barcelona-hotels-writer1 ♦ May 24, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
When you arrive to a new city, you never know how to organize efficiently tour time to see everything and not to get too tired. The worst that can happen o you is being so overwhelmed by the daily sightseeing plan that in the end of a day you only dream about having a rest. The optimal plan is to enjoy Barcelona day and night!
You should prepare yourself to that by buying a travel guide in advance. You find a lot of routes that you can follow. You can also ask your friends who already have been in Barcelona, what is really necessary to see and what turned to be a waste of time. You should also check the opening hours, in order to avoid getting somewhere only to learn that it is closed on a specific day of the week or from this to that hour. First hand advice is of course the best, but you can double check it going to the sites of the places which you want to see. Some places have different opening hours for example in and out of season.
When you already have some knowledge of what you are willing to see, you can start organizing your sightseeing trips. Some hotels in Barcelona organize routes for tourists to the most famous places. You can do it on your own as well. Going around Barcelona by public transportation system is really easy. The metro lines are well connected with each other and allow you to change wherever you want. The same happens with buses and night buses. You can get everywhere you want by public transport. However, if you like combing sightseeing with sport, you can always rent a bike or a segway. When you are not sure how to arrange your tour around Barcelona, you can always ask a receptionist at your hotel in Barcelona. I am sure that you are going to get the best first hand update on what to do and what to avoid in the city and especially how to get around in the easiest way..
barcelona-hotels-writer ♦ May 23, 2013 ♦ 2 Comments
If you decide you need a break and want to make a travel to Barcelona, you want to go on vacation a few days, but the time is too short to go to a travel agency, the fastest way to find your accommodation in Barcelona is booking website accessing online booking sites.
If, however, you want to search a hotel in Barcelona sites for booking, choose the ones established in both specialist and the online accommodation bookings, as, for example, www.Hotelenia.com
When choosing a hotel in Barcelona, one of the most important steps is to consult assessments of tourists. In this category you can find the feedbacks given by the tourists who stayed at the hotel accommodated and which leaves its impressions or complaints. Moreover, they give grades based on criteria set by the site, such as room quality, noise in the room, cleanliness, friendliness and competence of staff and quality of breakfast. Such a classification exists on www.Hotelenia.com site.
Online reservation sites for Barcelona Hotels, benefit discounts, just for the reason that hotels bring in more clients and you will see it displays the first page that “prices are cheaper than doing it.” Everything is possible, but better check with a simple phone call to the hotel in question. Contact details at the bottom you find the presentation of the hotel. You need to know that as the duration of stay is longer, prices are falling.
Some booking sites are in search features, besides the destination, departure date, arrival date and category as well: hotel search near an exact address (or knowledge can have friends in that city and want to stay close to them) Search hotel near train stations, airports, museums, tourist areas etc..
barcelona-hotels-writer1 ♦ May 23, 2013 ♦ 2 Comments
This note was created for people who like adventures, who like visiting new places, and all this for little money. I will try to show you the most effective and economical way to come to Barcelona and see what travel agencies offer you. Paying attention to my observations, you can plan on your own your vacation, spending only half the amount which a travel agency would charge you.
When you plan your journey to Barcelona you look for the easiest way to do it. The best would be a package of a flight, a hotel and a sightseeing route. There are millions of offers that you can find. But is always the easiest way the best one? If you have a limited budget, you can do everything on your own and save some money which you would spend on agency´s fee. Moreover, building your own holiday gives you so much independence in choosing whatever you like that for sure you would love it. It’s not all! Thanks to this time you’re spending your own schedule your time, what you want to visit and no one will tell you that they do not have time for you to take a photo with a beautiful fountain, or with a marvelous view of the sea. So why should you listen to anybody why on your holiday, it is better to invest some time in advance looking for a flight, accommodation and visiting tours than wasting your precious holiday time doing the things that you honestly do now want to do.
barcelona-hotels-writer3 ♦ May 22, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Ciutadella Park Apartments is a great location for your accommodation in Barcelona next to the Ciutadell Park which hosts within its 70 acres (280,000 m2) the city’s substantial zoo, the Parliament of Catalonia, a lake, some museums, and a fountain of considerable size designed by Gaudí. It is characterized by being a very busy place, crowded with tourists, and locals, who are usually going for a walk or taking their children to the special section for kids found near the upper margin of the park. This park is optimal for sports, like for example boating in the lake, cycling (both boat and bicycle can be hired), or jogging.
