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Barcelona information
Google map, hostel details, activities, nightlife and cost calculation
As a member you will have, in addition to the information in this document, also a Google map with marked locations of hostels, airports, bus/train/metro stations, nightlife areas, night clubs, salsa clubs, sightseeing locations and other locations of interest.
You will furthermore have important accommodation details such as price and contact information beside other information about activities and nightlife.
You will also have a detailed cost estimation.
Highlights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona#Main_sights
http://wikitravel.org/en/Barcelona#See
Barri Gòtic
Parc Güell
Sagrada Família
La Pedrera / Casa Milà
La Casa Batlló
Las Ramblas
La Plaça Catalunya
El Portal de l'Àngel
Beachfront boardwalk
Palau Güell
Casa Vicens
Palau de la Música Catalana
Hospital de Sant Pau
The Cathedral of St. Eulalia
Santa Maria del Mar
Sant Pau del Camp
Palau Reial Major
Columbus Monument
Arc de Triomf
Barcelona beach gained the status of best urban beach in the world according to National Geographic and Discovery Channel, with total third best beach in the World.
National Museum of Art of Catalonia
Internet resources and guidebooks
http://beta.arrivalguides.com/sv/Travelguides/Europe/Spain/BARCELONA
http://wikitravel.org/en/Barcelona
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona
http://www.adlibris.com/se/product.aspx?isbn=1741795931
Money
Euro, see http://www.forex.se/ and http://www.forex.se/sv/Valuta/Resmal/?c=374.
Climate & When To Go
http://www.holidaycheck.com/climate-wetter_Barcelona-ebene_oid-id_2378.html
Average water temperature in Celsius
June 19
July 22
August 24
September 22
October 20
Flights ( 4 nights, Thursday => Monday )
Travel Help recommends you to use www.reseguiden.se when you are planning your flights for a long-weekend in Europe. Use the +/- 3 days menu and fetch all flight costs. Some costs for weekend departures are missing which seems to be a program error. Most likely you want to travel before Saturday and Sunday and in such a case this error has minor importance. An overview of all costs for different departure and return dates immediately gives you information about which travel dates you should avoid due to high flight costs. You also get an indication of which travel dates have the lowest costs, especially if some low cost air companies only fly on some week days.
The example below was for 2012 and the search was done on 2012-02-23 for flights from Gothenburg. Book your flights as early as possible to get the lowest prices. You should book your flights before Christmas if you want the absolute best flight prices for the next year.
Flight (Austrian Airlines) on Thursday: Gothenburg/Landvetter 12:30 => Vienna => Barcelona 19:40
Flight (Brussels Airlines) on Monday: Barcelona 09:10 => Brussels => Gothenburg/Landvetter 17:05
The price in this example is 1.714 SEK on 2012-02-23 for flights in August.
Ryainair has also direct flights from Gothenburg to Girona. Here is an example from Wednesday to Wednesday.
Gothenburg 20:50 => Girona 23:40 (Too late for public transport to Barcelona!)
Girona 17:27 => Gotheburg 20:25
Shown flight prices are 389 + 319 SEK = 708 SEK
After taxes the total price is 1.069 SEK and you have to pay an additional 526 SEK for a 15 kg bag.
The total price is then 1.596 SEK or in other words more than twice the shown flight price. It will be even more if you have a 20 kg bag which is normal.
The member information contains further information on how you get the absolute lowest flight prices!
Airports & airport transfers
Useful address is www.world-airport-codes.com.
Gothenburg airports are www.landvetter.lfv.se and www.goteborgcityairport.se.
Barcelona El Prat Airport (BCN)
http://www.airwise.com/airports/europe/barcelona/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Airport
http://www.world-airport-codes.com/spain/el-prat-de-llobregat-610.html
Transfer between airport and hostel
Bus: Prat Airport => Plaça Catalunya ( ? SEK )
If you arrive by plane, Prat Airport: you should take the "AEROBUS", get off at the last stop "Plaça Catalunya".
Metro: Plaça Catalunya => Paral•lel station ( ? SEK )
Take there the metro LINE 3 (green line)
and stop at Paral•lel station. (check 'from metro station
"paral•lel").
Walk: Paral•lel station => Mambo Tango Hostel
From the Metro Station
"Paral•lel" (green line - L3) you have to take the exit Sant Pau, and
then Fontrodona. when you get of the metro just walk straight 1 minute, when
you see Domino's Pizza turn to the left! The street is called Poeta Cabanyes,
so walk to the number 23!
Accommodation photos
Getting around
http://wikitravel.org/en/Barcelona#Get_around
Nightlife
The location of the hostel or hotel is very important. The ideal location is of course within walking distance to nightlife, close to tourist attractions, close to shopping, close to the beach and easy to reach from the airport. Many times you have to prioritize since there are no hostels or hotels with high ratings which are close to all of them. Travel Help prioritize high rating hostels which are within walking distance to nightlife. The reason is of course that during the day you can always travel by bus or subway. After midnight you usually have to walk or take an expensive taxi.
Extensive information about nightlife areas and nightclubs will be published here in the future. You will have a map where you can see the locations of all the interesting places, addresses to the good nightclubs with a little information about each of them. We will inform you about the clubs which are most popular and also some information about clubs for people over 30. Nightclubs open and close and it is therefore difficult to have all information up to date. You will therefore get web addresses to the clubs so you can check if they still are alive.
While waiting for the information to be published here you have to find it yourself on Internet. Search for ‘cityname’ and ‘nightlife’ on www.google.com. www.salsapower.com has the best information about salsa dance clubs.
Dangers & Annoyances
Please be very careful about pick pockets in Barcelona, they make very good tricks, be aware especially at the metro when you are arriving with all your belongings on you, and also at all the tourist attractions.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Barcelona#Stay_safe