Barcelona, Spain

Casa Bonay & Spa

Price per night from$169.96

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR146.40), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Hip-hip Bonay

Setting

Industrialist’s former abode

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Boutique hotel Casa Bonay & Spa calls a leafy section of central Barcelona home, and wants you to follow suit (at least for as long as your stay). Once a home to wealthy 19th-century industrialists, this renovated residence is now equal parts stylish city stay and buzzing hangout for local creatives. The home’s original garage has been replaced by emerald-green bar-slash-lounge Libertine, and up on the rooftop there’s a mini orchard and beach hut-inspired eatery. Devilishly cool café Satan’s Coffee Corner pours out single-origin coffees and serves breakfast with a twist, a bodega and tapas bar serves the finest of sipers and small plates, and a trio of boutiques sit, ready to be browsed, by the check-in desk. Settle in and repeat after the welcome mat: Mi casa es su casa.

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A drink each at Libertine; GoldSmiths will also get an in-room bottle of wine

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

65, including eight suites.

Check–Out

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Most rates usually include Continental breakfasts, but exclude the €4.90 tourist tax. Those on room only rates can get breakfast for an additional €20 per person.

Also

Some Passage rooms on the ground floor are wheelchair accessible.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout, a trio of boutiques, bikes to borrow. In rooms: a minibar, free tea and water, yoga kit, Malin+Goetz bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Most rooms have mosaic-tiled floors (terracotta on the top floor), tall ceilings and floods of natural light. Spring for a room with a terrace for private outdoor space – the Courtyard Large Terrace rooms have sunloungers, alfresco showers and a photogenic, greenery-filled entrance corridor.

Spa

Rooftop Termas Bonay is an open-air wellness space with a dry sauna, hammam, ice bath and Japanese furo. There are suggested ways to move through the different stations, and the area accommodates up to six people over 50-minute sessions; you can book out the whole terrace if you prefer some privacy. Two treatment cabins soothe with holistic massages and facials.

Packing tips

Pack your sturdiest sandals and your beachy rooftop-bar best in a vintage suitcase that would make Wes Anderson proud.

Also

There are three shops at the hotel: micro bookstore Lino, where you’ll find one-off secondhand classics and handpicked newer titles, jazzy shirtmakers Batabasta, and the Casa Bonay Shop, which is stocked with products designed exclusively for the hotel.

Pet‐friendly

Jetsetting pups can stay for €25 a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Barcelona.

Children

Welcome, and babysitting is available for €30 an hour. We think Bonay is a best for Smiths who are old enough to drink coffee and cocktails, though.

Sustainability efforts

The hotel recycles, uses eco-friendly cleaning and lights the way with energy-efficient bulbs.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Book a table on the rooftop bar’s bench or counters at sunset for a view of the glowing cityscape. In Libertine, set your sights on one of those leather sofas for leisurely drinks.

Dress Code

Dress in black and add pops of vibrant colour with snazzy earrings, a statement necklace or richly hued shoes and you’ll fit right in with the creative local crowd.

Hotel restaurant

Bodega Bonay is a stylish ode to wine. Sommelier David Amat threw himself wholeheartedly into the mission of finding the most drinkable natural wines around the world, and he's created a drinks list we'll heartily cheers to. And, there are considered small plates to soak up the alcohol too, chef Giacomo Hassan has sourced fine suppliers from as far as León (but no further) to create tapas dishes that are simple yet superb. Fill your table with lamb-ragout pasta, veal sweetbreads, artichoke tatin, harissa-spiked tuna and more, then indulge with sweet tarts afterwards. Rooftop eatery Chiringuito is inspired by Ibizan beach huts; the menu focuses on barbecue favourites in the summer and serves tapas year round. Try the grilled Iberico pork, topped with too-good barbecue sauce, or the braised aubergine. And to drink? Spanish wines and ice-cold cocktails, of course. Barista extraordinaire Marcos is meticulous, and his attention to detail shows in café Satan’s Coffee Corner on the hotel’s ground floor – with coffee this good, you’ll be humming ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ before you’ve finished your first cup. Single origin coffees and freshly baked pastries can be ordered from this vine-strung café throughout the day; it's also the force behind the hotel’s daily breakfasts. The Japanese-style breakfasts – egg flan with coffee syrup and bowls of endive kimchi rice rice and poached eggs – are particularly good. 

Hotel bar

Tapas bar Libertine is the heart of the emerald-hued communal area; it’s a favourite with locals too, and you’re likely to spot Barcelona creatives working away against a backdrop of industrial columns, oversized bronze-framed mirrors, leather sofas and rattan seating. Order ginger beer cocktails, Mediterranean wines, rich coffees and Tetere teas. DJs and live music sets liven up the evenings (take a browse of their enviable vinyl collection). Snacks and light bites are available until late, so you’ll never have to wait long for your charcoal-grilled sardine, white bean hummus or cheese board fix. There are larger plates too – Cuban-style fried eggs over rice and marinated pork sandwiches – and food can be delivered to the rooftop terrace

Last orders

Breakfast is served in Libertine from 7am to noon. Bodega Bonay is open from 1pm to 5pm for lunch and 8.30pm to midnight from Wednesday to Saturday (1pm to midnight on Sundays), and Chiringuito is open from 6.30pm to 11.30pm. Libertine’s open 24 hours.

