Hotel Vilamarí

I am giving it a 3 star becoz the hotel is clean, modern and staff were very helpful. But the problem is rooms are small and there is no space to open our big checkin luggage suitcases. Not only that, they don’t have exhaust fans in the bathrooms and hence it’s steams up so bad while showering that you literally have to open your hotel room door to let the steam escape.

The rooms are pretty small. We just came off a cruise ship in Barcelona and the room was smaller than our cruise cabin. Our room faced the west and it got scorching hot in the afternoon. We turned the A/C nob the the max and there was no cooling. We phoned the reception to ask and the answer was that the central air conditioning was not turned on and they asked us to open the window. This reminded me of my younger days of staying at 10 dollar hostels backpacking in Asia. But the 250 Euro per night price tag pulled me back to reality. At least they provided a 5 Euro plastic fan. But it was pretty noisy with the window open and I couldn't sleep at all. Also we couldn't close the curtains since they will block the window and stopped the airflow. So by 4am as the sun rose nobody could sleep anymore. The hotel staff also seemed very annoyed with our questions as if we should have expected no A/C. They said it's government policy to have no A/C but I have never heard of such policy. There were only one bath towel in the room so we had to call for another. The gym was very small. The only saving grace was the breakfast was plentiful. But for 18 Euros it should be. So it's nothing to write home about. We later changed to another hotel near Sants (I won't disclose here) of a large international brand. It cost 60 Euro less and had A/C, balcony, full gym, pool, welcome drink of a cocktail, and enough towels. Apparently the "government policy" only governs Hotel Vilamari.

shower was slippery, it needs to have some security handles.

Overall, the hotel is fine but just far from the landmarks which we wanted to go.

Breakfast nit great