Barcelona hostels, pensions, & youth hostels are many and a growing number of them have websites. Still, deciding among them can be a difficult task. There are hundreds and hundreds of places to spend a night and many are very competitive in location and price. Should you stay in a hotel, hostel, or youth-hostel? Only you can decide this, but I have listed below a complete collection (and growing as they come online) of Barcelona hostels & Barcelona youth hostels on the internet for those who are looking for merely an inexpensive and typically clean & safe place to stay.
One can read reviews and recommendations of MANY Barcelona hostels in the "Hostels & Other Lodgings" forum of our ALL SPAIN Message Board. Please utilize the SEARCH function with specific keywords in order to find previously posted reviews of any given hostel.
WHAT is a hostel/hostal? Hostels (plural), called "hostales" in Spanish & "hostals" in Catalán, are usually very quaint (small), family owned and operated hotels and can be found in some of the most historical, interesting, and active parts of the city at very good prices. Hostels in Spain should not be confused with Youth-Hostels which are called "albergues juveniles" in Spanish.
WHERE to stay? Many people prefer to stay somehwere along Las Ramblas, the main "vertical" street which runs alongside the Gothic Quarter from the Plaça de Catalunya all the way to the tower of Christopher Columbus at the beach. Some prefer to stay in the largely pedestrian, old Gothic Quarter itself while others prefer the more modern locations around the Placa Catalunya or in the Eixample district. Wherever you stay, most every place in Barcelona is accessible by their elaborate metro system.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: The below hostel links will launch A NEW browser window. If you have more than one browser window already open the hostel page you are seeking may have opened in one of those other, previously opened browser windows.