The Casa Camper hotel has been voted the best hotel in Barcelona after a report showed that it received top scores from many of its customers on the popular hotel booking sites Booking.com, TripAdvisor and Trivago. This four-star boutique Barcelona hotel with just 25 rooms located in Elisabets Street in the Raval area of the city achieved the highest score with 27.5 points out of a possible maximum of 30.

The report selected the 15 best hotels in Barcelona among the three, four and five star categories and it is based on the points given by guests who have spent at least one night in these Barcelona hotels. The scoring assessment involved, among others, aspects such as personal attention, service, comfort and value for money.

In second place comes the Hotel Monte Carlo which received a score of 27.3 points. It is also a four star hotel and has 50 rooms. This hotel… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

Tenerife continues to establish itself as a popular tourist destination for high spending European tourists. The hotel industry has just closed a great year on the Spanish island and the managers of the main top class hotels there have confirmed that luxury tourism grew by some 20 percent last year when compared to 2010, which itself also ended with a 15 percent increase over the results obtained in 2009.

This success has been put down mainly to the fact that many of the island’s five star hotels have been renovated recently and have added more value to their offering by providing luxury accompanied by exclusivity, resulting in personal attention, relaxation and privacy. Tenerife’s climate and natural beauty provide the rest.

José Fernando Cabrera, owner of Royal Garden Villas, said “luxury tourism has evolved very positively over the past two years.” In addition, new markets have emerged to join the large numbers of… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

According to the monthly Hotel Price Index (HPI) published recently by Internet travel portal Trivago, the average rate for a night across the hotels in Spain at the beginning of 2012 is now €87. That’s just one euro cheaper than at the end of last year.

Within this headline rate some cities in Spain recorded significant price fluctuations. For example, hotels in cities such as Pamplona and Santiago de Compostela have managed to raise their average price by 14 percent compared with last month. A night in a hotel in Las Palmas will now cost you around 7 percent more than in December whilst hotels in the Caceres area are now showing a decrease of some 20 percent compared to last month.

There are also many variations on price depending on which autonomous region in Spain we might be travelling to. The hotels in Galicia and Navarre, for example, have increased their… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

The Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque located on the Spanish island of Tenerife was recently voted the best hotel in Europe at the Excellence Awards held by the publisher of speciality travel magazine Condé Nast Johansens. This magazine is dedicated to covering the best luxury hotels, spas and venues world-wide.

The hotels 3,000 square meter spa, its outdoor thalassotherapy sessions, its 40 villas with private pool and butler service, its traditional Canarian decoration and architecture and its eight restaurants surely played no small part in winning the award for this Tenerife hotel. The combination of all these excellent facilities and services made the Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque Resort an easy choice for the best hotel in Europe at the Annual Awards for Excellence given by Condé Nast Johansens.

The leading, multi-media travel publisher has six travel guides, with many recommendations for hotels, spas, villas, apartments and leisure and business centres throughout the… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

The Grand Hotel Mencey has re-opened its doors in Santa Cruz de Tenerife after two years of continuous renovations. In addition to a complete remodelling of the facade, all the rooms and common areas, the main innovation of the new Iberostar Grand Hotel Mencey is its spa. The spa is more than 2,000 square meters surrounded by gardens where guests can enjoy a full thermal circuit as it is equipped with Turkish baths, cold pool, jacuzzi and a thermal pool. Guests will benefit from a 50 percent discount rate when using the spa facilities.

Rooms rates vary depending on the day of the week, but it will usually be cheaper at weekends to stay in this Tenerife hotel. For a standard room, Monday to Thursday, the average price is €130 per night. For Friday, Saturday and Sunday the rate goes down to around €105, if we book far enough in advance. There are a total… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

The average price of hotels in Spain decreased by around 9 percent in November, that’s according to the monthly THPI survey carried out recently by travel portal Trivago in Spain. Although a decline in prices is considered normal at this time of year, due to the fact that we are now firmly in what is considered the low season, nevertheless the percentage fall was higher than in October when hotel rates fell by some 6 percent across Spain.

The biggest drop in prices was among hotels in the region of La Rioja in northern Spain where prices fell by some 21 percent. This was followed by hotels in Andalusia where prices were 18% lower, then Catalonia down 15% and then the Basque country and Galicia, both down 12%. At this time of the year it looks like some of the cheapest hotel rooms in Spain can be found in the regions… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

Low cost hotel chain Travelodge has opened its latest hotel in Spain in the area of Manises in Valencia after investing €10 million on the project.

The new hotel has 116 rooms and is located near the airport of Valencia and is connected to the city centre with two lines on the city’s metro system. The hotel also has a substantial area for parking and offers its customers a self service cafeteria. According to Travelodge, within just a few days of opening, their newest hotel in Spain is already registering an occupancy rate of 90%, most of whom are British guests. All the rooms in the Travelodge Valencia Airport have air conditioning / heating, work desk, plasma TV and Internet access.

The Travelodge hotel chain aims to have 100 hotels in Spain by 2020 by making an investment of some one billion euros. The hotel group has identified Spain as the second most important… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

The Casa Fuster hotel, located on the central Paseo de Gracia thoroughfare in Barcelona, and which belongs to the Hotelescenter hotel chain in Spain, has been nominated as a finalist in the Hospitality Initiative Awards of Grand Hotel magazine in the Best Urban Hotel section. This nomination is in recognition of the high standard of the hotel facilities in general, the quality dining experiences on offer and excellent customer service. The Grand Hotel magazine awards will be announced on November 3rd.

This unique Barcelona hotel previously won this award in 2008 and continues to maintain and improve its high levels of quality and service. To give the hotel its full title, The Hotel Casa Fuster 5 * Monument Grand Deluxe, is the only Barcelona hotel to be nominated in Best Urban Hotel category of the Grand Hotel magazine awards this year. The hotel has managed to blend the prized architectural heritage of a… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

The Palace Hotel in Barcelona, which was formerly the Ritz, is currently up for sale. International property and hotel consulting firm CB Richard Ellis is handling the sale and is understood to already be in a second round of negotiations with potential investors. According to the Head of the hotel division of CB Richard Ellis, Jorge Ruiz, “we have received numerous offers from foreign investors and some from Spain with bids coming in at between €60 and €70 million”.

However, one well-known investor is currently missing from the list of international parties interested in the hotel. Lebanese investor Boutros El Koury, who last year acquired the hotel Husa Princesa and Husa Moncloa in Madrid and the hotels Miramar and La Florida in Barcelona has not yet expressed an interest in the Barcelona Palace.

The former 5 star Ritz hotel has 125 rooms and was built by Swiss hotelier César Ritz. It opened… Click to read more about hotels in Spain

Kings, presidents, prime ministers, artists and judges are among many of the guests who have stayed in hotel Los Fariones on Lanzarote over the 45 years since it opened in 1966.

Hotel Los Fariones has not only been responsible for pioneering the tourism sector in Lanzarote but has also attracted a parade of personalities from around the world to stay on the island. This Lanzarote hotel is located in the privileged area of Puerto del Carmen, between Playa Grande and Playa Chica, and boasts spectacular views over the Atlantic Ocean.

King Hussein of Jordan and King Olav (father of the present King Harald of Norway), former Prime Ministers of Spain Adolfo Suarez and Felipe Gonzalez, are just some of the well-known personalities who have stayed in Los Fariones over the years. The managing director of the hotel, Bienvenido Saavedra, remembers “a secret meeting being held at the hotel in the early eighties between… Click to read more about hotels in Spain