Use also the
hotels.com search box below where you can find many cheap hotels in Spain
offering good value for money.
Accommodation Barcelona
Accommodation in Barcelona has become one of the most wanted and therefore most expensive
in Spain within the past 10 years. Apartments rental in Barcelona for instance has become
a growing business and high standard hotels have updated their prices to the rest of Europe.
Finding a cheap vacancy or even any availability at all has become very difficult around Easter,
summer and during all the festivals and trade fairs. You are advised to book several weeks in
advance at peak times especially when you have a particular hotel in mind. More about accommodation in Barcelona at
Accommodation in Barcelona.com.
Hotels and Pensions
The Spanish government regulates hotels and pensions in a stricter way than probably
any other Mediterranean country in Europe. The official categories of these hotels and
pensions are rated and star-rated in a very straight forward manner. However room rates
vary wildly. Ironically these star-ratings do not always give the traveler an immediate
indication of costs, facilities, hotel services and location. With budget hotels reservations
you should ask beforehand
for an ensuite bathroom in the particular room you are booking for.
Room Rates
After making sure the accommodation has its own private bathroom the budget hotel
might not be so notoriously cheap as once discovered. A cheap hotel in Barcelona
sharing an outside shower for a cost of around 30 Euro might then go quickly up to
40 and 50 Euro when a hotel room with ensuite shower or bathroom is on your vacation wish list.
If you then think of spending your holidays in Barcelona during the summer when it gets really hot
and assume your cheap hotel accommodation to include air conditioning, TV, elevator or simply a calm
and quiet accommodation to relax,
you will have to add a fair amount on top of your "cheap hotel" budget - up to 60 and 90 Euro
per night.