Hotels for Your Stay in Spain

Our wedding will be taking place on September 16th in a town about 30 minutes outside of Barcelona called Caldes de Montbui.

We know many of you will be traveling from far and staying in Spain a few extra days before the wedding, after, or both.

In that case, we recommend spending 2 nights in Caldes de Montbui and the rest of your time in Barcelona City.

Hotel During the Wedding

The company that runs our wedding venue also owns a hotel nearby, Termes Victoria, and we recommend that you stay there on the night of September 15th and 16th.

The transport it's going to leave from this hotel around 5pm to the venue and come back there after the party around 3 or 4am.

Check out the Hotel Termes Victoria!

Rates booking through us:

Room 2 people: 60€
Room 1 person: 50€
- Executive Room: 10€ extra (limited rooms)

There is optional breakfast from 8:30am to 11am price 11€/day (think that the day after the wedding you may be sleeping during that time )

To benefit from these rates DO NOT make the reservation online, send us an email to andreaynicky@gmail.com with all the information about your booking and we'll manage it for you!

Hotel before/after the Wedding

If you plan on arriving to Barcelona earlier that week we recommend you to stay in Barcelona city. Andrea and Nicky are going to be in Andrea's neighborhood, it's called Les Corts. If you want to be close to there and hang out with the family here are the hotels we recommend to stay at:

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*If you're planning on renting a car make sure the hotel has parking! It's really hard to park on the city.

If you prefer to stay downtown there are a lot of options such as:

Dinners to be all together!

Wednesday, 14th at 8pm, we'll be having dinner at the restaurant Taller de Tapas it's a great tapas place and c'mon you're in Barcelona you have to have tapas in a non turistic place! haha

If you want to join us [click here] so we can count with you when we make the reservation!

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Thursday, 15th at 8pm, let's have dinner at the restaurant of the hotel Termes Victoria where you'd have great traditional food! The most of you're going to be staying there already that night.

Friday, 16th at 6pm THE WEDDING at EL MAS DE CAN RIERA! We hope that you really enjoy the food!! :) There'll be standing appetizers and following that we'll get to the dining room where it's going to be serve a first course, second, pre-dessert and dessert! So get ready and don't eat to much that day!!

Saturday, 17th at 9pm, we can continue celebrating at one of our favorite restaurants in downtown Barcelona... "Melic del Gòtic" the address is: Carrer de Montsió, 7. If you like meat cooked on the fire you should join for sure! (There're salads and pasta too)

If you want to join us [click here] so we can count with you when we make the reservation!

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Sunday, 18th Come to spend the day with us! Join us on a relaxing beach/swimming pool day and amazing real tapas lunch on the beach at Francàs! Francàs is where Andrea's family has a beach house, it's is 1h outside of the city but once you'll be there you we have our private swimming pool and the beach 5 min walking from the house!

Plan on arrive there between 11-12pm and you'll have cool beer, whine and soft drinks waiting for you! Lunch is going to be around 2.30pm (yes! lunch at Spanish time) at the Chiringuito. After that you'll be able to keep relaxing for the rest of the day.

Chiringuito is what we call the small restaurants that are literally on the beach! They're there only during summer time and they take them a part during the winter season. It's a completely informal day and place for lunch! (we do recommend to bring some light clothes to put on your swim suit as we eat) So you just need:

Swim suit
Flip flops
Any kind of towel (we have some extras but not enough for everybody)
Some light clothes to wear during the lunch time.
And the last but the most important one.... YOURSELF and ready to have a great time!

Let us know if you're planning on coming [here]! If you don't come that's what you'll be missing!

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How to get there:

By train:

If you're downtown, take the train in Plaça Catalunya to Sants Estació. Any train that goes in that direction stops at Sants Estació and it takes around 5min. Once you get there you need to follow the signs like you were leaving and you'll have to use the same ticket that you use to get in the first train to get out so DO NOT THROUGH IT AWAY! You can use the normal subway ticket to go from one station to the other.

If you're staying at the Hotel Gran Princesa Sofia, you can take the subway green line L3 direction (direction Trinitat Nova) in Maria Cristina and go out at Sants Estació (it's only 3 stops)

If you're staying at the Hotel NH Barcelona Stadium, you can take the subway green line L3 (direction Trinitat Nova) in Les Corts and go out at Sants Estació (it's only 2 stops)

If you're staying at the Hotel Madanis, you can take the subway blue line L5 in Collblanc (direction Vall d'Hebron) and go out at Sants Estació (it's only 3 stops)

You always can take a taxi to go from wherever you are to Sants Estació.

In Sants Estació: Buy the ticket in Rodalies Machines to Sant Vicenç de Calders, it should cost around $7 one way. Sant Vicenç is the last stop so is no way that you'll miss it! Check on the screens to see which line you have to go (it use to be line 7 but it may change). There're trains leaving every 30min. Make sure you take the cost line (in the screens they say the stops and one of the stops should be Sitges) if not you'll take 30h more to get there (it's not the end of the world though!) Since this point is when it takes 1h to get there! So leave your hotel with time!

