Hotel Barcelona Plaza

... who promised to take them to the info desk. Hopefully he did or now she is driving a new Avis rental. We got our hotel in Barcelona around 3:30. The metro station is right in front of the hotel, awesome! The city was just electric on Saturday. We went ...

... quietly say "hallelujah!"  Thank goodness for Elsie or we'd still be standing in that Barcelona shoe store! By 2:30pm, we were at our hotel picking up our luggage and catching a cab to the cruise terminal at Port of ...

... nights sleep felt like a million bucks!  Or in Europe, a half million Euro's!   Upon leaving our hotel for another Barcelona excursion, we went in search for a cup of coffee.  With no Starbucks in sight or any Tim Hortons, ...

... ; De volta à Praça de Catalunya, já no meio da tarde decidimos almoçar no Hard Rock, localizado ao lado do hotel. Helena comprou o cartão VIP e mais uma camisa para sua coleção.  Com isto passamos na frente de 1001 pessoas que esperavam para ...

I arrive to Barcelona on the 1st of August and immediately found a Hotel to stay at.  For the first 3 days, I spent them in the Expo Hotel while I looked for a place to live.  It was quite easy to find a room to rent in the city.  I ...

... of pickpockets, city in Europe) to take the taxi. Which drops us off, 25E later, at the foot of Regencia Colon hotel in the downtown Barcelona. We check in, change out of shorts and t-shirt and into jeans and long-sleeved shirts, and go out in search ...

... . Finished these off and after much hugging and kissing said our goodbyes - truly an extraordinary weekend in beautiful Barcelona. Bought a red and a whiskey at the hotel bar (a very tiny affair) and took these back to my room. The wine is extremely cheap ...

... our hotel and changed into our swimsuits and headed down to the beach at the Olympic Village.  Barcelona has a pretty good Metro system, and our hotel was only 3 stops away from the beach.  The weather in Barcelona was ...

... up safe and sound at Hotel 1898 right in the heart of Barcelona on La Rambla (the main avenue - the Bourbon Street of Barcelona). Our hotel was AMAZING. It was so incredibly beautiful and had a rooftop terrace with swimming pool and bar overlooking all of ...

... enjoying the view a bit, it got hazy, so I immediately went back to sleep. I woke up again when we landed in Barcelona. I have to admit, I was feeling a bit burnt out on architectual photos, so as I began to see beautiful buildings, I was starting to ...

... on your plate. I was hungry - had 5 cleaned off toothpicks on my plate to Gary's 2. - Navigating Barcelona after dark by Metro to reach the Plaza Espanya. Once there we were mesmerized by the Font Magica (Magic Fountain). We walked up the boulevard from ...

... I took it that they were not fond of Madrid. I continued on and by late afternoon I found myself in Segovia, Checked into a hotel in the Plaza, since it was early afternoon I decided to walk around and take in the scenery. The Plaza was filling up with ...

We landed at 9 am at Barcelona International Airport. Immigration was so quick, it was almost too good to be true - about 10 seconds per person compared to about 5 minutes in US. Soon we were out in Barcelona Sun, a much appreciated change from the ...

... . Park Guell is further up the hill and another of Gaudi's designs. The views over Barcelona are fab (just mind the smog!!). I finished the day with another paella in a plaza in the Gothic Quarter... all good so far in Barcelona. More tomorrow.... ...

Eine Stadt, ein Lied... Möchte man die Mittelmeermetropole Barcelona mit einem Lied in Verbindung bringen, so teilen sich die Menschen in zwei Gruppen: die meisten denken wohl an das unsägliche Duett von Freddie Mercury und Montserat Caballé. ...

... and an hour of aimless rambling we finally found our hotel.  I didn't remember the hotel website saying the hotel was right on the plaza for the Cathedral...that would have been handy to know.... Hotel was great; after some days in dodgy lodgings ...

... after work.  There is a very prominent monument to Christopher Columbus.  That is directly across from the Port of Barcelona building.  While I was there, I saw a ferry coming in from the Balearic islands.  I enjoyed watching the ...

Barcelona is a very tourist friendly place. Barcelona is cosmopolitan, it is historic, it is cultural, it is diverse and oozes lots and lots of chic. I was amazed with how Barca had both old and new, city and beach, culture and youth in one little ...

... the sun would shed its light; instead making me wait in momentary darkness. I felt you were closed entirely to me, Barcelona. Even your shops and markets had no warm welcomes for me this morning....signs seemed to scream in resolved solidarity: ...