Barcelona Zoo is one of the oldest zoos in Spain. Located in a Ciutadella Park in the heart of Barcelona. The Barcelona Zoo was opened in 1892, when banker Lluís Martí Codolar offered his collection of animals for the city. Currently, one of the best gardens in Spain. The Zoo allowing visitors almost touch the animals. The exhibition is here from the coast of mammals such as gorillas, orang-utan of Borneo, chimpanzee, African elephant, lion, leopard, tiger, leopard, bison, dolphin, panda, and many others. In addition, there are mammals and birds (pelicans, parrots, penguins …), amphibians (frogs) and reptiles (turtles giant Anaconda …)
There are several thematic pavilions, where the animal form conditions for them are as natural as possible. Visitors can go to the pavilion, dolphins, reptiles, gorillas, birds, primates, probably lizards,
Dolphinarium is the most popular place in the zoo. Viewers can see here the amazing acrobatics of mammals, and with luck, to become direct participants in the show.
In gorilla´s pavilion visitors can see white gorilla Snowflake which became a symbol of Barcelona and the Barcelona Zoo.
Zoo opening hours
Throughout the year, both the ticket offices and the Zoo facilities open at 10.00 am.
Closing times Ticket office Grounds
1 January to 27 March 5.00 pm 5.30 pm
28 March to 15 May 6.00 pm 7.00 pm
16 May to 15 September 7.00 pm 8.00 pm
16 September to 30 October 6.00 pm 7.00 pm
31 October to 31 December 5.00 pm 5.30 pm
25 December Open until midday
General rates
Adults 16.50 €
Children from 3 to 12 years old 9.90€
Seniors 65 and above 8.60 €
Pink Card holders with reduced rate 4.00 €
Red Card holders – free entry
Disabled people 5.00 €
barcelona-hotels-writer ♦ May 22, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Tourism in Barcelona is considered a “Dream industry´, providing customers with complex products characterized by tangible and intangible components, capable of satisfying the most varied and original motivations identified or generated by application developers.
Tourism is not a fad; it is a bio-psycho-social and spiritual necessity.
Tourism, Hotels in Barcelona has a profound effect on improving health, increasing vitality and life expectancy. It is a European politics and the world one of the key elements of the III Revolution “Wellbeing Revolution” called to produce real improvement of quality of life. Human settlement on a new level of understanding will lead to the release of human potential physically, soul and spirit that will lead to an unprecedented improvement in quality of life of people, animals and planets, the wealth that will flow on all other areas of activity.
Tourism is travel: treatment, rehabilitation, recovery, rejuvenation, pleasure, recreation, leisure education, culture, knowledge, change, evolution, sports, and feeding business. In Barcelona you can find Hotels which offer you all of these.
Tourism in Barcelona is one of the few phenomena that have been imposed in the contemporary era, its spectacular development being a characteristic feature and XXI.
Hotels in Barcelona: www.Hotelenia.com
barcelona-hotels-writer ♦ May 21, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
For years, I am organizing my holidays with all eyes on the Internet. If you choose an European city, as I chose Barcelona, first review the low-cost company offers and then look for cheaper hotels or hostels on the sites where you wish to travel. Choosing the accommodation is combined with the consultation with a map of the city in order to be closer to the center or a subway station.
After resolving these issues, the proper preparation of the holiday comes. You need to consult the pages of the city, public forums to get to know the opinions directly from tourists who already visited the place and tips on what should be avoided, what should be a must to see and technical details on where to eat cheap. Finally, I have consulted several web sites, but I put my eyes on: www.boutique-bedandbreakfast.com
Choose a hotel in Barcelona!
The same as for low-cost airlines: start looking for your accommodation in Barcelona in advance to get cheap tickets. If you want a specific holiday camp, where you can choose a hostel accommodation, it is usually room for more than four people. But you can stay in the hostels´ rooms prepared for two people. The bathroom can be shared with other guests, but do not think about the miserable conditions, because now they correspond to other, higher standards.
