bed and breakfast in Barcelona?

Question

My hubby and I are going to Barcelona in May/June and want to stay in the city centre. I've looked at hotels and they are a bit pricy. Do they have B&Bs or an equivalent? We only really want somewhere to sleep.
thanks

Answer 1

hotels in barcelona go from the expensive to cheap and nasty, with not much in between. A legacy of the olympics I was told, with the athletes' dorms now rented out as youth hostels

Try a double room with ensuite in a 'hostel', not a youth hostel but catalan for b&b / basic accomodation. Good ones are around the Placa Cataluna / Las Ramblas areas, central and easy to get the metro to the Gaudi / Olympic areas. Hotel Banys Oriental looks nice.

Avoid the Chinatown area near the port, they rent rooms by the hour there.

Rooms in good 'hostels' get booked quickly, I ended up biting the bullet and paying for a 4* hotel.

Answer 2

Cool day trips from BCN

1)Montserrat – church way up on a cliff. Take the cable car.
2)Girona – beautiful smaller town. Roman ruins, two big churches,
Jewish quarter, banys arabs, you have to go the tapa bar (Tapa’T)
3)Figueres – Dali museum
4)Terragona – very cool Roman ruins (gladiator stuff

In BCN
Olympic Park
La Rambla
Sagrada Familia
Picasso Museum


Discos
Otto Zutts – crazy as hell on the weekends

Universal – crazy as hell on the weekends

Mas y Mas – small but very cool (across the street from Universal)
not really a disco. More of a smaller bar that pump the disco tunes
and people dance in the back.

La Paloma – near the top of La Rambla – crazy on Thursday night (I am
sure it is crazy on the weekends too) this place is huge. One big
*** room with a 2nd floor balcony that wraps around the entire big
room. Very high ceilings.

Bikini – two large rooms that have a retractable wall in the middle.
One side plays disco tunes and other plays more local dance tunes.


Bars
Margarita Blue – drinks and/or dinner

L’Ovella Negra – many young tourists. I met people from all over at
this joint. We went there almost every night and got drunk before we
hit the dance floor. Carrer de les Sitges, No. 5

London Bar, Molly’s and Philarities – cool Irish bars a block of La
Rambla – Placa Reial

Rita Blue – great dinner place

You must eat dinner one night at Los Caracoles, Carrer Escudillers,
No. 14

Les quinze nits restaurant – Placa Reial (very nice and had an
english menu!)

Answer 3

Most visitors stay in or near the Ramblas or in the Gothic Quarter just to the east. This is a good base from where you can explore the city's sights by day including Gaudi's masterpiece, the unfinished Sagrada Família Cathedral, and Parc Güell in the north. See http://www.spain4uk.co.uk/places/barcelona.htm for more details

Answer 4

Go to this web site and from there click on the Bookhostels link, they specialize in hostels, as opposed to hotels, most of which are a lot cheaper and also tend to be in more interesting or out of the way locations:-

http://www.costadelsol-vacationrentals.com/hotels-on-the-costa-del-sol.html

Answer 5

go to hotelclub.co.uk
you can book cheap rooms thru them
central the oasis hotel in plaza del palau is good... its cheap, clean gives breakfast and is a 10 minute walk from las ramblas and nx to the marina! its good for budget i stayed there in november else do check that website!!

Answer 6

try loggin on to lastminute.com and make sure you get a hotel near the las rambla...i was there its a beautiful city ..you will have a fantastic time.

Answer 7

If you find a good one can you let me know, I'm going in february to met my daughter from a school trip and take her home (to benidorm) for a few days.