Sagrada Família: Best Time to Visit (and Under-11s Free)
Quick answer If you want to visit Sagrada Familia, book in advance, if you are coming in high season, at least 1 month prior to your trip. What it costs Ticket Adult Under 30 /…
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Family travel in Spain from a Barcelona family: over ten years of trips with our two boys, and 14 years on the hotel side of the industry. Start with our Spain with kids guide to pick a region, or jump straight to Barcelona, the Costa Brava, the Balearic Islands, the Costa del Sol, Valencia, Madrid or the Basque Country. Every guide has real prices and the hotels we’d book with kids.
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CosmoCaixa Barcelona: €8, Free Under 16, and Worth a Day
CosmoCaixa Barcelona: The Best-Value Day Out We Know Here There is an Amazon rainforest inside a building in the hills above Barcelona. It has caimans in it, and piranhas, and it rains on you. Adults…
Montseny From Barcelona: A Free Day in the Mountains
Most day trips from Barcelona are a town with a ticket office. Montseny is a mountain range, ninety minutes out, that costs nothing to walk in. It’s a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve — beech and oak…
3 best free places with scenic views in Barcelona
One of the best way ever to do in a big city is to enjoy it from above, and when it comes to stunning views, Barcelona is a must see city. There are a lot…
Escape Room Barcelona: Mystery Escape, and the Cheapest Slot
Mystery Escape, a room escape experience in Barcelona. We had the last lock in front of us and about five minutes of work left. Then the hour ran out. We didn’t escape. And it was…
Lanzarote Experience Tours Review: Our Private Family Tour with Cristina
Lanzarote Experience Tours: Two Private Days with a 4-Year-Old and a Toddler Lanzarote Experience Tours gave us these two days in exchange for this review. Opinions are our own. In November 2017 we spent four…
Zaragoza with Kids: One-Day Itinerary, Pilar Tower & Where to Stay
We spent a sunny October day in Zaragoza with the boys, 24°C and blue sky. We were visiting family who live just outside the city. I also know Zaragoza from the other side: for years…
Sailing a J24 in Barcelona: What It Costs and How to Book It
Barcelona has a municipal sailing centre at Port Olímpic, and you can go out on a 7-metre keelboat from it for two hours with a skipper. It is one of the best things we’ve done…
El Masnou: The Beach We Go To Instead of Barceloneta
We live in Barcelona and we have seven beaches inside the city. Most weekends that we’re not going anywhere else, we get on a train and leave all of them behind. We go to El…
Berga Resort Review: The Best Family Camping Resort Near Barcelona
Berga Resort invited us for this stay. The opinions are our own. We stayed at Berga Resort in May 2017, when Damian was four and Marc was one. With a toddler, we needed two things…
Breakfast at Cotton House Barcelona: Worth It Without a Room
Cotton House sits on Gran Via at the Passeig de Gràcia end, in the building that was the headquarters of the Cotton Producers’ Guild. It kept the marble staircase, the parquet floors, the panelling and…
La Pedrera (Casa Milà) With Kids: Prices, Free Under 12
La Pedrera is the Gaudí building with the roof that looks like a chess set — the one covered in chimneys that have been described as veiled women and as helmeted warriors, and which children…
Poble Espanyol With Kids: Prices, Hours & Free Activities
Quick answer Our two Barcelona hotel picks Boutique pick · EixampleThe Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection – a boutique hotel in central Barcelona. Check prices Rooftop terrace · Via LaietanaH10 Cubik – by the Gothic…
Barcelona Aquarium: Prices, the Family Pack, Is It Worth It
L’Aquàrium de Barcelona sits in Port Vell, at the bottom of La Rambla, and it is the most expensive family outing in this city that isn’t a theme park. That’s not a reason to skip…
Barcelona Zoo With Kids: Prices, Playgrounds & Getting There
Quick answer How to get. The zoo is situated in the heart of the Parc de la Ciutadella, and you can get there very quick in public transport. (Metro: red line L1 – Arc de…
Platja d’Aro: Six Beaches, Free Parking, and Off-Season
Platja d’Aro is a proper Costa Brava resort town: one long central beach, a seafront of restaurants, water parks, and in August a great many people. We’ve been in winter, which almost nobody writes about,…
Park Hotel San Jorge – a hotel to impress in Costa Brava
We stayed at this hotel in winter 2016, when it was still the Silken Park Hotel San Jorge. Today it’s Park Hotel San Jorge & Spa by Escampa Hotels, a 4-star superior on the cliffs…
Atik Rooftop at H10 Cubik: Cathedral Views, Guests-Only Pool
H10 Cubik sits on Via Laietana, a few metres from Barcelona Cathedral, and on its roof there’s a bar called Atik with a heated plunge pool and a view over the Gothic Quarter. Two things…
Pineda de Mar: A Maresme Beach Day an Hour from Barcelona
Pineda de Mar is the last town of the Maresme — the stretch of coast running north out of Barcelona — and the one thing worth knowing before anything else is that the train stops…