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Which is the most convenient area to stay in Barcelona, as a tourism?
Anybody know a good, reasonably priced, hotel in this city?
How many airports are there? Are they close to the city?
As for airports, there is one of them (at least only one large one, IATA code is BCN) it isn't that close to the city. How far I don't know, but it's not IN the city - rather it's a typical big-city airport on the outskirts (just like LHR or JFK or whatever).
What I can tell you about the airport is that it was terrible from my point of view... We had the great privelige of having our airplane parket at a remote stand, which means a shuttle bus from terminal to airplane... I mean A shuttle bus as in ONE bus, carrying maybe 20 people back and forth until the entire 400-passenger airplane was filled. And this was very common, I'd say AT LEAST half the airplanes were parked at remote stands... Very few actually came up to the terminal... Either the airport is very overcrowded or was designed in the 1970s when such things were in vogue. Montreal-Mirabel and Washington-Dulles are good examples of airports designed to this archaic plan, which looked lovely in terms of making the building beautiful, until they actually decided to use it.
Enough about the airport... But unfortunately that's where most of my time in Barcelona was spent... And so inveitably when you mention Barcelona, you will get me talking about that airport... When things make that bad an impression on you, they tend to stick.
The bus ride TO the airport was quite literally at the crack of dawn, so I think it is excusable that I wasn't on very high alert at the moment ! And I had no contact with hotels there, though I remember seeing a very large and expensive-looking hotel near the port whose name I cannot think of. At any rate it looked like the sort of place that does not fit into the "reasonably priced" category.
I stayed in the Oriente which is an old hotel whose grandeur has faded over the years. Otherwise I am sure there are plenty of hotels on the web you can book. Just beware that if you stay on the Ramblas it can be noisy at night because of the long hours that the Spanish keep.
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