docjames
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Property: Novotel Barcelona City (adjacent to Glories)
Status: ALL Silver
Room Rate: ALL App (EUR 291-326/nt)
Room booked: Family room, saver rate, bed and breakfast
Room upgraded/type: Fractionally larger room with view
Early check in/late out: Not needed.
Welcome drink: Yes (4)
Welcome gift: no
When: July 2024 (4 night stay)
Had booked a different (IHG) hotel but when close to the date realised I’d booked the wrong one with no pool so this was literally booked two days prior to arrival in the middle of summer season. Surprisingly, this rate was better than the previous hotel chosen!
In the end, this was a great change. Rooftop pool and bar was an oasis and super relaxing, across from shopping mall (Westfield Glories) and Place de la Glories market, a pedestrian Rambla (del Poblenau) with restaurants (filled with lots of locals….) all the way to Bogatell beach, and we walked all over the city from here. Room Euro-small for 4 but did the trick and as usual we spent most of the time out of the room exploring the city or at the rooftop pool (kids) and bar (parents).
Staff were pleasant and helpful, lobby a bit dull (putting the euros or Wimbledon on the TV there would have made a significant difference). Large restaurant and breakfast selection was quite good but got very very busy and needed some refilling a little more (and selection really not as good as Ibis CDG….). Unsurprisingly noticed also lots of foreign aircrews staying there too. Lower ground function rooms (modest size) didn’t seemingly see much activity whilst we were there but possibly not a peak time for that.
It’s probably a little out of the way if you want to be closer to Latin quarter or Placa de Catalunya bu Barcelona is so easy to get around it really didn’t matter and iirc was preferable not to be continually in a Uber-touristy part of town (but still tourist-friendly).
Status: ALL Silver
Room Rate: ALL App (EUR 291-326/nt)
Room booked: Family room, saver rate, bed and breakfast
Room upgraded/type: Fractionally larger room with view
Early check in/late out: Not needed.
Welcome drink: Yes (4)
Welcome gift: no
When: July 2024 (4 night stay)
Had booked a different (IHG) hotel but when close to the date realised I’d booked the wrong one with no pool so this was literally booked two days prior to arrival in the middle of summer season. Surprisingly, this rate was better than the previous hotel chosen!
In the end, this was a great change. Rooftop pool and bar was an oasis and super relaxing, across from shopping mall (Westfield Glories) and Place de la Glories market, a pedestrian Rambla (del Poblenau) with restaurants (filled with lots of locals….) all the way to Bogatell beach, and we walked all over the city from here. Room Euro-small for 4 but did the trick and as usual we spent most of the time out of the room exploring the city or at the rooftop pool (kids) and bar (parents).
Staff were pleasant and helpful, lobby a bit dull (putting the euros or Wimbledon on the TV there would have made a significant difference). Large restaurant and breakfast selection was quite good but got very very busy and needed some refilling a little more (and selection really not as good as Ibis CDG….). Unsurprisingly noticed also lots of foreign aircrews staying there too. Lower ground function rooms (modest size) didn’t seemingly see much activity whilst we were there but possibly not a peak time for that.
It’s probably a little out of the way if you want to be closer to Latin quarter or Placa de Catalunya bu Barcelona is so easy to get around it really didn’t matter and iirc was preferable not to be continually in a Uber-touristy part of town (but still tourist-friendly).