travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Astoria

Hotel Astoria travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Located at the northern end of Eixample, within walking distance to dining, a few Gaudi treasures and transportation, three blocks west of Passeig de Gracia and its prime shopping, this is a hotel built in the era of Elvis, but interiors more reflect the age of Erte.

The unassuming six-story building opens onto a lovely, classical lobby with a marble colonnade, a spiraling mahogany-trimmed staircase, and a reception desk that is as trim and tidy as the black-tie staff. Museum-quality busts an...