This was my fourth trip to Barcelona so I knew I wanted to stay in this vicinity as it’s familiar. The hotel overall is great value for money - my room was enormous, the rooftop lounge pool nice, a good brekkie, and again, central location. The key negative was arriving as a solo female late at night wasn’t ideal. Again, I know the area, it’s the gothic quarter so it’s ‘gritty’ and diverse people around. Any other time at night I didn’t feel unsafe walking about at 11pm. But after my flight was delayed and I got a taxi rather than the planned bus as I was arriving around 3am, it was not great to be about on your own with all your luggage. The taxi can’t drive down this lane, so drops you close, only about a 500m walk. It’s just not a great walk at that time of night as a woman alone, not helped by the hotel name being obscured and missable. That said, every other night I felt safe walking about, no problem. Yes the bathrooms are dated but that’s clearly seen in the booking photos. The ground floor did smell of damp quite a lot but when I was in my room, I didn’t notice it. The front desk team were helpful, although not so much the bar.
Again, I did not pay for an expensive perfect hotel. I paid for a well priced, very well located one and this is definitely that. I would stay here again, it offers a lot for a good price. They also have other hotels close to this one, such as the Angel location, which would probably be better to arrive late at night for solo females.