Ciudad Condal Hostal - Paseo de Gracia

The only good thing I can say about this place is that the location is excellent. It is not at all as it appears on the website. Our first room, a "triple," was like a cell with a window on a small air shaft with no natural light entering the room. The bathroom was in terrible shape. There were no amenities. Not a box of tissues or a cup, just shampoo and cheap tiny soaps. The towels were air dried and felt like sandpaper, and one was stolen from the Renfe train system. They did move us after two nights to a "superior" room which had a window out to the street and a nicer bathroom, which was somewhat better, but still nowhere near worth the money. If this had been like $100/night at most for the location, that would be okay, but it was over $250/night. Insane!

Ate in the restaurant twice during a visit to Barcelona and on both times service was superb and the food was delicious, once after a trip to camp nou we were looking for somewhere to eat at about 2230 at night no problem, great tapas, superb wine Rioja what else and wonderful service, second time we went with friends same experience, nothing too much trouble for them, tapas were great. Muchas gracias amigos.