Casa Camper Barcelona
Carrer Elisabets n.11, Barcelona, Spain
Neighborhood: El Raval
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There’s already a Camper shoe store on the main shopping drag of every city across Europe — it won’t be long before there’s a Camper hotel as well. Here in Barcelona’s arty El Raval district is the first of a projected chain of mid-priced boutique hotels by the Spanish-owned hipster footwear manufacturer.
Hip doesn’t have to mean precious, of course — in keeping with the Camper brand’s down-to-earth image, the Casa Camper is pared-down and unpretentious, at least as boutique hotels go. Platform beds and exposed shelving are just about all there is to these bedrooms, each painted a deep solid red or green, each with an impressively modern and clinical all-white bathroom and just one touch of decadence: the enormous and plush white towels and robes.
Perhaps the oddest feature about these rooms: they’re almost suites, but not quite. Bedrooms all line one side of the corridor, facing out back of the hotel for maximum quiet, and across the corridor from each one is a sitting room furnished with a flat-screen television, a hammock, and a balcony with a view down onto the street below. Maybe it’s just a creative solution to an architectural problem posed by this antique building, but the end result is a pleasant mingling of guests in the corridors, just the slightest hint of a sociable boarding-house atmosphere.
It’s nothing if not comfortable, but it’s not meant to be a bolt-the-door sort of luxury hideaway — a buffet breakfast in the lobby lounge and a 24-hour self-service are more than enough to get you started, and you’re hardly on your own once you’ve ventured out into El Raval. There’s some kind of restaurant at every turn, not to mention cultural attractions like Barcelona’s museum of modern art, and some of the city’s best shopping is a short Camper-shoed walk from the Casa. Or a bike ride, come to think of it — among such green measures as solar water heating and biodynamic waste-water treatment, Casa Camper comes equipped with a fleet of bicycles for hire. It’ll save wear on your soles, if nothing else.
- 25 Rooms
- Style: Cutting-Edge
- Atmosphere: Happening
- 33 Guest Reviews
- Casa Camper Barcelona
- Carrer Elisabets n.11
- Barcelona, Spain
- Neighborhood: El Raval
Hotel amenities and services
- 24 hour front desk
- 24 hour gym
- Babysitting (on request)
- Bar
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Boardroom
- Business center
- Central air conditioning
- Free wi-fi
- Garden
- Lounge
- Luggage storage
- Multi-lingual staff
- No pets allowed
- Restaurant
- Self service parking (charges apply)
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33 Guest Reviews
All reviews are from Tablet guests with verified stays.
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- Karen
- Stayed October 2012
- Rating: Excellent
What I liked:
The location, the rooms and especially the staff.
What the hotel could do better:
Nothing, had a wonderful stay!
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- Georgina
- Stayed October 2012
- Rating: Excellent
What I liked:
Guest orientation upon arrival.
Functionality of hotel and room design.
Spotlessly clean, beautiful and quiet in the bedroom.
Bikes available.
24-7 beverage and snack bar.
Great location--off but close to La Rambla.
Friendly staff and proactively helpful but non-intrusive.
Cleaning the room in the morning, drinking water and turning the beds in the afternoon.
What the hotel could do better:
They could do nothing else and still be excellent but since I'm asked and I am very picky...:. Alternative ways to get around and learn about Barcelona. For example, an offering of different tour operators from the usual touristic ones. A good local restaurant guide (although the ones they recommended were very good--Bar Lobo and Original, wondered if they had more to recommend). Either a larger bath mat or two of them because water in the shower splashes beyond the shower and gets the floor wet.
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- Maurice
- Stayed October 2012
- Rating: Excellent
What I liked:
Incredibly personal service.
What the hotel could do better:
Make it a little easier and smoother to get into the annex rooms
