Barceló Renaciminto Tells Us Things We Wish We Could Believe

Where: Isla De La Cartuja S N, Seville, Spain, 41092

3/21/2008 at 1:22 PM
Tags: Seville Hotel Guide, Spain Hotels, Convention Center Hotels

Seville's Barceló Renacimiento bills itself as a hotel that's avant-garde and modern. (Can anything actually be those two things at once?) Pictures, however, tell a different story.

Room décor, with its cherry wood furnishings and striped wallpaper, is more traditional (read: boring) than modern. It appears the only thing one could possibly say is avant-garde about the property is its 25-room convention center. Barceló Renacimiento beats every other hotel here, given the small size and row house-like set ups of most Sevillian properties.

Another piece of misinformation is that the hotel is located on the Island of La Cartuja, a tidbit that initially drew us to check out the hotel. We had no idea Seville had an island, and as it turns out, it doesn't. (Although there must be some truth to it, given the address, but we're telling you--this hotel is not on an island.) Instead, Barceló Renacimiento is located off the Guadalquivir River, near the Great Adventure-like attraction of Isla Magica, about the only attraction in Seville this hotel is near to.

Now that's not to say Barceló Renacimiento isn't a nice hotel, and with room rates starting at about $150, it's reasonably priced. Even so, what the eff, Barceló Renacimiento? Didn't anyone ever tell you a half-truth is a whole lie?

[Photo: Jose Luiz Antunez]