Hotel Advance - Barcelona, Spain 

"Wonderful hotel, great service, great location"
Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009
Spent one night at this hotel prior to leaving on a cruise. Wonderful experience! Great modern decor. Wonderful attentive service. Extremely clean. Fantastic location (less than ten minute walk to Placa Catalunya and Las Ramblas). Lots of good, local restaurants within walking distance. Extremely reasonably priced. Service was top notch. Cristina at the front desk spoke perfect English and gave our group great tourist advice as well as a wonderful help in resolving a missing bag issue with Iberia Airlines. This hotel is only about a year old and is in wonderful condition. Warning to those who like soft mattreses - their mattresses are EXTREMELY firm. However, every hotel I've stayed at in BCN is this way. They serve breakfast, but it is expensive. The hotel staff recommended some of the neighborhood restaurants and bakeries. For some great home-cooked food, check out the "Forn de Pa" (Catalan for "The Bread Oven") across the street from the hotel (near the end of the block). Wonderful homestyle food (tortilla espanola, homemade quiche, pizza, croquettes, tuna empanada). I spoke to the owner who said her secret is "absolutely no processed food". Keep in mind that a lot of the smaller, mom & pop stores and restaurants in BCN still observe the siesta and close between 2pm and 5:30pm. Make sure to plan accordingly! As this hotel is fairly new and fairly small, be sure to have the address with you to give to the taxi driver at the airport. For two people and five suitcases, it was only about 25 euros to get to the hotel. For those leaving on a cruise, a taxi to the port only cost about 10 euros, bags included. I will definitely be back to this hotel for it's great service, great location and great price.

A++ Advance hotel
Posted: Thu, Jun 19 2008
This is an excellent hotel and is highly recommended. The staff were very helpful, particulalry one staff member who was there during the night shift. The hotel is very clean and of a very high standard. The decor is modern, new and maintained very well. The hotel also has a lovely fragrence in the lobby and rooms. The bathrooms are particularly sleek as are the alrge door numbers, meaning you cant miss your door number, when coming home late at night! The beds are very comforatble too. There could eb some additional english channels other than news and a little more selction in the mini bar, but these are very small factors and did not destry our stay at the hotel. The location is excellent with ony a 5-10 minute walk to La Ramblas and Playa de Catalunya. This is a great hotel, at a decent price. Enjoy!

Chic and Modern
Posted: Tue, May 06 2008
We had a friendly greeting as soon as we arrived. The staff were all very professional. The room decor was the same as the lobby, modern and clean. It was as if we were staying in a boutique hotel. The bathroom was very big and modern too. Our room was not facing the main street so we were not affected by any outside noise. The hotel was only a 5-10min walk from Las Ramblas and Placa Catalunya. We walked to almost all sites (except for Park Guell and Sagrada Famillia).