Experience at La Isabela – Hotel 1898

hi just back from your hotel. had a wonderful time your hotel is fantastic rooms, staff terrace all great but only 1 drawback which is a major one for us. the price of soft drinks and water is ludicrous. we paid 6 euro for a drink of water and another 6 euro for a cola when we were at the pool one morning 12 euro in total because we were thirsty. it totally put us off having lunch or spending more time at pool as this was bad value for money. we have often spent more than this at a hotel pool but we would have had morning drinks ,lunch and afternoon coffee and sometimes more. it is not the amount but the value for money that counts. we went out for lunch and went to the beach on other days. it is money lost to your hotel which is a pity as you have got the rest right. we are not the only people who felt this and the pool is a major decision when choosing a hotel. please look at this as we would love to return but would choose somewhere else if this is still an isssue. Thanking you for a lovely holiday especially the wonderful staff at breakfast.

Experience written by sandra eglington, July 2010.

Hotel 1898 in Las Ramblas ..::.. La Isabela – H1898 terrace

Live FIFA World Cup 2010 from Barcelona

Núñez i Navarro Hotels will offer you for free the FIFA World Cup matches on TV. We have all the matches, all the national teams, both on the Group Stage and the Rounds of 16, Quarters, Semifinals and the World Final of July 11th.

The FIFA World Cup, also called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of World War II.

Seven nations have won the title. Brazil have won the World Cup a record five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. Italy, the current champions, have won four titles, and Germany are next with three titles. The other former champions are Uruguay, winners of the inaugural tournament, and Argentina, with two titles each, and England and France, with one title each.

Stay at our nine hotels in Barcelona city center and follow your national team from your hotel room in Barcelona !!

Music in the Parks of Barcelona

Last wednesday, 2nd June, started the inaugural concert in the latest “Music in the Parks” cycle, organised by the Barcelona City Council Environment Area, with a performance by the Sant Andreu Jazz Band – the youngest big band in Europe – in the Teatre Grec Gardens.

The concert has opened new “Music in the Parks” programme. Now a traditional event, this year it aims to reach more people by raising the number of city parks holding the concerts to eight, doubling last year’s total.

It includes three parallel programmes, classical music, jazz and sessions by the Banda Municipal de Música of Barcelona, and these run from 2 June until 25 August.

There are 28 concerts in this year’s cycle. The Municipal Band’s concerts will take place in the Creueta del Coll, Diagonal Mar, Barceloneta and Guineueta parks. Turó Parc, the Príncep de Girona Gardens and the Hivernacle (Winter Garden) in Parc de la Ciutadella will hold the classical music concerts, while the Drets Humans (Human Rights) Gardens and the Hivernacle will hold the jazz sessions. The Municipal Band concerts start at 8 pm and the classical music and jazz concerts begin at 10 pm. All concerts are free and in the open air and you don’t need to book in advance.

The summer park concert programme came about fifteen years ago. The aim is top bring quality music to every kind of audience and to encourage performers by young musicians, while promoting the possibilities offered by parks as meeting places and recreational areas on summer nights and evenings.

Sponsored by DAMM Free, the event is being collaborated on by Cespa, UME Unión Musical, El Periódico, Time Out, Aigües Veri, the Conservatori del Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC).

This weekend don’t miss the daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English) is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson.

During this weekend, the night of Saturday 27 to Sunday 28 March, we advance the clocks one hour: at two o’clock will become three, to adapt to daylight saving time. Núñez i Navarro Hotels will be remembered by notices in the reception of our new hotel in downtown Barcelona.

An early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity. Although energy conservation remains an important goal, energy usage patterns have greatly changed since then, and recent research is limited and reports contradictory results. Electricity use is greatly affected by geography, climate, and economics, making it hard to generalize from single studies.

Roxy Music at Sonar Barcelona

British band Roxy Music will be performing at the next Sonar, thirty years after they last played in the city. Other groups joining the line-up are New Young Pony Club, Cabo San Roque and Aufgang. Find your hotel in Barcelona.
 

Dance pioneers with the song “Angel Eyes”, they made synthesisers fashionable, were the precursors of punk and new wave and the standard-bearers of glamour on stage. Roxy Music is a band ahead of their time, which is why they are going to play at Sonar.

Sonar, the advanced music and multimedia art festival, takes place in Barcelona every year during three days in June. Sonar’s diverse artistic offer splits between the Sonar by Day activities and Sonar by Night, together with some simultaneous gigs like the performances at L’Auditori.

Together with Roxy Music, Sonar 2010 will also feature The Chemical Brothers, Delorean or The Pinker Tones among others.

Núñez i Navarro Hotels offers you nine hotels in Barcelona, centrally located, next to Sonar by Day venues and well connected to Sonar by Night premises.

More inf@: Sonar 2010 website

Win a free stay in Barcelona with NNHotels

Once again, NN Hotels is giving a free stay to one of our guests, who shared with us his / her review after staying in Barcelona.

