Amy Adejokun
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At the gates of the prestigious Passeig Gracia, the Avenida Palace is a chic and elegant hotel that recreates the atmosphere of the 1950s, an ideal place to rest in a relaxing environment. Its restaurant, piano bar and beauty salon will make your stay a memorable one. Just the right address for couples in the heart of Barcelona.
Avenida Palace - © EASYVOYAGE
Avenida Palace - © EASYVOYAGE
On the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes avenue a stone throw away from the famous and prestigious Passeig de Gracia, close to the Passeig de Gracia subway station. The Barcelona airport is situated 9 miles away, a 25 minute drive to the hotel.
The 151 rooms of the Avenida Palace are spread out in a splending 9-storey building served by an elevator and a majestic staircase dating back to the 1949 before the building became a hotel. A true palace as its name suggests: everything is chic, dignified and elegant, with the refined decoration of the 1950s with hanging lights, pillars, gilding and statues. Special mention should be made of the magnificient lounge and chimney whose hearth is topped by a bust and large flat screen. This very cosy place equally serves as a library. A lovely place to recline and relax. Open throughout the year, the hotel has a full accommodation capacity of 320 clients. Open in 1952 and renovated in 2006, the Avenida Palace is a member of the Spanish Husa group of hotels that equally owns the Oriente at Barcelona.
Fitted with a carpeted floor, the Avenida Palace rooms are decorated with elegance (busts, vases, statues) and properly equipped with flat screen satellite TV (23 channels), two separate beds, a parlour with centre table, two armchairs and an office desk, a free electronically-coded safe, a paid mini-bar, discreet individual airconditioning and international phone line with paid Wifi Internet access (8 pounds per hour and 13 pounds for 24 hours). The windows are fitted with double glazing and the walls adorned with lovely paintings. The well-decorated and immaculate bathroom comprises a bathtub fitted with a handset and flexible shower, double wash-hand basins, magnifying mirror, hair dryer, telephone, handkerchiefs, dressing robes, bedroom slippers and elaborate hospitality products. Small, original and pleasant are the warm red lights for your comfort!!! The junior suite bathrooms are equipped with toilets separated by a sliding door and a bidet.
Set in an elegant space adorned with lovely paintings, the Insolit BCN restaurant, with a capacity of 150 persons, offers a buffet breakfast from 7:00 to 11:00 AM and à la carte Mediterranean and Catalan specialties for lunch from 1:30 to 3:30 PM and dinner between 8:30 and 10:30 PM. At midday, you can choose between the 11 pound express menu (free buffet with cold and hot starters, a drink and desserts) and the brewery menu at 15 pounds (with an additional hot meal à la carte). The buffet is varied and excellent. Dinner can be enjoyed à la carte. You can sip countless cocktails at the Golden piano bar of the lobby decorated with carpets and elegant chairs from 7:00 AM to midnight. In the evenings a pianist treats you to good sound from 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM.
Ladies will be delighted to be pampered at the hair and beauty salon of the Avenida Palace.
beauty salon, massage, sauna, keep fit, wellness, Turkish bath, spa
gym, sports
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