Hotel Colón Barcelona

Location location

They have a strange housekeeping rule - book three nights separately and you get coffee but book multiple nights and you need to pay for replacement coffee - this is the first time in hundreds of hotel stays that I have seen this! Of course the room is advertised as with coffee

The location is of course perfect. The new design of the rooms is clean and neat.

We had a room overlooking a bar on the back of the hotel on first floor (125) and it was kind of noisy with the deliveries of the shops in front. The hotel is proioting its terrace and view and allowing access to people who are not staying at the hotel. This is very inconvenient. The terrace is all the time full of people coming from outside and it makes it difficult for the hotel guest to find an available spot there. This also makes the pool area kind of uncomfortable since the visitors are all the time checking the area and it therefore lacks privacy. When you pay a room 250€ per night you would expect some privacy but apparently the hotel favours visitors who come in for a drink and just for checking the view.. On the same note the room is equiped with a coffe machine which is nice but if you want to replace the capsules it will cost you 13€ extra ... Again with such room rates one would expect the capsules to be replaced everyday without any extra cost. Opening the terrace to visitors also makes the elevators constantly busy and brings a lot of circulation in the Hotel and is really not enjoyable.

The location was excellent, near to transportation in Placa Catalunya and busy shopping streets

The internet was intermittent, at best. The room was warm and unable to cool since the air conditioning was not available and opeining the windows unveiled a noisy street beneath.