2024 transatlantic cruise on Celebrity ASCENT: blog #1
The flight over to Barcelona was uneventful and landed on-time in this beautiful city. I was met at the airport by a very nice taxi driver I had pre-arranged through booking.com.
He drove me to my hotel, the Barcelona Continental, on the Ramblas. It was a little disappointing. They neglected to tell those booking the road in front of the hotel was dug up and therefore you needed to be let out of the taxi across the Ramblas and had a long walk with your luggage.
It is really old and not redone, except for the bathrooms, those are nice. But I would not recommend it. I was early and they couldn’t get me checked in for a few hours, so had coffee and then met my friend Simone, also staying at the hotel.
She had checked in a couple of days earlier and had the same reaction to the hotel I did. But that didn’t stop either one of us from enjoying Barcelona in all its beauty.
