How to get to Barcelona quickly and inexpensively? Let's consider all the best ways to get from the airport to the hotel by all types of transfers, find out the fare and little tricks that will help you save money on your vacation in Spain.
The city of Barcelona is famous for its museums, the scorching and welcoming sun, the comfortable Mediterranean climate, the historical sights that we told you about in the last article, and of course the architecture of Gaudi.
In this trip, we will tell you about the prices for travel, accommodation, which excursions you should go on, how to save on travel and, most importantly, how to get to the center of Barcelona.
Barcelona is a city in Spain, this city was founded back in 133 BC. In this city in the first centuries of our era, the bulk of the population were Jews.
Barcelona is also an industrial and commercial city, where there is a port of the Mediterranean Sea, the population of the city is about 1 million 700 thousand people and makes it the second largest population in Spain after Madrid. Most of the population professes Catholicism; for this, 209 catalytic churches have been built here.
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How to get from Girona airport to the center?
Our journey begins as usual from the airport of Girona located on the Costa Brava and 98 kilometers from the center of Barcelona.
You can get away from this airport by taxi and bus. Taxis are very expensive, we decide to take a bus to the very center - the Arc de Triomphe.
Buses run here often, so there shouldn't be any difficulties, the bus fare is 16 euros, the time on the train is an hour and a half.
As it turned out, there are two airports, if you start your journey from Barcelona airport located in the city of El Prat de Llobregat, then you can easily reach the city by train, which runs every 20 minutes, the cost of a train ride costs 7 euros.
How to get to Barcelona?
While you are driving along the wide avenues to the city center, you will have a lot of time to admire the architecture of the city, here you will see a huge number of buildings that are unique and different in their architecture.
But after some time, you will no longer notice the differences in the facades of buildings, for you they will merge into one even line.
Traveling by public transport will not be a problem for you, you buy a paper card for 10 trips, an hour of travel with such a card costs 1 euro, you can change at least how many, the main thing is not to take the same route.
Many tourists buy one card for two, with this way of travel comes out decent savings. Also tourist buses (Bus Touristic) work for tourists, such buses run along the main tourist routes of this place and you can get off at any place you like.
The fare on such a bus is 27 euros for the whole day, the bus is open from 9 am to 8 pm.
If you are a wealthy tourist, have driving experience and international driving license, then you can rent a car without any problems. All stations have a special service - Eurocar, here you can take a car that is affordable for your pocket.
For example, a Volkswagen Polo car cost us 30 euros per day, plus insurance 25 euros for one day, plus the cost of paid parking and the cost of gasoline.
There are two ways to say about the difficulty in communicating in Spain, English is poorly understood here, but you can learn everything you need in sign language. All Spanish people here are friendly, we wrote about this in the article "What you need to know about holidays in Spain", if you are going on vacation to Spain, be sure to read this article.
- For details on the ways to get to Barcelona: by plane, train, car, ferry, read the full review.
Accommodation in hotels in Barcelona, prices
Well, now you have reached the center, now you should think about hotels in the city of Barcelona. In terms of cost and quality of services in Barcelona, there are many hotel options for every tourist with their own wallet.
The most ordinary hotel in a 5-minute walk to the city center will cost you about 2500 - 4000 rubles per day for a double room.
Now let's consider a hotel for wealthy tourists, one of these hotels is located on the very shore of the Mediterranean Sea and it is called “W” (Double Yu). The design of this hotel is reminiscent of the famous Parus Hotel located in the UAE. A room of 80 square meters in this hotel will cost you from 1500-100000 thousand euros.
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Having laid out all our luggage in your hotel room, we go for a walk along the boulevards and streets. One of these is the noisy and cheerful Ramblas, here you will find a variety of shops, clowns with musicians, cafes and much more.
The main tourist route passes along the Ramblas, which cannot be dispensed with without buying a magnet as a souvenir.
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Walking excursions
Walking along the Ramblas, be sure to visit the most visited market in the city of Barcelona, called “Laboqueria”. This market is a tourist attraction in Barcelona and has deep centuries-old roots since its foundation.
The Bocuer market has everything from things to huge oysters and juicy fruits, here you can buy any souvenir for yourself, the main thing is to keep your wallet with you, theft thrives here.
A souvenir magnet on the market will cost you 50 cents, and a kilogram of fruit 1.50 euros. We recommend trying Iberica meat, it costs 95 euros per kilogram, we will tell you more about it and the cuisine of Spain in the next article about Barcelona.
One of the attractions of the city of Barcelona is the Gothic Quarter.It is worth visiting for connoisseurs of history, this quarter has existed for several centuries, before there was the largest fish market here.
The fish smell of this place spread a few blocks away and was a rat's paradise. If you have watched the film "The Perfume", then when you come to the Gothic Quarter, you will find yourself on the stage where the film was filmed.
If you are tired of wandering the streets, we advise you to rent a bike or segway. The cost of renting a segway is 90 euros per hour, the cost of renting a bicycle is 3-5 euros per hour.
In this or that type of transport, in any case, you will go around and see much more than you can walk. We advise you to take a bike, here you can leave it at any bicycle parking and go for a walk, then come to another nearby parking lot and take a bicycle again, this is the service here.
There are about 400 such parking lots in Barcelona, and the number of bicycles reaches 7000 pieces.
After the onset of the evening time, the city transforms into a “gloomy city”, at night it becomes unsafe here. The appearance of girls of easy virtue, street gangs and local drug dealers shows a shiver and a desire to hide in their hotel.
There are very few tourists on the streets at night, but still the local population treat tourists with decency.
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Well, now you know how to get to Barcelona, what excursions to go on, and in the next part of our trip, together with the website travel-picture.ru in Spain, we will tell you about Gaudi architecture, bullfighting, national holidays and how to save money on excursions subscribe ...
