Aeroport El Prat (BCN):Approximate driving time from Barcelona's international airport is 20 minutes and distance is 15 kilometers (9 miles).

Local trains, the express Aerob?ervice and taxis are available for transfer from the airport to the city center. Trains and buses stop at Pla?d'Espanya and central Pla?de Catalunya, from where you can take the Metro or taxi to the hotel.

The Metro and Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (FCG) train network can get you around much of central Barcelona within 20 minutes. The nearest Metro stop to the hotel is Les Corts. There is also an extensive bus network. The hotel can order taxis on request.

Driving directions from Barcelona Airport: Take the highway to Barcelona Center. Follow signs for Diagonol St where you will see the Corte Ingles (famous shopping centre). Turn right after the Corte Ingles and the hotel is down this street.

This hotel has 105 guestrooms, all of which constitute self-contained apartments with bedroom and lounge area, bathroom and kitchenette. Grey, red-speckled carpet, white walls and simple pale timber furniture are common features. Prints of bright rural scenes hang over the beds and similar prints grace the rest of the apartment.

Restaurant Atenea Barcelona - A generous buffet breakfast is laid on at the back of the bright restaurant, with its polished dark hardwood floor, sloping ceiling, gleaming halogen lights and blue tiled walls. Down the right side runs the bar. During the day it offers lights snacks, sandwiches, flautas (thin filled baguettes) and a light Mediterranean cuisine.

Amenity highlights: On the first floor the hotel offers a series of six conference rooms that can be opened out to connect with one another. In the basement a large salon is used for everything from wedding banquets to business events. Hotel guests can enjoy an extensive complimentary buffet breakfast in the ground floor restaurant, or send an email from the computer near the reception.

Insider tip: Camp Nou, home stadium to FC Barcelona, one of Spain's top football (soccer) clubs and eternal rival of Madrid's champions, Real Madrid, is 1 kilometer from the hotel. The stadium can hold up to 120,000 spectators but it can be hard to obtain tickets for big matches like the Madrid-Barcelona derby. The next best thing is to visit the stadium's museum, which is full of soccer memorabilia.