Overall it was fine for a budget hotel, but if I went back again I would find a hotel that was within easier walking distance to the center of town. Highly recommend taking the "blue line and red line" bus tours where you can hop on and off all day. There is so much to see in Barcelona, we just loved it. Great weather in October, though we did get one day of rain. Here are my main pros/cons for this hotel:

Pros
- Very large room and bathroom
- Window that opens and air conditioning
- Keycard needed to power room (very energy efficient)
- Large bath towels
- Lots of good restaurants, coffee shops, and shopping nearby
- Good access to public transportation and tour bus stops
- Decent breakfast with lots of options, including made-to-order eggs, bacon, etc.
- Enough electrical outlets to plug in various devices
- Price
- Staff helpful for sightseeing advice

Cons
- No coffee maker, clock radio, or fridge
- Horrible pillows
- Terrible view out our window--our room looked out into a central area between buildings, and you could see directly into the rooms across the way, forcing us to keep our drapes closed when we were in the room
- Room appearance was utilitarian looking and dreary; hotel in general was a little dreary and dated
- A bit too far to walk to walk to central Barcelona attractions

traveled with my husband and college student daughter. We all met up in Barcelona and realized how handicapped we were by not speaking the language. The front desk help (four young people) were always kind and helpful our exit on the bus when we caught the wrong bus.to the train and they gave us the correct bus number , over the cell phone to get us out to the main train station as we left for a parador in Tortosa. Location is in a safe area with lovely shopping near by, local buses near by, hop on hop off tour buses near by and restaurants near by or within a reasonable walk in high heels to excellent European style restaurants. Room is no frills but comfortable.

I booked this hotel through airmiles for a 3 night stay with my mum as it was on a good offer paid for by airmiles with breakfast. It cost around 25 euros to get there from the airport in a taxi.

We booked a twin room, and the room was large with a big bathroom with both bath and shower. The room was well maintained with a mini bar and plenty and storage space and air conditioning. The room was a front facing room over looking the Avenue Diagonal (which is a VERY busy road) but outside noise was not an issue and never bothered us.

I wouldn't have picked this hotel if I were paying for it (rather than using airmiles) as it was a little further from La Ramblas than I would have liked - it was about a 40 minute walk, but not a bad walk as the Avenue Diagonal is lined with shops and cafe bars and resturants, as are all the smaller streets on the walk down to La Ramblas. But the location isn't too much of an issue as there is a bus stop right outside the door with buses pulling up all the time - several times we caught a taxi from the top of La Ramblas (just outside Hard Rock Cafe) back to the hotel and this cost between 6 and 7 euros.

The best way to see Barcelona and all the sights is using the open top tour buses which are very frequent (about every minutes) and there is a stop about 2 minutes from the hotel so we used these buses and just hopped on and off at all the sights. The buses cost 22 euros for one days travel and 29 euros for two days consecutive travel and they operate two main routes which cover all the main sights in Barcelona and there is a stop for both routes just a couple of minutes walk from the hotel and I think this the buses are great value and the best way to see the city with a full headphone commentry in a variety of languages.

Breakfast was included and this was a breakfast buffet selection which included a limited range of fruit, lots of pastries and meats and bread and on the whole was nice. The service left a little to be desired - we were never welcomed into the breakfast room or asked if we wanted anything cooking from the hot menu (which was an option), as did the hot drink selection as the water for the tea and coffee etc was in flasks and was quite often just warm rather than hot - but this aside, it was still a reasonably nice breakfast and nothing really to complain about.

A couple of down sides to the room were there was absolutely no information in the room at all about the hotel - such as checking out times etc, usually this comes as standard in a hotel room but there was nothing at all. We also didn't realise until the second day that if we wanted maid service to make up the beds we had to leave a sign on the door to ask that they come and change the towels etc - we only found this by chance by looking at the back of the 'do not disturb sign'. (Not a negative, but just for info there was no tea and coffee tray)

This is a good tourist class hotel and good value for money - clean and well maintained and a good base for exploring the city.

10 mins walk to Nou Camp- Amazing views from 8th floor, balcony, A/C
close to Starbucks, KFC's, Mc D's, Chinese restaurant. 5 mins to Clinic Metro station, 2 mins to Taxi rank, next to Bus Touristic stops, both red route and blue route, Ave Diagonal is a fantasic tree lined 13km street.
will be back and told staff that i'd be highly recommending this Hotel esp. Covadonga- it under rated and should diff be a 4 star-