HotelChatter Flickr Group member Pine Nut dropped this photo in our pool of room 402 inside the Hotel Covadonga in Barcelona, along with this note about the hotel:

Quiet hotel. Absolutely spotless and excellent staff. Good breakfast although the coffee is awful. No bathrobe.

Now it could be the lighting but that place looks severe, cold and unwelcoming. It actually looks just like what we imagined the nun's lodging for the Super Bowl would look like.

Have your own hotel snapshots? Drop 'em in the HotelChatter Flickr Pool.]]> juliana 2008-01-29T16:54:42-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/17/21138/000 <![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/monica%20guy"><b>Monica Guy</b></a>, our own younger, blonder, more attractive but still curmudgeonly version of Andy Rooney has returned yet again. This time, she's giving us the lowdown on the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Barcelona%20Hotel%20Guide">Barcelona</a> hotel scene. Enjoy. </i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/slh_casanova.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>The hippest hotel you've never heard of in Barcelona is the 124-room Casanova, love-child of the concept designer Samir Saab. <p>Saab's a funny character. His <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/La+Pleta+Hotel+And+Spa/ian/225348"><b>La Pleta Hotel</b></a> in the Spanish Pyrenees is apparently a favourite of both the stern Spanish King Juan Carlos and the rather less stern <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/2/21/11341/5443/travel/Victoria+Beckham+Spices+up+the+Spanish+Pyrenees">Victoria Beckham</a>. So we're on tenterhooks to know what to expect in this one.<p>The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Rafaelhoteles+Casanova/ian/244678"><b>Casanova</b></a> was there before - the building's been there since the 18th century - but Saab's come in femmefatale 2007-12-17T12:30:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/13/141452/69 Monica Guy, our own younger, blonder, more attractive but still curmudgeonly version of Andy Rooney has returned yet again. This time, she's giving us the lowdown on the Barcelona hotel scene. Enjoy.

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.

MORE]]> femmefatale 2007-12-14T09:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/12/112626/86 <![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/monica%20guy"><b>Monica Guy</b></a>, our own younger, blonder, more attractive but still curmudgeonly version of Andy Rooney has returned yet again. This time, she's giving us the lowdown on the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Barcelona%20Hotel%20Guide">Barcelona</a> hotel scene. Enjoy. </i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/Gothic_quarter_pic.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.</i><p>We don't mean rubbish lovers, of course. Or people who love budgets. We don't think much of either. We mean lovers on a budget. <p> <p>Because why assume that all lovers are loaded? Ours never are. Seduction's easy when you're rich. Ask the guy in Pretty Woman. But try making love while you're counting your pennies.<p> So keep the romance and your dollars by staying at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+El+Jardi/local/1023"><b>El Jard&#237;</b></a>, the best budget hotel for lovers in Barcelona for lovers.<p> Because if all femmefatale 2007-12-13T09:30:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/11/154731/35 <![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/monica%20guy"><b>Monica Guy</b></a>, our own younger, blonder, more attractive but still curmudgeonly version of Andy Rooney has returned yet again. This time, she's giving us the lowdown on the Barcelona hotel scene. Enjoy. </i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/banysoriental.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We were going to tell you all about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Arts+Barcelona/local/934"><b>Hotel Arts</b></a>, <em>the</em> most extravagant, ridiculous, luxury hotel in Barcelona. As everyone knows.<p>But we're sorry to announce that our Barcelona hotel snoop got hit by the prices while enjoying a G&amp;T at their bar, and is currently in a critical condition in hospital. Our prayers are with her.<p> The Arts charges &#128;475 ($700) for the cheapest room with the ugliest views. Enough to knock anyone out. &#128;12,000 ($17,600) for a Royal Suite. Bet if it femmefatale 2007-12-12T09:15:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/