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The Gotico is a 4* establishment located in the gothic neighbourhood at the heart of Barcelona, near the Ramblas and the cathedral. It does not offer many amenities and it has no restaurant, but you can eat at low cost in the immediate surroundings. An ideal and cheap address to discover the city.
Gotico - © EASYVOYAGE
Gotico - © EASYVOYAGE
Like its name indicates, the hotel is situated in the gothic neighbourhood, between Saint Jaume square and Via Laietana, close to the cathedral and from Ramblas, in the heart of Barcelona, next to the Jaume I underground station. Barcelona airport is 9 miles away, which is a 25 minute ride to the hotel.
A member of the Spanish Gargallo hotelier group, the Gotico hotel has 81 rooms housed in a historic 5-storey building with a lovely façade, served by an elevator. Open all year round, the Gotico has a full accommodation capacity of 120 clients. Built in 1879 and renovated in 1999, the hotel offers limited amenities and does not offer a restaurant. However, it has a panoramic sundeck with 4 deckchairs, 3 sunshades, two round tables and 5 chairs offering a beautiful view of the gothic neighborhood, everything embellished by plants. It also offers a nice vaulted room on the first floor if you want to relax and watch TV or a video and there are game tables.
The floors are tiled and the rooms of the Gotico are nicely decorated and well equipped. They offer television with 9 channels, two separate beds, a sofa-bed, a desk, green papered walls embellished by a picture, a keyed safe (for 2 euros per day), individual air conditioning, a direct international phone line, a mini-bar refrigerator and a small balcony in some of them. The well decorated and clean bathrooms include a bubble bathtub equipped with a flexible shower, a double vanity unit (in some of the rooms), non-separate toilets, a bidet, a make-up mirror, a hair-dryer and welcome products.
There is no catering service at the Gotico hotel as in most Barcelona hotels, but there are many restaurants throughout the city. Breakfast is served on the first floor from 7.00am to 10.30am in a sumptuous vaulting room with original medieval walls, nicely decorated by pictures and statues of Egyptian divinities and framed papirus. The lobby bar serves various cocktails from 7.00am to 10.30am.
Located close to the well-known Ramblas avenue and the cathedral in the heart of the gothic neighborhood, the Gotico hotel offers a sumptuous vaulted room with authentic medieval walls, located on the first level. A nice place to relax, have breakfast, watch TV and play cards. You would think you are in a Cairo Museum because of the Egyptian decorations (papyrus, divinity statues). The hotel also offers a nice fitted-out panoramic sundeck. The lobby offers free Wifi Internet access. Breakfast can be taken in bed, on request. Animals are accepted with no additional payments.
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