Avenida Palace

We had booked a "Standard Double" for about $155.00 a night but were given a mini suite with a separate living room, couch, and table for four. The room was great, hotel location perfect, and the staff could not have been more accomodating. Great trip!

We had booked a "standard double" for an average of $155.00 per night but were given a mini-suite with a small separate living room with couch, TV, dining table and four chairs in addition to a separate sizeable bedroom and entry foyer. The hotel staff could not have been more accomodating.

The hotel is old elegant beautiful! We stayed there for 3 nights before our cruise. We arrived early in the morning but were able to freshen up and store our bags while out seeing the sights. The hotel is nicely located for wonderful quaint eateries, city tours, shopping in both large and small shops. We highly recommend the Avenida Palace and have some great pictures from the hotel lobby.

My travel companion had a broken minibar for days and each time, she called down to report the problem, nothing was done until 5 days into our stay, they finally replaced the unit. Also, her TV coverage was a lot less than my room across the hall. Despite these problems, they tried to make amends by offering us breakfast coupons on our last morning there. Hotel is old but location cannot be beat. The heavy room key needs to be updated with magnetic key cards.

At 150+ euro this hotel is above average in appearance, but that is about it. Any hotel that charges 22 euro a day for wifi is behind the times.

Friendly, helpful staff, excellent dinner (at a very good price), central location and a huge bed !

Clean hotel and close to everything but that was its only good points. When we arrived we were put into a tiny twin room (after booking a double delux) with a view of other peoples rooms and asked to be moved, they wer not happy but put in in a double room after some asking, which had a view of a carpark lol! for a 4* i expected alot more, rooms were outdated, walls were paper thin (we heard our neighbours talking, running water, tv, door close) right up to 3/4am every night, our toilet seat was broke, door didnt lock and shower only half worked. Had already changed rooms and spent half a day trying to organise it and didnt want to waste anymore of our holiday trying to move again, Staff were unfriendly we felt. No tea making facilities which i know is common in spain etc but just to let you know :) Maybe better suited to elderly couples.

the location is awesome. the rooms are okay, good size, but old.beds are not too comfortable. morning staffs are great, but the evening staffs are not really respectful to their customers. several friends and i came back after a night out. and the guy at the front desks threatens to call the cops on us if they get any complain, but oh well. also the subway is under the hotel, so it gets annoying when the train pass by, as you can clearly hear them. other than that, this hotel is okay, and for the price, i would recommend it.

The hotel and staff were great. Would like to have been warned about the metro passing under the hotel though, but did get used to it. Could not have been in a better location for exploring Barcelona.

The hotel was a nice hotel for Europe. No wash clothes but also typical. No coffee or tea maker which is standard in most hotels and breadfast was expensive and the food was not good. The staff at front desk was the biggest problem. They do not like Americans and were very unfriendly and rude. We would not stay in this hotel again.