Just lately, it looks like everybody I do know is heading to Barcelona. After all, as a significant world metropolis, it’s hardly an under-the-radar vacation spot—however my suspicions had been confirmed by the truth that tourism was up 24% in 2023 over the earlier yr. It is sensible. With its fascinating historical past, plentiful museums, world-class purchasing, unimaginable meals—plus a rising pure wine scene—it’s simple to overlook that Barcelona can be proper by the seashore. It’s the proper place to go when you’ll be able to’t determine what sort of journey you fancy. The identical goes for its structure, which ranges from the Gothic to Artwork Nouveau to glossy modernism, right here, you’ll be able to have a little bit of all the things.
With regards to selecting the place to remain, you’ll must be a bit extra decisive. So right here, discover our decide of the perfect inns in Barcelona—from intimate boutiques, to up to date luxurious, to basic Catalan glamour.
Courtesy of El Palace Resort Barcelona
El Palace is the top of outdated Barcelona glamour. The 103-year-old lodge, previously the Ritz, is within the very heart of town within the historic Eixample district, making it a stone’s throw away from each main purchasing and vacationer vacation spot. With its vintage furnishings, hand-painted wallpaper, and opulent velvet seating, the lodge’s foyer is absolutely the peak of decadence—and that solely provides technique to rooms and suites all named after icons who’ve referred to as the lodge residence, like Josephine Baker, Salvador Dalí, and Ronnie Wooden of the Rolling Stones, who even designed the suite that bears his title.
The roof has an off-the-cuff restaurant, pool, and an al fresco cinema enjoying basic movies at night time for an ideal technique to finish your night, whereas downstairs you’ll discover Amar, a restaurant from the previous head chef at El Bulli, Rafael Zafra, serving fish dishes impressed by his love for the ocean. To additional channel the lodge’s old-world attraction, visitors can go to the Bluesman Cocktail Bar and luxuriate in a jazz efficiency and a cigar. But when the swinging jazz scene isn’t for you, ElL Palace can be an ideal place to loosen up: the rooms characteristic opulent marbled Roman baths, and if that’s not sufficient, the Mayan luxurious spa has a temazcal sauna which they are saying is a “pre-Hispanic spa, utilizing volcanic rocks and medicinal herbs to cleanse and restore your thoughts physique and soul.” —Zoe Dubno
Facilities: Eating places, cocktail bar, health heart, rooftop pool and cinema, spa
