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Barcelona Hotel Reviews

Barcelona's hotels offer clear distinctions. Hotels in the Ciutat Vella (Old City)—the Gothic Quarter and along the Rambla—are charming and convenient for sightseeing, though sometimes short on peace and quiet. Relative newcomers such as the Neri, the Duquesa de Cardona, the Banys Orientals, and the Casa Camper Barcelona are contemporary design standouts inhabiting medieval architecture, a combination at which Barcelona architects and decorators are peerless. Eixample hotels (including most of the city's best) are late-19th- or early-20th-century town houses restored and converted into exciting modern environments.

Downtown hotels, including the Hotel Palace (former Ritz), the Claris, the Majestic, the Condes de Barcelona, and the Hotel Omm, best combine style and luxury with a sense of place, and the peripheral palaces (the Hotel Arts and the Rey Juan Carlos I) are less about Barcelona and more about generic comfort and luxury. Sarrià and Sant Gervasi upper-city hotels get you up out of the urban crush, and Olympic Port and Diagonal Mar hotels are in high-rise towers (requiring transport to and from the real Barcelona). Smaller budget hotels are less than half as expensive as some of the luxury addresses and more a part of city life.

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