This time the lucky winner is: Jesús Martínez, who posted his comments on the Spanish version of our blog. Congratulations!!!!
He will be soon emailed with the details of his Free Stay at B-Hotel.

We continue encouraging our guests to express their opinions about our nine centrally located hotels in Barcelona, and on July 1st 2010 we will give another free stay, this time at Hotel Jazz, just next to Plaza Catalunya.

The prize consists of:

• A two nights stay in at Hotel Jazz with Breakfast included.
• Welcome Drink at the Jazz Bar.
• To be used between: July 1st and September 30th 2010 (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

Swatch FIVB Beach Volley World Tour’09

Everything is ready at the Magic Fountain of Montjuic for the Hyundai Open Barcelona, the Spanish stop most event titles in a season. Players have enjoyed training on an amazing scenery, including local ones Esther Alcon and Olga Matveeva. The winners of Spanish Championship last weekend, Liliana Fernandez Steiner-of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour, where the Brazilian Larissa Franca and Juliana Felisberta will look for a record for Elsa Baquerizo, are also arrived to Barcelona.

From 8th – 13th September the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc (la Font Màgica de Montjuïc) will be home, for the second year running, to the women’s stop of the Swatch FIVB Beach Volley World Tour’09. Entrance is free – seating is limited to the capacity of the enclosure.

125 players from 50 countries, 4 playing courts, more than 100 games and 200,000 dollars in prizes are some the numbers in this event with the best beach volleyball in the world. The building operatives have started to pour the 1.500 tones of silica sand that will cover over the four competition tracks and the training track. Together with the five tracks, the tiers of seats for 3.000 spectators were also built.

NN Hotels: www.nnhotels.com | B-Hotel is our nearest hotel is located in Plaza Espanya, only 3 minutes walking to Magic Fountain of Montjuic.

Next BAM 2009 Festival

The 17th BAM, which takes place between 23 and 26 September, will be offering over sixty concerts spread around various venues, like Plaça Reial, Parc del Fòrum and the new stage on Rambla del Raval. With little over a month remaining before the start of BAM, the festival line-up continues to grow as more artists confirm they will be taking part.

Just a few weeks ago we learnt the Swedish band The Hives, Catalan pop phenomenon Manel, The Vision & The Dancers, creators of the song of the summer, Billie, and home-grown folk group El Petit de Cal Eril will be setting foot on one of the BAM 2009 stages.

Now there are more confirmations. Musicians from around the world have a notable role in the festival programme, which this year includes Cui Jian, pioneer of rock&roll in China, DJ Shantel, who will be bringing his Balkan rhythms, and Terry Lynn, a Jamaican who is redefining reggae.

Like every year there will be a good representation from the Catalan and Spanish scenes, with the presence of Barcelona band Inspira, Pájaro Sunrise from Leon, with their lively pop, and post-punk band CatPeople.

The American indie scene is sending two big names to BAM: The Duke & The King, the band of Simone Felice from The Felice Brothers, and Dirty Projectors, one of the revelations of the year.

Completing the bill we have Estanislau Verdet, The Pepper Pots, Calima, La Kinky Beat and Rock de Souk, who will be presenting Nour, Speed Caravan and Rabah Donquishoot.

BAM Festival (myspace)  |  NN Hotels: www.nnhotels.com

Parc de la Ciutadella & Yoga studio.

Yoga is an oriental discipline that is thousands of years old and gradually spreading to Western culture. A product of Hinduism, it seeks to connect the unconscious and conscious mind, while uniting mind and body.

It works on the physical body but also on the endocrine glands and internal organs with the aim of keeping the body healthy, achieving physical as well as mental and spiritual health, and personal realisation.

Yoga mixes sport, meditation and relaxation and, apart from generating energy and vitality, it also helps to reduce stress.

Taking advantage of the good weather, Parc de la Ciutadella is turning itself into an improvised yoga studio, where you can learn to relax to the singing of the birds while you recharge your batteries.

Amelie Strecker and Raphaella Rose are two teachers who teach various techniques and yoga exercises every Tuesday and Thursday in August, starting at 11am.

A yoga class involves a succession of exercises combining postures, movements, and breathing and sight control. Each exercise is followed by a short relaxation that serves to introduce the next.

Links:

• Web de Amelie Strecker
• Web de Raphaella Rose

Apart from the morning classes, you can also go to Parc de la Ciutadella on Wednesdays at 7pm for an evening class charged with energy and strength.

NN Hotels: www.nnhotels.com

Grazie BHotel Barcellona

bellissimo e confortevole hotel!! siamo stati 5 giorni al B Hotel con due bambini ed è stato un piacevolissimo soggiorno: camere silenziose, confortevoli e pulite, un’ottimo servizio per il bar e la colazione, una piscina magnifica per rilassarsi e rinfrescarsi dopo i tour per barcellona ed infine una posizione unica per comodità negli spostamenti.

Grazie BHotel e a presto.

Recensione scritta da paolo, August 2009.

website: www.b-hotel.com

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