barcelona apt
Dec 28th, 2008 | 11:37 PM
#3
Joined: Jul 2006
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We just returned (yesterday) from spending the week of Christmas in Barcelona.
We stayed in an apartment in El Born for the week (myself, my husband and our two twenty-something children). We absolutely loved the area. We could walk to everything- the Barcelona cathedral, the Boqueria, Las Ramblas, the Picasso Museum, Santa Maria del Mar, Placa Catalunya, Casa Batlo, La Perdrera, the beach and Barceloneta, etc. etc. We even walked to La Sagrada Familia, although that might be longer than some people want to hike.
The apt. was in a lovely old building (thoroughly modernized inside) on the mainly pedestrian street of Argenteria (right down the street from Santa Maria del Mar). We found the apartment on oh-barcelona.com. Although the main website for these apartments is bcngotic.com. They were listed on another website or two also. (Often the same apartments will be listed on different websites, sometimes at different prices. Once you have narrowed your apt. choices down, it pays to google the apartment name or street, etc. to see if a given apt. shows up on different rental sites and then compare prices.)
I have never been to Barcelona before, so don't know what the area would be like in the summer when there are more tourists, but for our stay there last week El Born was ideal. Lively but not crazy and close to everything, lovely old medieval streets, highly recommended small restaurants and tapas bars in the neighborhood, and, as described above, close to just about everything.
If you have any questions about the apartments themselves, let me know.
We stayed in an apartment in El Born for the week (myself, my husband and our two twenty-something children). We absolutely loved the area. We could walk to everything- the Barcelona cathedral, the Boqueria, Las Ramblas, the Picasso Museum, Santa Maria del Mar, Placa Catalunya, Casa Batlo, La Perdrera, the beach and Barceloneta, etc. etc. We even walked to La Sagrada Familia, although that might be longer than some people want to hike.
The apt. was in a lovely old building (thoroughly modernized inside) on the mainly pedestrian street of Argenteria (right down the street from Santa Maria del Mar). We found the apartment on oh-barcelona.com. Although the main website for these apartments is bcngotic.com. They were listed on another website or two also. (Often the same apartments will be listed on different websites, sometimes at different prices. Once you have narrowed your apt. choices down, it pays to google the apartment name or street, etc. to see if a given apt. shows up on different rental sites and then compare prices.)
I have never been to Barcelona before, so don't know what the area would be like in the summer when there are more tourists, but for our stay there last week El Born was ideal. Lively but not crazy and close to everything, lovely old medieval streets, highly recommended small restaurants and tapas bars in the neighborhood, and, as described above, close to just about everything.
If you have any questions about the apartments themselves, let me know.
Dec 30th, 2008 | 01:04 PM
#5
Joined: Aug 2007
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Barcelona is easy to walk around. El Born is a popular location . We rented from
http://www.habitatapartments.com
and were very happy ( this Oct).
http://www.habitatapartments.com
and were very happy ( this Oct).
