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Laopooh posted:I'm arriving in Barcelona on Thursday as stop one on a year long backpacking trip and wanted to get some tips. I've booked my first night at a hostel for 10 euros but it looks like most cheap places are fully booked. My budget is about $30 a day so I was hoping to find more cheap places, will I be SOL? Saw this a day late but... General Barca tips (when i get time im going to write a huge post about the city) Check out all the Gaudi stuff, if your really broke just look at it from the outside If you have time go to Tibidabo - train from placa Catalunya, skip the tram and walk for 20 min when you are off the train, but do take the funicular The beach is amazing, but it is very full. When you get there walk towards the big gold fish (port Olympic) it is quieter down there - or go even further and walk for 5 min further, behold a nearly empty beach Hostel Recommendations (although these will all be about 25€ a night right now): Kabul (big but fun) Barcelona Sound / Barcelona Mar (nice atmosphere, good locations) HelloBCN (big, cheap beer) Sant Jordi Diagnol / the whole group - great places, expensive Avoid Sun & Moon (lock out between 3 and 5, awful staff, no atmosphere, although great location) If you need a place to stay thats cheap then go on the ramblas one evening and ask someone who is flyering for a pub crawwl(you will see them, there is hundreds) if they know anywhere to stay I could list good bars but there is a lot, Ryans is cheapest, Travel bar has good staff, ask your hostel. clubs: Opium is great and the second biggest, amazing beach terrace - however it will cost you 15-20 euro to get in most night (ask your hostel, they will know someone who can get you in for free) Apollo - The best place on Mondays and Tuesdays - the rest of the time it sucks Razmatazz - the best and biggest, 5 floors, live bands, DJ's - only open on Fridays and Saturdays (i think) - will cost you 15€ Catwalk - ok club, not as good as a lot of people say. - 15€ City hall - good outside area, ok club if you like house music - normally get free entry Moog - to small, i don't like it. Quite a few people do - free entry normally Jamboree - Good if you like r&b - free until 1 Boulevard - Tourist club on Las Ramblas, you will only like it if it is the first club in the city you have been to - free until 1 there is more but they are the main ones. Never go to a club before 1am (they will be empty) Never buy drinks in a club (in Catwalk a vodka and coke is 12€) The metro system is amazing and you can get anywhere within about 15 min travel They are the basics, any specific questions and i can answer them edit: 4 rules of Barcelona: Never carry anything you don't want to lose (you will get robbed) Never sleep on the beach at night If someone who looks a bit shady starts talking to you then back off and keep distance between you Don't get blind drunk and walk about on your own Skam fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Jul 16, 2010 |
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duckmaster posted:then you should probably talk her out of going to Barcelona in the first place. If she does you are both going to die. No one dies in Barcelona.. you will just be robbed blind in your first night 
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Shampy posted:Any of you fine folks in Barcelona? I just got here yesterday to start my CELTA course on Tuesday. I highly doubt it but I just wanted to reach out and see if there was anyone else around here to maybe hang out with. My sister whom I'm staying with is working and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed right now with the city. Im here, have been for over a year now (my spanish still sucks) send me an email to barcelonapartytour@gmail.com and we can go get a drink somewhere
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I agree with that whole Rome post except for the metro part, the city is tiny and the only time you really need the metro is going to the Vatican and maybe Trastevere. Walk everywhere else, start halfway down via cavour (or near Termini). Do the trevi fountain, Spanish steps, Pantheon, Colosseum id say you really need 3 days, but you can do it in 2 at a push edit: no metro to Trastevere, i forgot and can't remember if metro tickets work on busses Skam fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Sep 28, 2010 |
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several wet dogs posted:Okay, so I'm pretty confident the age thing is a non-issue, but now I have another query. What's the deal with the hostel prices I'm seeing online? They are more than I was expecting, from €30 per person per night for a shared dorm, to as much as €70 for a private one (which is what we'd prefer). In regards to the private dorms, I've seen many regular hotels with rooms for the same amount or less! they should be a lot less then that, for example this is the barcelona listing on hostelworld for next weekend http://www.hostelworld.com/search?search_keywords=Barcelona%2C+Spain&country=Spain&city=Barcelona as long as you dont mind staying in a larger dorm you should not be paying more then 12€, i have seen them as cheap as 7€ a night in the week if you are after a private room it often works out cheaper to stay in a cheap hostal or pensione rather then a hostel, mainly because a hostel will probably have more facilitys (internet, washing, common area etc..) Skam fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Nov 14, 2010 |
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DreddyMatt posted:Gonna be in Barcelona for just over 2 weeks at the end of March. Aside from the Ramlas and Gaudi things, what should I try and check out? Graffiti hostel changed owners in the last few months and i have been told it is not cleaned very well anymore and has questionable security, there recent reviews are not very good, however it is cheap so if thats your main priority then yeah its ok. Id be tempted to go for one in the center. I recommend either Barcelona Mar or Sound. Although they might be a bit expensive. The bike idea is good. but remember you are also going to have to buy a lock which can often set you back as much as the bike (my bike was 35€, my locks came to 30€) The cheapest bike rental place is 5€ a day, just off the ramblas by Liceu metro stop. (if i can remember its name ill edit it in later) The main tourist attractions are of course the Gaudi items, Las Ramblas and the beach. parc ciutadella is nice and i recommend Tibidabo (old amusement park on the top of a mountain with a big church and views over the whole city) Now can someone tell me a little about Amsterdam? im moving there in a couple of weeks, i already have a place to stay sorted and a few connections with jobs, but can anyone tell me anymore obscure things that would be good to know?
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Anyone know anywhere i can stay in Amsterdam that isn't going to cost 40€ a night at the weekend? hostel prices just from 13€ a night mon-thurs to 40-50€ a night fri-sun
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jeoh-kun posted:Stayokay is generally pretty cheap, especially if you're booking for a longer time. If you're willing to share a room with drunken British students, of course. they want 36€ a night for this weekend 
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