. the station is extremely hot though but when you get onto the metro it is air conditioned. we mostly went into the centre of barcelona for meals but there is a pizza hut about 10 mins away from the hotel room and they have no problem with u bringing food back to the hotel or even ordering something for you to be delivered from the hotel.
it has a laptop in the foyer that you can use whever you like and it has a really good fast internet connection. all the rooms come with free wifi if im not mistaken but don't take my work on it.
safes inside the room are in the wardrobe and is very easy to use but if (like us) you aren't sure how to first work it then if you just call the reception desk they are very helpful. any problems and most of the staff speak good english. there was the odd member of staff who wasn't very helpful and couldn't speak english very well but they were usually always on with another member of staff who could speak english.
This was me and my boyfriend's ( we're both 18) first holiday away outside of the uk and we were so happy with it. not at all scary or over whelming. I would deffinitly recomend this hotel for anyone who was thinking of staying in barcelona. the area we stayed in was called Sarria. Hope this helps