Beautiful room, clean and have everything you need

We had a great stay in Hotel Barcelona Universal for five nights from 14 till 19 September. We stayed there during our Herbalife Extravaganza, because it looks good on the website and it was central to Palau Saint Jordi, where the convention was.
It was better than expected. Friendly staff who appoliziged that we had no rooms together (3 families). Beautiful room, clean and have everything you need.
There was a wide choice at breakfast. The nice swimming pool on the roof gives us a nice view over the city and a pleasant relaxing bath.
This hotel will be our standard whan we visit Barcelona. Till next year!

Monique and Maarten, Sept 2011.

Thank you Hotel Barcelona Universal

To All the staff at Barcelona Universal Hotel,

Just wanted to thank you for being so wonderfully helpful and professional during our stay. It was our first time in Barcelona and you really made it a special occasion. We were really grateful for your help and advice on our travel and excursion arrangements. The service was truly exceptional.

The hotel is pristine and beautifully decorated. We will be recommending your hotel to all of our friends and contacts.

Looking forward to our next stay with you.

Experience posted by rebeccablinston, Sept 2011.

Hotel Barcelona Universal review

Dear all at Barcelona Universal Hotel.

Just a quick note to say how much we enjoyed our stay at your hotel. We stayed 14th August -20th August. Our Room excellent, bathroom too. All the staff were very nice and efficient. Great advice on buses and other travel details at the front desk. The gentleman who took the cases into the store was really nice, we had to go to our bags on many occasions. Nothing was too much trouble for him. We arrived early Sunday from the night train from Paris.
The buffet breakfast is one of the best we have experienced excellent choice and kept us going until evening .
The city is fantastic all the art and buildings, you must be very proud of. Pity that so much bad press about pick pockets, we just acted sensibly walking through the local streets was no problem at all. We live in a very multicultural city in England and found the streets around the hotel interesting and not at all worrying.

There was so much to see so we may come back for a visit again as we didn’t get to visit all the great galleries and old streets. Perhaps a few more days on the beach.

I think the only thing we missed is having a kettle in our room to make tea and coffee in the afternoon, must be a British thing!

Thank you all again for a very nice stay at your hotel, all the emails we sent before we arrived were dealt with promptly and this gave us a good room.
Kind regards

Mr and Mrs. Lionel Pearson

Excellent and Personalized Service – Wonderful Hotel

My 2 grown daughters, wife and I stayed in two rooms at the Barcelona Universal Hotel from July 29-August 1. It was a wonderful stay. The hotel staff assisted us with hotel and non-hotel matters: from recommendations for great restaurants and the best way to use the subway, to changing my daughters’ room (within 5 minutes!) when one of my daughters said the mattress was too soft for her taste and to arranging a late check-out. Our rooms were very clean and inviting. The hotel offered excellent value for the rate which we paid. In recent years, I can’t remember having a better hotel experience.

The only recommendation for improvement that I would make is the result of me being a vegetarian. The buffet breakfast (which was included in our rate) had an excellent range of meats (which I don’t eat), but had very little in the way of salads or fresh vegetables. There was some cheese, fresh fruit and yogurt, but only tomatoes (no lettuce, cucumbers or salads as such).  I would encourage the addition of fresh salads or salad vegetables.

I would enthusiastically recommend this hotel to friends (even vegetarians) and will choose it again if/when we return to Barcelona.

Experience posted by JeffMaccabim, August 2011.

The Hotel Barcelona Universal is about a 6 minute walk to the Rambles

We selected this hotel based on the location and the reviews, and having stayed there
I must say it was our best stay of our entire trip.
We arrived early morning and as our suite was not ready we sat in the hotel lobby. My daughter had caught the stomach bug on the plane and had fever. The management was kind enough to give us a temporary room so that she could rest. What a nice gesture, would never forget this.
The hotel is very clean, our suite on the 9th floor was out of this world, the sheer space, comfy beds, safe and cleanliness was superb.
The staff and management of the hotel are very friendly, providing guidance, maps, directions and suggestions e.g. they told us to get the T10 which was more economical.
The location is key, the hotel is about a 6 minute walk to the Rambles, all the streets are safe. We used to walk back to our hotel at 1 am with no concerns.
We started our day of with a wonderful warm buffet breakfast , wonderful coffee at the hotel, this gave us a great start to our day.
I would definitely rate this hotel as a 5 star, and would definitely stay here again.

By Neelam | Suite Skyline Barcelona, stay from 30th of  june to 05th of july 2011.

Hotel Barcelona Universal: Sehr empfehlenswert

Das Hotel Barcelona Universal hat unsere Erwartungen voll erfüllt. Zimmer, Frühstück, Service ob an der Rezeption oder an der Dachterassenbar, alles in unserem Sinne gut. Das Zimmer 218 hatte sogar noch eine große Terasse, so dass vor dem Zubettgehen dort noch ein Bier genommen werden konnte. Wir würden bei einem Aufenthalt in Barcelona erneut dieses Hotel buchen. Sehr empfehlenswert.

