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Hotel Glories
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3.5 |
Guest name: sebeto, Napoli
Guest type: Honeymoon
stayed in Jul 2007
E' nelle vicinanze della metropolitana, stazione Monumental. Colazione soddisfacente, camera comoda e pulita. Accoglienza estremamente fredda.
My ratings for this hotel are:
3.0 Check in / front desk
3.0 Business service
4.0 Value
3.0 Service
4.0 Rooms
3.0 Location
4.0 Cleanliness
Far from a 'disaster'
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3.5 |
Guest name: NWandJP, Devon, England
Guest type: Honeymoon
stayed in Jul 2007
We enjoyed our stay at Hotel Glories. This 3* hotel is a 3* hotel! Therefore you get what you pay for and as such we cannot complain.
The lift - although small - is not offensive. Our room was spacious and clean. The staff were friendly, helpful and spoke good English. We did not opt for the breakfast. However, the supermarket and bakery next door provided adequate morning refreshment and convenient groceries.
The location was ideal - walking distance from various tourist attractions, including beautiful beaches, Barcelona zoo, and Gaudi's Cathedral.
We would recommend this hotel to anyone looking for a city break in Barcelona.
My ratings for this hotel are:
4.0 Check in / front desk
3.0 Value
4.0 Service
3.0 Rooms
3.0 Location
4.0 Cleanliness
Good hote for a few nights stay
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3.7 |
Guest name: Lindawba, England
This hotel was recommended by a friend who'd stayed there previously and it did not disappoint. It was clean and comfortable and the location whist not exactly central was within easy reach of the tube station and just 10 mins stroll from the Sagrada Familia.
There was a good choice of buffet breakfast and the staff were helpful and spoke excellent English.
If I had to mention the negatives then I think I would say that there wasn't enough light in our room. As we faced the rear of the building (better cus no noise) there was very little natural daylight coming in but the electric lights and lamp hardly gave off any light so putting make up on was not an easy task neither was reading or checking maps.
I have stayed in similar hotels in other cities and it is pretty much what you would expect from a 3 * city hotel. I would stay there again if I went to Barcelona in the future.
Barcelona is a lovely city and there is plenty to see and do.We were aware of pickpockets and have to report that we were involved in an incident on the underground at about 11.40pm one night when 2 black guys sandwiched my 76 year old father on the up escalator. The one in front of him had dropped a cigarette packet and made out like he was bending to pick it up whilst moving from side to side to prevent my Dad overtaking him. Meanwhile the one behind tried to relieve him of his wallet which was in his back pocket. Luckily my Dad felt what was going on and called out to me so we confronted the 2 guys who made out like they were innocent (seeing as they'd failed to obtain the wallet) but it was a classic trick to be aware of - you can't be too careful.
My ratings for this hotel are:
4.0 Check in / front desk
4.0 Business service
4.0 Value
4.0 Service
3.0 Rooms
3.0 Location
4.0 Cleanliness
Were positive suprised
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4.3 |
Guest name: dasbastian, germany - bavaria
I stayed in Glories for a few days in early April. For all you who are too lazy to read all this, I would definitely recommend this hotel. It's 5 min. from the Monumental (L2) metro station away, located in a small alley aside the 2 main roads nearby, so there is almost no traffic noise. There is a tiny supermarket next to the hotel and some bars+restaurants are in the surrounding. All the main attractions can be reached by foot if you like walking through barcelona (which isn't boring at all). The sagrada familia is only 10 min. away, the beach about 20 min. and Les Rambles 25 min. Breakfast is very good and you can eat until 11 o'clock. I can't say anything about the staff cuz I didn't had any problems or requests. The rooms had an appropriate size, were clean and everything worked fine. But don't expect sea view or a view over the city, you either are going to see a backyard or houses. The only downside is, that we booked a doubleroom but had 2 small beds combined to one instead of one big bed. Uh I forgot, the use of the safe is for free.
My ratings for this hotel are:
4.0 Check in / front desk
4.0 Business service
5.0 Value
5.0 Service
4.0 Rooms
4.0 Location
4.0 Cleanliness
Disaster
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1.8 |
Guest name: irishticket, Ireland
Guest type: Honeymoon
stayed in Apr 2007
This hotel is not suitable for a relaxing, romantic break as we had intended. The first problem was the lift - there was not enough room for me (small), my husband (tall,blocky) and 1 small suitcase - we had to squash in! We travelled downward to the basement area. Our room was tiny - a very small double bed pushed right up to the ensuite wall. There was a two foot aisle left in the room! The view from the window was diagonally opposite the neighbouring window and was surrounded by a triangular concrete tunnel - there was daylight somewhere at the top! Extremely dungeon like. The ensuite was long and very narrow - bath/shower way too small and quite grubby. The TV had no english channels. The breakfast room has no daylight at all and a very small breakfast buffet.
Neither of us are closterphobic but we couldn't wait to get out of there. We ended up walking the legs off ourselves in Barcelona as we couldn't bear to be in the hotel any longer than we absolutely had to. We never thought to try and change the room - looking at the website on our return they obviously have larger rooms available. We couldn't wait to get home and the hotel definitely put a damper on our weekend getaway. Will not be recommending to anyone - unless you're a backpacker and just need somewhere small to lay your head ...
My ratings for this hotel are:
3.0 Check in / front desk
1.0 Value
1.0 Rooms
2.0 Location
2.0 Cleanliness