The NYT Kinda Sorta Digs Hotel Murmuri in Barcelona
August 6, 2008 at 12:05 PM |
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This weekend, The New York Times asked, "Does Barcelona really need another understated hipster hotel?"
We don't think any place needs another hipster hotel, but since you asked about Barcelona--the epicenter of all things hip in Spain--we're gonna go ahead and say no.
But the Times answers its own question with an "apparently, yes," even though the reporter is very wishy-washy about Hotel Murmuri. She writes that despite the hotel possessing all the "requisite elements for urban hotel chic," such as a black-clad staff and an in-house Asian restaurant, "the accommodations are lovely enough that the clichés don't irritate."
And how cliché they are.
From the reporter's description, it's as though we could be reading about any hipster hotel in any other place in the world:
The Murmuri subscribes to those universal rules of contemporary hotel design that say every boutique room must be dressed in rigorous neutrals and furnished with plasma screens and high thread counts. The king-size beds are nicely plush, and the overall effect, if unexciting, is soothing.
All of these things aren't bad, just--as the reporter points out--unexciting. With rooms starting at about $260, Hotel Murmuri isn't a bad deal, but we think there's more creative and similarly priced options to be had elsewhere in Barcelona--like at the Casanova, perhaps? They hired a choreographer to do their lighting, for Pete's sake.
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