If you plan on taking the train let us know [here] or by email (andreaynicky@gmail.com) or some other way, so we'll come to pick you up with enough cars! We'll plan on being at the station picking people up at: 11am, 11.30am and 12pm.

    - By Car:

If you have a Gps you can put in this address: Carrer Pablo Picasso, 28 43880 Francàs, Tarragona, Spain.

If not here you have the link to google maps:

50min drive C-32 toll roud

60min drive C-32 beautiful view curves road

When you'll be arriving if you see this you're in the right place!

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After all those meals if you still in Barcelona and you want to keep hanging out with us just let us know and we have many other things and places to go!!!

If you'd be interest on going to the salon on Friday before the wedding let us know and we'll help you to figure that out!

Transport

Once you get to Barcelona Airport (El Prat) you can get to the city by diferent kind of trasnport. You can check the different options here.

Aerobus

If you're going to be in downtown area, we recommend to use it.

Taxi

You can take a Taxi just outside of the Airport. The price it'll change depending on your destination point and sometimes they can charge you a small fee for the luggage, anyway they'll always use the metter.

Approximate rate from Airport to Les Corts would be around 30€ (including luggage) and it takes between 10min to 25min depending on traffic.

Subway

For those who are going to stay in Les Corts and don't want to pay for a taxi... we have good news! The L9 sud line is working! It's a subway line that connects the airport with Andrea's neighborhood!

If you're staying at the Hotel Madanis your stop would be Collblanc. If you're staying in Gran Hotel Princesa Sofia your stop would be Zona Universitària where you can change to the green line for one more stop (Palau Reial) or go to the street walk the rest of the way to the hotel(it's around 15min walk). That takes around 1h from the airport to the hotel.

This is a subway line map of the hole city:

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Rent a Car

Rent a car in Spain it's really affordable, you can rent a car from the airport since 12€/day. For those who plan on renting a car and have it already to drive to Caldes de Montbui we recommend to rent the car in the airport, goldcar that's is the company we usually rent from. In this case just make sure that your hotel has parking, park in the streets of the city can be really challenging sometimes and depending on the area, during weekdays only the residents can park there.

If you prefer just to rent a car to go to Caldes de Montbui, the same company has another office next to the train station Sants Estació but the rates are a higher for the same services.

Remember that in Spain if you don't specify it all cars and rates are for manual cars, if you want an automatic one make sure you're selecting that option in your booking and remind them when you pick up the car or you may have a surprise!

If you don't have an European driving license you must have an international one. People from the USA, you just need to go to AAA and ask for the international driving license. They'll take a picture of you and it cost $15.

We do recommend to drive to Caldes de Montui, so let us know [here] if you plan on renting a car and if you plan on drive with somebody else so we'll try to make sure everybody has a way to get up there! We'll offer some rides too!

General Restaurants Recommendations

Downtown area:

Sensi Tapas, is a really good non-traditional tapas restaurant. If you're planing on going there we recommend to make a reservation because it gets really full!
PaTapas, it's located at Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol, 2. It's a really good more traditional tapas place. We love to stop here for lunch or a snack when we're downtown. They have really good Patatas Bravas (really typical fried potato tapas dish) and the red peppers in provolone are amazing!
4 Cats, good food, a bit more fancy but really famous. In 1899, at age 17, Picasso started to frequent the place and carried out his first exhibition in the big room. Also he made the poster that was used as a title page of the menu of the house. Check out the history of this restaurant in their website before you go, it's pretty cool! They can be somewhat strict with their business-casual dress code so just don't go directly from the beach.
Informal, is a fancy and modern restaurant with really good, interesting food.
7 Portes, in general it's hard to find really good paella downtown but 7Portes is one of the few good places.
El Nacional, is a really cool place to go, even if you don't plan on eating it's really nice to go and walk around. It's an old factory that they renovated, so when you'll get in you'll find 4 specialised bars and 4 culinary areas. You chose where do you want to eat. They don't take reservations and depending on the day/time/place you chose you may have to wait in line even though they're usually pretty fast. We specially like La Taperia if you feel like eating tapas.

We recommend to avoid food on Les Rambles. It's better to go a bit more inside Barri Gòtic and around Carrer Ample in particular has a lot of the best little random restaurants that are reasonable in price and have good food!

La paradeta, is a great fresh fish restaurant. They have it out and you buy it fresh and they cook it for you. We always go to the one next to Sants Train Station which was the first one they opened, but there's another one in el Born in case it's more convinient for you.
Fàbrica Moritz, Moritz is one of the beers from Barcelona. You can visit the factory and eat there.

That's a short list of possibilities but as you may know Barcelona has great food and great drinks (wine&beer). If you like beer make sure you order Estrella Damm or Moritz, both beers are from Barcelona. After a day in the city you're going to realize that all the locals have a big jar of cool beer in front of them!