Michael & Cindy

Michael & Cindy

September 19, 2025 • Barcelona, Spain
146 Days To Go!
Michael & Cindy

Michael & Cindy

September 19, 2025 • Barcelona, Spain
146 Days To Go!

Travel: Accomodations/Airlines/City transportation

Plum Guide Barcelona Apartments

These are luxury type apartments available for short term rentals in the center of Barcelona. Most are in wonderful locations in secured buildings.

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VRBO Barcelona

VRBO is similar to Airbnb

Areas/neighborhoods we suggest:

1. Eixample

2 Dreta de l Eixample

3 .Il Borne

4. Gracia

5. Gothic Quarter (Barri Gotic) Gothic Quarter is in the Ciutat Vella area on the map) Neighborhoods.


The Barcelona EDITION

Av. de Francesc Cambó, 14, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
936 26 33 30

Part of the Marriott hotel group. excellent location and property.

Preferred Hotel Group

This is a lovely hotel chain and has several great hotels within Barcelona.

We suggest to stay within the city center locations.

Their H10 chain is very nice and included in the website.

Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 670, L'Eixample, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
934 50 50 45

Excellent location, Marriott Autograph collection hotel

The One Barcelona

Carrer de Provença, 277, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
932 14 20 70

Excellent location and we really like the Prefer hotel collection.

H10 Art Gallery

Carrer d'Enric Granados, 62-64, L'Eixample, 08008 Barcelona, Spain
932 14 20 30

Located in the Eixample neighborhood close to everything. Great location. H10 is part of the Preferred hotel collection.

Monument Hotel

Pg. de Gràcia, 75, L'Eixample, 08008 Barcelona, Spain
935 48 20 00

Love the location and great hotel

Kimpton Vividora Barcelona

Carrer del Duc, 15, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
936 42 54 00

Located in the heart of the Gothic Quarter part of the IHG hotels. We have stayed here, beautiful hotel.

Borneta

Passeig de Picasso, 26, 30, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
935 47 86 00

Beautiful boutique hotel in the Borne district with rooftop bar/view. Excellent restaurant Volta. Part of the MIROHOTEL group

W Barcelona

Plaça Rosa Del Vents 1, Final, Pg. de Joan de Borbó, Ciutat Vella, 08039 Barcelona, Spain
932 95 28 00

Waterfront hotel in Barceloneta. A little farther from the city center but beautiful and beachfront.

Sofitel Barcelona Skipper

Av. del Litoral, 10, Ciutat Vella, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
932 21 65 65

Part of All-accor hotels. Beautiful hotel located near Barceloneta beach near the Gothic Quarter

Derby hotel collection

Boutique hotel collection in Spain and other European cities. There are several in Barcelona in great neighborhood locations near city center.

Delta Airlines Center

6000 S Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30320, USA

One of our top choices from the west coast with great connections to Barcelona.

Delta is part of Sky Team alliance including Air France, KLM & Air Europa.

They fly from Seattle-Tacoma(SEA) -Amsterdam(AMS) non-stop with direct service from Amsterdam (AMS) -Barcelona(BCN)

They also fly non-stop SEA-Paris charles de gaulle(CDG) with direct service from Paris (CDG)-Barcelona(BCN)

The travel times are very efficient with these routing systems They also have many connections from Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) thru east coast cities mainly New York City(JFK) with direct service to Barcelona (BCN).

FYI-allow at least 1.5 hours for connection times in Amsterdam & Paris if possible. Especially Paris as the airport is very large making tight connections under 1 hour difficult.

Aer Lingus

17801 International Blvd, Seattle, WA 98158, USA
(800) 474-7424

Great connections to Barcelona from Seattle-Tacoma(SEA), San Francisco(SFO) & Los Angeles(LAX)from the west coast.

With routing thru Dublin (DUB) then with service on to Barcelona(BCN) making it a very efficient travel day. Also upon returning you will clear US customs in Dublin, a huge bonus for quick travel & connections.

British Airways

17801 International Blvd, Seattle, WA 98158, USA
(800) 247-9297

Traveling on British you can book thru your One World partners (Alaska & American) with good connections thru London Heathrow (LHR) to Barcelona(BCN) Prices will be a bit more due to the high landing fees at London Heathrow airport(LHR).

Allow at least 2 hours for connections times.

Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España

C. de Martínez Villergas, 49, Cdad. Lineal, 28027 Madrid, Spain

Iberia is a One World partner. It is the official Airline of Spain. They have many flights from the United States to Barcelona. You can fly nonstop/direct from San Francisco (SFO)-Barcelona(BCN) as well as Los Angeles(LAX)-Barcelona(BCN). These connections are seasonal with service May-September.

Level

08820 El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
913 21 10 00

Level airlines is a lower cost airline owned by the Iberia/British Airways holding companies. They service primarily San Francisco (SFO )-Barcelona (BCN) and Los Angeles(LAX)-Barcelona (BCN) all non-stop. Making it about an 10.5 to 11 hour flight but no stops.

Usually service runs every other day SFO-BCN one day and the next LAX-BCN.

Air Canada

Air Canada is well connected to Europe thru its Canadian cities of Toronto (YYZ) and Montreal (YUL)with service then non-stop to Barcelona (BCN).

American Airlines

17801 International Blvd, Seattle, WA 98158, USA
(800) 433-7300

American airlines has good connections from New York (JFK)& Dallas (DFW) and Charlotte (CLT) for the best connections. Also they are partners with British Airways so Seattle-Tacoma (SEA)-London Heathrow(LHR) is a good option. They are also partned with Iberia Airlines (Airline of Spain and One World partner)so the connections from London (LHR) to Barcelona are plentiful between British and Iberia.

Lufthansa Airlines

Lufthansa the official airline of Germany has daily non-stop flights from Seattle-Tacoma (SEA)>Frankfurt (FRA) with connections to Barcelona.

Keep in mind that Frankfurt is a very very large airport making tight connection times very difficult. So we suggest to allow 2 or more hours of connections time if you choose this routing. They are part of the Star Alliance airline alliance group.

Booking.com USA

28 Liberty St 29th floor, New York, NY 10005, USA
070 770 3884

Booking.com is a great website for accommodations, airline travel & car rentals.

Google flights

Google travel will show you all options for travel to Barcelona from your chosen departure city.


Turkish Airlines

2121 Rosecrans Ave Suite 2360, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA

Turkish airlines has a flight daily nonstop Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) - Instanbul (IST) and then direct flights to Barcelona (BCN) from there. Keep in mind it is about a 4 hours flight from IST-BCN but they offer fairly good ates for flights.

Be Mate Passeig de Gràcia - Apartments

Pg. de Gràcia, 115, Gràcia, 08008 Barcelona, Spain
935 22 28 40

These are apartment style rooms in a secured building located on Passeig de Gracia which is a wonderful location to the center, shopping etc.. and transportation to other areas via the Barcelona Metro

Cabify

C. de Pradillo, 42, Chamartín, 28002 Madrid, Spain

We recommend you add the Cabify app to your phone as it is an efficient quick travel option similar to taxi/Uber in the city.

Uber Greenlight Barcelona

Av. de Josep Tarradellas, 38, L'Eixample, 08029 Barcelona, Spain
603 81 91 20

Uber is in full operation in Barcelona via their app

Free Now Madrid

C. de Orense, 68, 10ª Planta, Derecha, Tetuán, 28020 Madrid, Spain

Free Now is a app to provide transportation in the city similar to a Taxi/Uber/Cabify