Room service

Sandwiches, tapas plates and salads can be delivered to your door whenever you’d like, and your in-room minibar is stocked with drinks, sweets, Catalan savoury snacks and surprises.

Location

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Address
Casa Bonay & Spa
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 700
Barcelona
08010
Spain

Casa Bonay & Spa is on a leafy residential side street close to Barcelona's central Plaça de Catalunya and Passeig de Gracia.

Planes

Barcelona–El Prat Airport is 30 minutes away by car; hotel transfers can be arranged from €90 each way.

Trains

The high-speed service from Madrid will get you to Barcelona’s Sants station – four kilometres from the hotel – in under three hours. Other services from across the country and throughout the continent (including TGV trains from Paris) regularly pull into the station, too.

Automobiles

Parking’s available for €25 a night, but spaces are limited and you won’t need a car to make your way around the city.

Worth getting out of bed for

If you feel like staying in, you won’t be bored. You can lounge around Libertine bar like a local creative, browse the bijou bookshop and discover your new favourite author… Or just catch some sun while relaxing on your private terrace. Beyond the hotel, the nearby El Born neighbourhood is home to trendy bars and eateries; or, wander around vibrant, once-industrial seafront El Poblenou neighbourhood – the latter has an arty edge and is home to Barcelona’s Design Museum and Palo Alto Market – a mix of street-food vans and stalls selling fashion and homeware by independent local makers. Fancy a spot of shopping? Ditch Mango and browse the racks at The Outpost for fashion-forward pieces, or pick up bold enamel earrings at Après Ski. La Sagrada Familia is a 15-minute walk north, and Barcelona’s beaches are a 15-minute stroll southeast. Active types can practice their balancing skills on Casa Bonay paddle boards at Club Patí Vela beach club, or borrow bikes from the hotel and cycle to whimsical Park Güell.

Local restaurants

Wander over to El Poblenou for brunch at Can Dende and order fried green tomatoes and fluffy pancakes. Waffle over ordering waffle fries (you don’t need need them, but you are on holiday), and tip back mason jars filled with pink lemonade or spicy Bloody Marys. Or, snack your way through street food trucks and pop-up stalls at Van Van Market – there are sweet-filled crêpes on offer, as well as impressively stacked burgers and flaky baked goods. For seaside paellas, fresh-from-the-waves fish and crispy fried octopus, there’s boho beach shack Barraca, a bright lunch spot with Scandi-style wooden tables, seaglass-blue-and-green glasses and large picture windows that frame the views of Sant Sebastià beach. Beachfront Kaiku looks out over sandy Barceloneta beach and dishes out tempting tapas plates, including Andalusian-style fried squid with lemon, tempura sea anemones and razor shell with Iberian bacon. The sizeable seafood paellas will feed two or more saltwater-earned appetites. Book ahead for a glammed-up evening meal at ABaC; splash out on a decadent tasting menu, which include black grouper with romesco sauce, lamb chops with apricot confit and frozen cream marshmallows with green strawberries.

 

Local bars

What teeny tiny cocktail bar 33 by Santi Ortiz lacks in size, it makes up for in style and flavour. Once inside the bar’s blink-and-you’d-miss it door, you’ll be greeted with a cocktail before having a heart-to-heart with the skilled mixologist, who will craft a concoction to suit your taste. If you need a fresh angle on the Barcelona skyline, make your way to the stylish rooftop bars at Yurbban Trafalgar or Yurbban Passage for sweeping sea- and city-views with your citrusy cocktails and Spanish wines.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this boutique hotel in Spain and unpacked their hand-picked hardbacks and colourful printed shirts from Batabasta, a full account of their Spanish city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Casa Bonay & Spa in Barcelona…

Stepping up to Casa Bonay & Spa, you feel like you’re part of the neighbourhood: its sweeping staircase entrance mirrors that of the area’s other 19th-century residences, and a cool clutch of creative types lounge about in the boutique hotel’s stylish lobby. Once you venture further inside, you’ll find the characterful rooms have soaring ceilings, reclaimed mosaic-tiled floors, pillow-topped beds and views of the leafy city surrounds. Ditch your luggage, then head up to soak in the Spanish sun while lounging on the rooftop terrace, or stroll to nearby Barceloneta beach for a bracing dip in the waves. Then once evening comes, turn to the mod-Asian eatery or all-night bar-slash-lounge Libertine, where local Djs and live music play into the early morning hours. Don’t worry if you’re tired as the dickens the next morning; in-house café Satan’s Coffee Corner has you covered with rich coffees, flakey pastries and soul-restoring Japanese-style breakfasts – all served in theatrically photogenic Libertine.

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