112 Reviews
Sleep&Fly
El Prat de Llobregat|1.12km from Barcelona Airport
What you're getting with this place location, location, location, as you can drop your rental car the night before and easily get to your plane the next morning. This is especially convenient, given the current CDC rule that requires a negative COVID test within 24 hours of your flight to the US. There's a place in Terminal 1 where you can reserve a test the afternoon before--way better than other offsite options, in my opinion. As for the hotel, don't expect a lot of the room. The one we got was very basic, small and a little weird in that there was no door in front of the toilet and the shower looked out onto the hallway if the door was opened. This lack of privacy may necessitate one in your party vacating the room while the other takes care of certain business, lest an uncomfortable level of embarrassment be entertained. Beyond that, they could use a good mechanic around this place and perhaps a bit of exterminating. The handle to the sink kept falling off. And the phone you were supposed to use to call so they can let you in through the locked sidewalk entrance was broken. So was the other contraption that I gather was supposed to allow your key card to let you in. I used my cellphone to call them (fortunately, they did post the hotel number at this location) and after a few moments --- voila! --- the sliding glass door magically surrendered. A friendly ant was spotted wandering along the exterior threshold of our room's door. And near a planter across from the public restrooms at the back of the hotel, a black roach of alarming size was enjoying a rest. I had no such issues inside our room, but made sure the bags were zipped up at night! And no, I didn't tell my wife about Big Mister Bug---it was too late to swap hotels and I wanted her to get a good night's rest. Breakfast was relatively sp****, but adequate and, actually, the wide selection of croissants was quite tasty. The largest issue for some may be finding this place. It has practically no signage (none at all from what I could tell inside the airport terminal) and good luck asking people who work at the airport where it is. Some told us they didn't think there WAS a hotel in the terminal. Someone here said they were given directions to this place and if I missed those, my bad. But I'm including a proper picture of the entrance and proximity to terminal 1, in case other weary travelers have this same problem. Basically, you hang a right when exiting the departure terminal (floor 3), take the sidewalk to the end and hang a left. The hotel entrance is about three doors down on the right in the adjacent section of building (it's kind of an office center) and it is marked at that point with a sign. It's just not identifiable from a distance. Also, once the door is opened for you, you have to take an elevator down one stop and when the door opens, you're greeted with a rather unappealing hallway with exposed pipes and a soiled blue rug. No worries, though. The
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