Barça will never be a city you can get to grips with over a long weekend. So why not loosen those pants, sign up for a Catalan class, get cosy with the locals, and treat yourself to an extended stay?
You’ll feel utterly en casa with one of El Palauet’s 2-bed loft-style suites, each as luxuriously appointed as the next – the Principal Tibidabo has stained-glass windows with views of the Convent of Pompeii and Tibidabo Mountain – all are white-washed with neoclassical high ceilings and design-y touches from Starck, Platner and Jacobsen.
EP also excels in the tech department with nippy WiFi, iPod dock, music library, home cinema, a touch screen to control heating, aircon and mood lighting, a fully-equipped kitchen, and two swish bathrooms per suite with Japanese toilets to keep that tush toasty. They’ll even assign you a personal assistant to organise a chef, in-room spa treatments and babysitters. Make yourself at home, Javier.
Passeig de Gràcia, 113, Gràcia, Barcelona. +34 93 218 0050, eplivingbarcelona.com
