The Mexiterranée restaurant
The other day it was Mexican-Japanese fusion, today it's "Mexiterranean" cuisine being cooked up by a hotel. Barcelona's Casanova Hotel, home to the Mexiterranee restaurant, is offering private gourmet food and wine tours that claim to bring together the best of Mexican, Catalan and Mediterranean ingredients. ]]>
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Le Méridien Barcelona is one of the Spanish city's more popular hotels, mostly because of its location off the hotspot entertainment boulevard of La Rambla. (Well, perhaps at least until the W Barcelona debuts later this year.)
But the hotel has not been without its problems. When Starwood, which bought the Le Méridien brand in 2005, began assimilating its Starwood Preferred Guest loyalty program to the hotel chain, members complained that their status didn't seem to hold much weight in garnering upgrades at the hotel, noting that staff frequently said suites were not available, despite such rooms capable of being booked online.
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All this talk about a room with a view. Here's a challenge: find a hotel with a view as gobsmackingly stunningly superb as that of the hotel Abat Cisneros in Montserrat, near Barcelona.
The hotel itself is a rather standard 3-star affair. Apart from a fairly cosy 16th-century stone-vaulted restaurant there's very little to say about it. But there's an awful lot to say about the view.
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