Experience posted by Schöenenberg, July 2011.

We would definatley stay with you again in the future.

We have just returned from our stay with you and I wanted to write and thank you for a lovely holiday we had.  All your staff were friendly and helpful and made us feel really welcome.  We would definatley stay with you again in the future.

Thanks again
Katie, June 2011

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We really enjoyed our stay at your hotel

We really enjoyed our stay at your hotel. We liked the fact there were ample hotel personnel when we returned to the hotel late at night. Our room was very clean. We appreciated the fact that our room was available when we arrived at the hotel around 11:30 a.m. after a long flight. The breakfast hours were convenient, and the buffet was very nice. We particularly enjoyed the celebration in a Barcelona after the big soccer win!

Buena noches,
La familiar Platt, June 2011. Hotel Barcelona Universal

Hotel Barcelona Universal: much more than what you pay for

The old adage goes; you get what you pay for.

In all things this is mostly true – however there are a few rare exceptions out there and Hotel Barcelona Universal is one of them.

Hotel Barcelona Universal is one of these rare cases where you get so much more than what you pay for – you get true value for each penny spent. I cannot even begin to list how impressed I was with what this hotel provided. We felt truly cared for; and while this is commonplace at hotels such as the Waldorf in New York, the d’Angleterre in Copenhagen, the Mamonia in Marrakesh it was not what I expected from a fairly cheap hotel picked by more or less chance on a vague recommendation from a friend.

The Hotel is located a few minutes walk from the Rambla. A few minutes walk from the Port Vell and the Rambla del Mar, and a mere second away from the closest subway. A walk to plaze Catalunya takes about 10 mins at a slow pace looking at the shops in the backalleys and is quite a charming experience. The Barcelona Universal gives you the opportunity to experience life in Barcelona by making you take a short walk through a few genuine, “untouristy” blocks before landing you smack down in the middle of the Rambla. Or you could simply hop on the metro outside the hotel and go where ever you like.

Inside the hotel itself we were greeted by the doorman every time we came or went, and the staff were always very helpful no matter what we asked for. The rooms were meticulously clean and tastefully decorated. Minibar, TV with USB (Just bring what you want to watch on a USB stick, plug it in on the back of the TV and use the remote) and bathtub was standard as was WiFi albeit it was a bit shaky and up and down at times.

The breakfast buffet deserves special attention since it was on par with the most exclusive hotels I’ve visited (see above) although somewhat smaller. Several kinds of bread, including rye and darker breads, eggs, bacon, sausages (worth trying, they were excellent) quiches, juices, yoghurts, fruits, croissantes, and more where aplenty. Worth mentioning for those of you with a sweet tooth is that at each buffet were atleast two kinds of cake and several kinds of doughnuts and muffins.

As for other accommodations worth mentioning one cannot forget the rooftop pool and the astroturf garden / sundeck on the top floor together with the small but clean and well stocked gym also on the top floor located next to the pool. The surrounding decked area is stocked with comfortable lounge chairs and as made for bringing your own beer and taking in the panoramic view over the city.

All in all – this hotel gives you the most bang for your buck I’ve ever come across. Friendly and helpful staff, clean and tasteful rooms, freedom to move around and simply enjoy the city and your accommodation to the fullest.

Four stars in the guide – I’d give it Four+ and a half

Enjoy your stay as much as we did!

Experience posted by hanning, May 2011.

Free Stay at Hotel Barcelona Universal!

We have just raffled our complimentary stay in Barcelona between all the comments posted by our clients. And the winner of a free stay at the B-Hotel of Barcelona is …

The lucky winner was… Sheila for her review last February 2011 during her stay at Hotel Barcelona Universal. Congratulations!!!

And as has become a tradition in our blog NN Experiences, another chance to win free accommodation in Barcelona. The hotel chosen this time, it’s Hotel Barcelona Universal located in avenida Paral·lel, a four stars hotel only 5 minutes walking from Las Ramblas. The next drawing will carry it out of all the comments received by August 28, 2011.

The prize consists of:

• A two nights stay in at Hotel Barcelona Universal with Breakfast included.
• Bottle of Cava.
• To be used between: from September 01, 2011 to December 28, 2011 (Subject to Availability).
• No changes can be made once the reservation has been confirmed.
• The prize can not be used in conjunction with other item or goods.
• The prize can not be exchanged for any other item or goods.
• The prize is personal and non-transferable.

Only people who have already stayed in one of our nine hotels and post a review on the blog are eligible for the prize. Winners will be advised via e-mail and their name and surname will be published on the blog.

If you have any queries, please send a message to the following address: newsletter@nnhotels.com

Good luck to all participants!

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