The BCN Urbaness Hotels Gran Rosellon is centrally located in Barcelona, surrounded by a lot of nice and tasty restaurants (distances by foot within a reach of max. 1.000 m). Close to the hotel (50 m) is a taxi station, 700 m away the start of a hopp on hopp off line.

The hotel staff are extremely friendly and welcoming. The rooms are really bright and clean and in no way claustrophobic, the bathroom and shower are also large fresh and clean.

The walls are thin! There is a music stack in the room and our neighbours decided it was a sensible thing to turn it up full on a Sunday at 23:35 To the hotels credit the lady at reception solved the issue within minutes.

Breakfast is excellent, with both hot and cold. The bacon eggs and veggies were worth a try every day. Its pastries are stunning always fresh. Coffee is a machine and could be better, if you’re English take strong brew tea bags as the tea is a bit weak.

You can rent electric scooters from the hotel at E29, these are fast and used by many in the city, but you are close enough for a good walk to all of the main attractions at an average 15,000 steps per day.

Don’t be afraid to use the local tapas bar out the hotel to the left on the corner of Roselló and Aribau, the food is well priced and stunning service. Sit inside as the sewage smell can be a bit breath taking on this corner, it won’t disappoint inside!

Evenings found us using Tapas more at car of Roselló and Balmas, but don’t walk past the Balthazar literally just across the road from the hotel, it is the best food we had in Barcelona all stay and cheaper than many of the smaller restaurants! Their food and Spanish red wine is stunning! Hjun (Junior) is a brilliant and helpful Maitre’D

Pool was closed during our stay, slightly disappointing

Clean, modern 3 star hotel at best. Would never had said 4 star. And the room never gets clean even if you are staying for a week. No clean towels/bed linen nothing. We requested an early check in, possibly 10am and the hotel emailed us back and said it would be no problem at all. When we got there it was a simple “NO”. Reception guy one in particular has a huge English language barrier he hadn’t a clue what we were talking about. So check in wasn’t so good. We checked in at 12.30 in the so that wasn’t so bad.

Breakfast staff are lovely. Welcoming. Breakfast was good, a few good choices. Chicken wings and Grilled peppers was odd. Bacon needed to be cooked more.

The walls are super thin, when someone bangs their door you can hear it all over the hotel. They really should have grips or stoppers in place for the door before closing to make sure the banging isn’t so loud.

Also there is no English stations on tv- not one. No Netflix either. Which was disappointing as I like to listen to tv while I sleep. There is a blue tooth speaker in the room, yes it’s great, but one night I woke at 3am to classical freaky Japanese music and kids laughing in the background 🎶 👀😂 so to wake up to that, you can imagine the horror. Literally. Clearly someone connected their blue tooth to another room (mine) and that can happen. I connected up to the speaker and I heard my music play next door. So this is the only bad thing about those speakers. We were never in the room but when we were these are all noticeable points. 💯