Meson Castilla

Address:
Valldoncella Street 5

Barcelona
08001

Hotel Location: near center

It is on a small side street, just off the Plaza Catalunya and steps from Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas street. The Mood is set when you enter into the reception lounge, witch is panelled (walls and ceiling) with a dark wood. Torch-like wall lamps give the room an almost mock-medieval look. A larger guest lounge and breakfast room are located one level up where the mood of days gone by continues.

Here you find colourful antique wooden chairs with gilt trim, large wall murals, and stained-glass window. A lighter note appears in arched windows that open off the breakfast room to a small inner garden courtyard. The bedrooms display the same style: each is individual in decor, but with similar furnishings of ornate painted headboards and coordinating chairs and chests. Some of these pieces of richly painted furniture are exceptionally handsome antiques, while others seem to be reproductions. Although this is a "budget" hotel, the bathrooms are newly remodelled and the rooms all have air conditioning, mini bars, TVs, hairdryers, and direct dial telephones. Another bonus: There's a parking garage in the building.