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To / From Airport Barcelona
75 Reviews Aerobus gives a constant transport to and fro the airport every 10 minutes from 5:30am to 00:30am every day. Cheap at 5.30 euro. Tickets can be purchased from vending machines or from the...
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Metro Barcelona
122 Reviews In order to get from one general area to another, the subway is the best bet in time and money. The system has a very efficient run operation, and the cars are clean inside, with many running every...
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By Train Barcelona
54 Reviews As I understood, trains could be the best option to head to daytrips from Barcelona. They are convenient and quite cheap. The one, not so far from Catalonia Square, train station is in Gracia street....
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Taxi Cabs Barcelona
34 Reviews Hi, a travel from the airport will cost you at least 20,00, but it depends where are you going in town. Here you can find many information about taxi and prices. It's a good website if you want also...
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Funicular / Blue Tram Barcelona
31 Reviews There are cable cars that go form the end of the line at park Montjuic to take you to the castle Montjuic. The price to ride a mere 1 mile or so at Montjuic is a ripoff 6,50 Euro each way. That is not...
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By Bus Barcelona
77 Reviews This is a definate 'must do' when visiting Barcelona. I would buy the 48hrs ticket. There are 3 bus routes - red, blue and green, and each is well worth it. You can travel on all 3 when you buy your...
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Combined Suggestions Barcelona
55 Reviews The T-10 card is a multi-trip card for the metro/bus/tram/funicular in Barcelona. You put your card in the reader at the metro station and then walk through the opening gates, but leave your card for...
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By Plane Barcelona
68 Reviews It is fairly easy to get around inside the airport, and it is not terribly crowded when we came here; but it was off season in October, though. Connection to rides into the city which is about 6 miles...
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Day Trips Barcelona
17 Reviews In order to get to Monserrat by public transportation, you need to take the rail line for the 30 miles-50 kilometers. There are about about 10 stops along the way for local connections. The fare is...
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Tour Options Barcelona
39 Reviews Hi everyone, me and a couple of friends did last month a biketour through the city. Cant believe how lovely it was! I also took the bus tour, which is a good way to visit the things outside of the...
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Bicycle / Motorcycle Barcelona
27 Reviews The city of Barcelona has fantastic system and networks of city bicycles where you can use those while touring the city. I think you need to register or something, but if you plan to use such, check...
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Walking Barcelona
16 Reviews Despite of Barcelona’s quite big size, it is easily explored by foot. We needed to use public transportation only to Guell park, that was worth it, as walking distance here is already quite long....
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By Boat Barcelona
12 Reviews At the Port, closest metro Drassanes L3, you will find a little cruise boat that takes you out for 1.5 hours along the coast line. One do not take this cruise unless like us you have the Barcelona...
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By Car Barcelona
16 Reviews Well they certainly stand out! :o) Black and yellow Taxis in Barcelona. The only other place I have ever seen so many taxis is Singapore. They were blue there. Anyway, check out our taxi!! Arn't we...
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Information / Sources Barcelona
22 Reviews In Barcelona it is best not to have a car and rely on the subway/bus/walking to get around. It is a very walkable city. But if you have a car and must find parking... I don't know how accurate the...
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I 've just seen a website -very interesting- where they recommend this 5 routes (bicycling):From 3 to 5 days:- La Garrotxa (volcans road)- Costra Brava- El Cap de Creus i els Aiguamolls de l'Empordà- Els ports de Beseit- El Montsant
TRAINS/BUSSES/OTHERSThrough the website below you can check possible combinations, transfers and timetables going to one town to another. Unfortunately there is no English version, but it´s easy to use and very helpful:Fill the first field, the origin, (Municipi d´origen) and the destination (Municipi de destinació) and press the red icon.All different combinations will appear.
The best way to see Catalunya is by car. You can always take a train to the main stops, but you'll miss tons and tons of great towns and stops along the way. It's relatively easy to drive in Catalunya, once you get used to the roundabouts. The most challenging part of driving was dodging the bicyclists along the narrow, winding coastal roads. If you're not comfortable driving in the mountains, have someone else drive, because the Costa Brava will definately test your skills.
We Pre-Booked our hire car through “economy car hire” on the internet, There prices are very reasonable and we had booked a 5 door Ford Fusion for 4 days at £70 including full insurance and an extra named driver.When we arrived they hadn’t a Ford Fusion available so gave us a free upgrade to a Ford Focus C Max – This was a great car, it handled well, was a diesel model and did almost 400k on 22 Euros worth of diesel !!The staff at the airport were friendly and efficient, Both pick up and handing it back were hitch free, I would recommend this company to anyone !!
If you have limited time in Barcelona I recommend you get the Barcelona Touristic Bus. You have 3 different routes to chose from with 30 stops. The buses do the circuit continuously so there is no pressure of only having limited time at each attraction. The web site below gives brilliant information in the Touristic bus.Tickets are 17euros a day & these include discounts to various restaurants. We bought ours from Sants train station, but there are booths all over the city, plus you can also buy online from the below web site.
From our accommodation at Vilanova i la Geltrú we decided to get a train to Barcelona rather than drive in to the city.The train service was cheap, effecient & very clean. The train dropped us off at the Barcelona Sants station, an ideal starting point for the Touristic bus which cruises all the sights of interest in Barcelona.
I've seen a lot of questions about how to reach Barcelona or how to go from BCN (barcelona) to other place and so on. Here you have some useful links:http://www.renfe.es : Main train company. (includes the train which goes from airport to BCN, and to main Catalunya cities as Girona, Tarragona, Lleida, Vic, Sitges, Blanes ...). http://www.fgc.net: Other train company : Trains acting as metro in BCN and also for going to Montserrat, Manresa i Igualada http://www.tmb.net: Barcelona city bus and metro informationhttp://www.bcn.es: BCN concil town web. Clicking on "BCN map", and writing down an address you'll find the place in the map and you can get the clossest train and metro stations as well as bus stops by clicking on "Transport and related services" on the right side menu.Hope this helps !!!!
There is a good offer of public transportation, but if you wanna visit the country and visit the little places, it is easier to have a car. You can stop whenever you want and whereever you want.But if you wanna go from one town to the other, I recommend public transportation. It's rather good and cheap!
There are two different train companies in Catalonia:-Renfe: Spanish public company. Within Catalonia, from Catalonia to Spain and within Spain. http://www.renfe.es/-Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC): Catalan public company. Within Catalonia. http://www.fgc.net/cat/Both websites have information in English, depending on the destination you are looking for you have to choose Renfe or FGC, although there are some destinations in common.
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Jazz Barcelona
6 Reviews and 1597 Opinions So it costs a fair bit...but the location is perfect, right in between Eixample and Las Ramblas,...
Hotel Ciutat De Girona Girona
1 Review and 247 Opinions I'm returning to this hotel shortly as I really enjoyed it. Boutique-hotel style decor with friendly...
Estival Park Salou Tarragona
1 Review and 549 Opinions best holiday i have been on, hotel beautiful!!! only back and im pricing for next year already!...
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Q: Hi, I am going to Barcelona next June and I would like to know which is the most beautiful town in Costa Brava to spend one day....
A: Well, my favourite is Tossa De Mar but I am sure others will have their favourites too. There is another post in here today regarding transport from Lloret De Mar to...
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