If this is your first visit to Barcelona and want to walk to most sites, including great restaurants, this is your place. The staff were very helpful and responsive. There also was a fun roof top area to view City lights, and in our case a beautiful lightning storm in the distance. Despite the central location, our room was very quiet. The rooms were modestly accessorized where an expected couch was really a day bed. Maid service was great. If you like to hang out in the hotel lobby area to read a book and people watch, this is not your place. There apparently is some type of happy hour program that created a loud and obnoxious vibe in the late afternoon/early evening. Breakfast, while next door in the sister hotel, was fantastic and the staff were warm, funny and inviting. The price was very reasonable.