Hotel Catalonia Barcelona Plaza - Barcelona

This is not one of your charming little places. Huge and impersonal this hotel does have easy access and enclosed parking for an extra 12 Euros a day. Because we were arriving at early morning hours we needed 24 hour desk staff and well lighted area which this hotel does provide. Comprehensive breakfast is served in a gigantic room.

We (wife, 13 yr old son and myself) stayed at the Catalonia Barcelona Plaza for four nights from Aug 22-26. We were very, very satisfied with our stay. The hotel was conveniently located (Plaza Espana) and on major metro and bus lines (also was first stop in and last stop out of Barcelona for convenient and swift airport bus). We are happy we did not stay on Rambla due to quiet and space here and short ride to there. We took a triple room due to having son with us...room was clean and good size - but none of the triples have views (unless the courtyard is you idea of a view). Staff was pleasant, helpful and knowledgable. We wanted wireless and a pool - and hotel had both. Former worked well and latter was a very nice addition...particularly due to very warm and humid weather we experienced. One caveat about pool - it is 2 meters deep at all points.....which can be a problem if one has smaller children. One thing that the hotel must work on is the beds....they are not very comfortable....But, overall would highly recommend hotel and return to it if I were to go to Barcelona again

The best days of this hotel are long gone! it is rated by many sites as 4 *, but it is definitely not. the roof top pool could not be used. it was not heated and the covering over part of it to make it an "indoor pool" had blown away. the area was generally in a poor state! wifi in the hotel was very expensive and it was also expensive to use the safe in the room with a rate per day. also, there was no free internet access even in the lobby - I had to use a credit card, and the euros accumulated really fast while using 1 of the 2 PCs available. really not 4*!! rooms were clean and nice, although beds were rock hard.

The parking at the hotes was expensive, 20E per day.

What I really disliked in this hotel is that I choose it because it was supposed to have a Sauna, but the Sauna was closed (due to work in progress). No sign was mentionning this at the reception, and the hotel staff were not willing to do anything more then saying they were sorry for what seemed to me like a major drawback. I filled out a claim form for the hotel director but didn't get any feedback yet. Otherwise the hotel is ok for a business trip if you need to stay in that area of Barcelona, but the surrounding are rather uninteresting and there are very few restaurants. However there is direct access to the subway.

Very efficient, clean and modern, good location for airport bus and metro and a surprisingly nice view. Open air pool on the roof a great bonus. Staff very friendly and helpful.

Excellent location. The metro is just outside the door of the hotel, with taxis always available, so everywhere is accessible. The website did lead me to believe that the hotel had two pools, an indoor and an outdoor; not true! they put a roof on the outdoor one. Also it's dangerous unless you're a strong swimmer. No safety rails or gradual slope, and no life guard on duty. otherwise though, a great place in terms of its ability to give you quality access to the rest of Barcelona.