For choosing your accommodation in Barcelona, I recommend you to have a look here:
www.Hotelenia.com, where you can find a lots of Hotels, Hostels, self catering apartments for groups and families.
barcelona-hotels-writer1 ♦ May 21, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
There are several proven solutions. First, you should consult the Internet. There are so many web pages where you can search for the accommodation e.g. www.hotelenia.com After selecting the hotel or hostel you are interested in, its web page gives you opportunity to see the reviews of the place on numerous forums. The comments are posted by the people who actually spend some time in those places, so you can be confident that they are balanced and supported by their own experiences in Barcelona.
Normally, when you go for a holiday you select a hotel as a place of your accommodation. A hotel seems as the easiest and the most comfortable way to spend your nights in Barcelona. Currently, the prices of the nights at the hotels have much more affordable rates than they used to have before. The reason for that may be that there are many different categories of hotels. They differ mainly in what they offer. The affluent tourists typically choose five-star hotels. They are the most luxurious and have great attractions for their guests. Of course there are also cheaper hotels for not-that-much-demanding customers. One of such places is Boutique Bed&Breakfast located on 145 Pau Claris Street. You can have a look at their web page and find all the information you need about the place and how to make a reservation (www.boutique-bedandbreakfast.com).
Booking made in advance allows you to peacefully prepare yourself for departure. To be sure that you will have a place to stay in Barcelona you can make prepayment. We then ensure ourselves that the place is 100% safe and that no one will take our place. So what are you waiting for, start planning your journey to Barcelona.
barcelona-hotels-writer3 ♦ May 21, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Barcelona Card
If you’ve got already booked hotel in Barcelona or any accommodation in Barcelona now is a time to get your Barcelona Card which will make your trip more comfortable and cheaper.
It’s a discount card, which offers free transportation and discounts for many attractions in Barcelona.
Unlimited Public Transport
Card gives you unlimited travel on the public transport system, including the subway system, buses around the city center, trams and trains from downtown to the airport of Barcelona. If you decide to travel from the airport Aerobus, you will receive 20% discount off the regular ticket price.
Discounts on entry to many museums and art galleries.
Barcelona Card gives good discounts on admission to many popular museums and art galleries, for example, receive 50% discount to the Picasso Museum, and 20% from the price at the Museum Miro and many others.
Save on buying an original souvenir from Barcelona
If you buy original souvenirs in the gift shop at the tourist office on Plaça Catalunya, get 12% discount with the Barcelona Card.
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Special Discounts for Restaurants
10% discount on a specific restaurant in Barcelona, which will be listed when you purchase the card.
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Savings on musical events
You get 20% savings in the Palau de la Musica (beautiful place of classical music) and the Gran Teatre del Liceu (opera, theater and musicals place).
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Tourist guide and map of Barcelona for free
As well you will receive a basic Barcelona street map of the city, subway map and a simple but comprehensive guide to the main attractions along with details about where you can get a discount.
Where can I buy a card?
You can buy online or at the tourist office in central Barcelona.
Prices depend on the number of days for sightseeing. The cheapest two-day pass costs 27 EUR / adult and 23 € / children. A 5-day costs from 44 euros.
barcelona-hotels-writer ♦ May 20, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
If you’re shopping addicted or you know someone around you who cannot refrain from buying anything, just relax, you could try a therapy that would help to look at shopping as a necessity only.
Many people come to Barcelona for the famous shops, malls ….
Shopping addiction is similar to that of gambling and occurs when a person is depressed or stressed out, psychologists say. The money you waste on clothes and useless things could actually help you to buy or invest in vacations, gifts or other needs.
My advice is to spend the money in a better Hotel when you come to Barcelona, restaurants and
only gifts, do not buy unnecessary things, which maybe you will never use.
Certainly many of the acquisitions made in extreme passion and will not find place in your house and then the storage space will become a problem.
The first step to get rid of shopping addiction is to admit it.
You should go shopping without cards and no money. When you go shopping it may be wise to take someone with you for conversation and you can convince you that something is not right.
Do not forget the shopping list and walk as much to appease your appetite for acquisitions by the mere fact that you look.
May you should avoid ordering anything you see on tele-shopping channels or the internet. Think: I should check to be sure of quality.
You can call a counseling center or even a psychologist to recommend you to do things that you’d like and that you manage to fill your time.
When you decide to come to Barcelona, forget about the addictive shopping, just enjoy
the Hotel you stay, the restaurants you eat in, the streets you walk and the people you meet.
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