By Bus, Barcelona

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There are a number of double decker buses that a person can take to see the sites around the city. A lot of the bus rides are 1/2 day, or 4 hours worth for 25-30 Euro normally. If you took a full day on/off ride on the bus, it may range around 30-40 Euro. If you were to choose a third option of guided tour to sites for a 1/2 day, the price is about 60 Euro. They stop at approximately 10 stops for 5-15 minutes each, and the guide describes the site history and information.

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The subway is easy t get to places around the city, but then the choice is to walk, or catch a bus. Bus fare is 1,40 Euro each, or a multiple ticket of ten averages ,80 Euro a ride. There is a 75 minute connection availability to get from subway to a bus, or bus to bus. In other words if you transfer within 75 minutes, the transfer is free.

After taking the subway toward Park Guell, the next choice is to walk up the steep streets, find the escalator to get more directly to the top, or take the bus to the stop there. We took the bus; number 24 from Plaza Lesseps stop from the subway. It takes about 20 minutes and around 10 stops to get to the park. The bus was jammed with excess of people while we were there at 11AM. Bus fee is 1,40 Euro, or .80 if buy the multiple tickets of ten.

Regular city bus is the cheapest way to get to the airport! Cheaper than Aerobus, cheaper than train, cheaper than taxi... they depart from both terminals and cost 1,45eur.
You can read the details (different busses and schedules) on: http://hguides.com/barcelona/airport/

On arrival at Barcelona airport, I headed to the Information booth to get a map, some info and my bus touristic tickets. The woman who served me was quite helpful and could speak English .

There are many ways to reach the city, but I found the Aero Bus to be cheap and convenient. I didn’t have to wait for a Bus, they run every 5 minutees. The only catch is you have to load your luggage in the rack yourself, which may be rather hard if you are a woman with heavy luggage.
You can buy your ticket from the staff at the bus stops (payment in cash or by credit card), automatic machines (payment in cash or by credit card), but we paid the Driver of the Bus direct (cash payments only).

It takes about 35 minutes to reach the City from either of the Airport Terminals (T1 or T2).

The ride to the city was fast and in …………
2011 cost 5.30 euro’s one way.
Return tickets are available for…9.15 Euro's and are valid for RETURN up to 9 days after purchasing.

We were dropped off in Rambla de Catalunya, this was very convenient, and for our return trip, it was from the same place.

When I visit a city for the first time I like to take a city tour to familiarize myself with the layout of the city. I highly recommend Barcelona Tours, they are one of several double decker busses offering a "Loop" tour going to most of the tourist attractions in Barcelona. You can pick up the bus anywhere on their route, you can purchase a 1 or 2 day pass and get on and off the bus as many times as you like within the purchased time. The tour is narrated in many languages; with your tour ticket you will be given a map and earphones which plug into the busses audio system.
My suggestion is to purchase a 2 day pass and spend one day touring all of Barcelona, take notes of what you want to see then on the second day go back to visit the places that interest you.
Look for the orange busses.

The Public Transportation in SPAIN is very good, frequent, punctual and reliable.

But most important are the two following reason to take a bus every now and then: it is quite cheap, cheaper than hiring a car or go somewhere by taxi and it is a great opportunity to see lots and lots of the country and countryside!

Give it a try and you will be enthousiastic too!

Most people dont know about it but there is another way to get to barcelona apart from the aerobus,what most tourists would take at the airport. It is true that thats the quickest way to pl.catalunya ,but if you have time you can save some money by taking bus 46 which goes to pl.espana every 20minutes (from there you can easily access everything by metro or other buses) ,or bus N17 at night,which goes to pl.catalunya also every 20minutes. The disadvantage is that these are normal buses,not really designed to fit huge bags,so sometimes you would see bags sliding all over the place :) N17 goes through Prat in the evening which makes the "trip" much longer.