PRICE:
Frommer's Highly Recommended

Located on a busy plaza overlooking a shopping mall converted from the former Arenas bullring, this large hotel caters mainly to business travelers attending the various conference and conventions held across the street. It's very convenient to the airport (about 20 min. by cab), and can host meetings of up to 700 people. That aside, it is a fairly standard business hotel: big, gleaming, and comfortable with all the necessary facilities, including in-house travel agency and bank. The rooms are blandly standardized and the lower ones get a certain amount of traffic noise, but they do provide a comfortable night's sleep, and all have en-suite bathrooms with tub/shower combos. The rooftop swimming pool (covered in winter) offers some unexpectedly fine panoramic views that take in Montjuïc and distant Tibidabo.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Barcelona, 3rd Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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