InterContinental, the company that originated as a part of an airline in the 1940s, has now metamorphosed into one of the most famous hotel brands in the world. The company has recently launched a new strategy in face of the current global economic crisis and visitors to Spain can benefit from the fact that InterContinental has lowered the rates of their hotel in Madrid to attract more guests. The hotel is also now offering some new services such as a spa and gourmet restaurant, designed to enhance any stay in the capital of Spain.

The InterContinental hotel chain was born in 1946 when the owners of the airline Pan American Airways decided to open luxury hotels to accommodate their passengers in different parts of the world. The first hotel was opened in Brazil and they now have about 150 establishments in over 60 countries including Spain. In 1953 they opened a hotel in Madrid, which was the… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

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During the summer in Spain several Barcelona hotels offer their guests the possibility of enjoying and admiring stunning views over the city from their terraces. Cocktails, music and the wonderful 360-degree views are all part of the unique appeal of several hotels in Barcelona that are well worth a visit when on a trip to this part of Spain.

The terraces of the W Barcelona, the Barcelo Raval and The Mandarin Oriental become shrines of fun and relaxation during the summer months and are now open to the general public as well as hotel guests making them some of the most fun hotels in Spain to stay in at this time of year.

During the warm and long summer nights which surely are part of the attraction of any visit to Spain visitors can enjoy traditional tapas, cocktails or a late dinner in the outdoor spaces of these hotels.

The terrace of the Barcelo Raval, located in one… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

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Since it first opened its doors in 1919 the hotel Palace Barcelona has become a symbol of prestige not only for the Condal City but for all of Spain. Now, after an extensive restoration project, the original evocative atmosphere of Spain in the 20’s has been re-captured. Renovation works included refurbishment of  all the rooms and bathrooms and re-decoration of the corridors and other public areas.

The hall of the Palace Hotel has always been a red carpet catwalk where superstars have paraded whilst visiting Spain. Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein to mention but a few. An almost endless list of other famous people, including members of prominent European royal families and society people from all over Spain have have graced the rooms of this most luxurious of hotels in Barcelona that has just re-opened its doors with the style of a by-gone era. Some of the greatest artists in Spain even lived in the… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

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A combination of a drop in sales volume, lower hotel occupation rates and a reduction in room rates have all resulted in a decline in profitability of some 66.3 percent among hotels on the Andalusian coast of southern Spain, that’s according to a survey carried out by the Partnership for Excellence in Tourism (Exceltur).

The report also shows an increase in demand from foreign tourists wanting to visit city destinations in Andalusia and a decline in the number of foreigners going to the coastal areas of southern Spain. However, thanks to the crisis, more domestic tourists from other regions of Spain are travelling to the coast of Andalusia.

According to the survey, the increase in the number of Spanish visitors arriving on the southern “costas” of Spain is due to the quantity of special offers and discounts being promoted by both tour operators and the hotels in this part of Spain. However, the… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

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The Aqua 3 and Aqua 4 hotels in Valencia have just received the Certificate of Universal Accessibility from the Association of Standardization in Spain, AENOR. Both hotels belong to the Confortel hotel group in Spain. The addition of the award to these two hotels now brings to ten the total number of hotels in Spain belonging to Confortel that possess the distinction. Besides these two hotels in Valencia, the company has eight other hotels in Spain with accessibility certificates: Confortel Suites Madrid, Confortel Barcelona, Confortel Auditori, Confortel Almirante, Confortel Bel Art (all in Barcelona) and Confortel Puerta de Triana in Seville which obtained their certificates in 2009. Confortel Alcalá Norte in Madrid got the certificate a year earlier. The Confortel Pio XII also in Madrid became, in 2007, the first tourist establishment in Spain to receive the Certificate of Universal Accessibility from AENOR.

The granting of the Certificate of Universal Accessibility by Aenor guarantees to any person, with or without… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

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