Olivia Plaza Hotel

The Olivia hotel and its staff are awesome! My sister and I came April 2015, to Barcelona to as special celebration and to realize a dream of our beloved, CJM who left us too soon.
The Olivia Hotel staff was professional, warm and welcoming.

Evento en este céntrico Hotel para la presentación de un producto informático.
Lo poco que pude ver de este Hotel no me impresionó. La sala de presentación pequeña y el catering normalito aunque si tengo que destacar que el jamón que dieron era de 10.
El personal de servicio del Hotel muy amable y atento.
Creo que lo mejor del Hotel es su céntrica ubicación, no puedo valorar mucho más.

Excellent food and great service. Lunch was about 22 euro for a three course meal (with an amazing salad starter) and unlimited wine or champagne. Service was great in a great outdoor space.
I felt strange eating in the hotel while visiting Barcelona but the flood was exceptional. Service at this location has been consistently great. Would recommend staying here and grabbing food as well.

Amazing hotel/​location, we stayed at she 10^th floor city view, it was worth the upgrade, waking up everyday with the view was unbelievable. The staff was super helpful and friendly. The rain shower was awesome! Best location walkable to every attraction! Highly recommend!

Sehr modern und schick eingerichtet. Das Hotel liegt sehr zentral. Man kommt überall zu Fuß hin oder mit der öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln. Bin sehr zufrieden. Würde jede Zeit wieder hinfahren.

After a two hour delay out of JFK, a tough time sleeping on the flight and the disorientation of wearing my glasses instead of contacts, it was with stunted senses that I entered the Olivia Plaza Hotel on a chilly, rainy Saturday morning.
The dull greys of the day were an anomaly for the week ahead. At the moment I was tired, hungry and anxious to check in.
The front desk clerk informed us that our room wasn’t ready just yet but would be in about 45 minutes. Finding a couch in the waiting area to collapse on, I discovered that lunch would be served in about 10 minutes.
And, wouldn’t you know it, 10 minutes later a waitress motioned us towards a table for two and my first non-​airline meal was about to commence.
I was just happy to have bread, seltzer water and fried calamari to fuel the reactor.
The lobby and hotel in general is designed in a modern style. Not quite the Modernisme of Gaudi, more the modernism of Ikea.
Our room was on the 10^th floor and had an absolutely spectacular view of the Plaza Catalunya, the heart of Barcelona. Yes, it was a view altered by the rain but vastly superior (and surprising) to the one at home.
Electricity is turned on by inserting the keycard for the room. Lighting for night time reading was a bit bright but overall not a problem. A flat screen TV on the wall carried a wide range of stations as I discovered the joys of Jersey Shore dubbed into Spanish. I also discovered the local advertisements for ‘sexo’ starting at 11:45pm that offered soft porn titillation without the typical hotel rental fees.
Entertainment, check. What about the facilities?
Clean, linear, brown/​black/​white/​red color theme, with a bathroom extremely close to the bedroom. In fact, as noted by the previous reviewer, you’ll get to hear everything going on in the bathroom, unless you pump up the volume on the Catalan or Spanish TV show of your choice. The shower offers a chance of handheld or direct from ceiling water and there’s a fairly basic supply of soaps and toiletries available upon arrival.
Housekeeping was efficient and respected the sanctity of the Do Not Disturb sign. We were pleasantly surprised by a tray of fresh fruits on the second day of our stay along with a personalized welcome card.
You can book tours directly at the front desk. Almost any tour will leave somewhere in the Plaza Catalunya and you are already in the heart of it.
The morning of checking out, the front desk was able to call us a cab without any delay and have the bill settled in a quick and efficient manner.
Be warned that the elevators are small. While six people in theory can fit, it’s uncomfortable with any number greater than three. There’s an Internet/​TV level where you can use two PC’s. However, there isn’t any printer hooked up so any document you need printed has to be emailed to the front desk. Inefficient, yes.
Wifi is free and abundant but does time out after periods of unuse so you will need to commit the credentials to memory.
Despite these minor inconveniences, the hotel still rates a 4 and that 4 is very much influenced by the location. You are minutes from Los Ramblas, Barri Gotic, Eixample, metros, buses and… Hard Rock Café! (in case you miss good ol’ US of A cuisine. We didn’t.)
For a quick breakfast we’d stop by next door to the Farggi café and have a pastry.
After a night of exploring Barcelona, being offered Estrella Damm beer on the street, ‘charlie’ and seeing dancing cutouts of Homer Simpson, the Olivia was a quiet sanctuary high above it all. We will return!

This place is super modern which I hate. Despite the décor the staff is really friendly and helpful. The place seems clean an fairly well maintained. They have 3 elevators that only fit 4 ppl max, 2 w luggage, it’s pretty annoying. Food at Breakfast buffet is right on, eggs, bacon, salmon, pastries, donuts filled w nutella omg. Room is nice, bed is comfy, bathroom is one of those open ones which I can’t stand, toilet is in a stall, which allows everyone in the room to hear u handle business and no exhaust fans, maybe it’s just us uptight Americans. Free wifi is a plus yet it disconnects after a period on non use. Hotel location is great, in the middle of everything. Stay away from restaurants on main streets as most are tourist traps w crap food and severely overpriced. Journey down side streets and look for most crowded spots off the main streets. Overall we had a good time and w exception of hotel design and stupid bathroom setup, the hotel was great.

nettes hotel. service auch ganz ok. ich war happy mit dem aufenthalt und man kann es gut empfehlen

Designhotel mitten im Leben von Barcelona! Der Plaça Catalunya liegt am nördlichen Ende der La Rambla –eine über einen Kilometer lange Promenade, die am Hafen beginnt und sich eben bis hierher erstreckt.
Von diesem Platz aus lässt sich Barcelona perfekt erkunden! Ob man das angrenzende Barrio Gótico erkunden möchte oder was auch immer. Per pedes, mit der Metro oder wie auch immervon hier aus ist die Anbindung perfekt!
Das Hotel überzeugt durchweg! Gute, saubere Zimmer! Wirklich gute Bäder! Durchweg tolles Design! Gutes Frühstück, guter Service!
Keine Diskussion: 5 Sterne!

Hotel avec un emplacement idéal face à la place Catalunya et juste à coté de la rambla. Nous avions reservé une chambre avec Booking et nous avons eu une suite avec un lit kingsize, un salon et une grande salle de bain avec vu sur la place tout ca pour le prix d’une chambre“normal «on va pas se plaindre. L’acceuil est digne d’un grand hotel avec portier et bagagiste. Le petit déjeuner est cher pour ce qui est propsé, je conseil de manger à l’exterieur il y a de trés bon petit déjeuner servi a moindre prix (voir sur le guide du routard). Pour les séjours de courte de durée c’est l’idéal vous etes en plein centre de Barcelone et de plus il y a la navette de l’aéroport qui vous dépose juste devant. Le personnel parle surtout l’anglais et un peu le Francais. Nous avons passé un trés bon séjour à Barcelone.

El hotel de 4 estrellas más céntrico de Barcelona. Tiene un jardín interior con vistas a Santa Anna que en una maravilla, donde puedes tomar unas copas para desconectar del bullicio del centro de la ciudad, y un restaurante que es una delicia.

This Barcelona hotel is very modern and situated in an enviable position. Is the center of Barcelona., Rooms and service were perfect. I do not have one suggestion. But I have to highlight their restaurant. We were excited about their cuisine. Every day we had a lot of fish and meat. Fresh vegetables and fruits. We were really happy. Moreover, the hotel is situated in an enviable position and you can see the many sights. I was really happy. The hotel is on a European level.

Perfectly located on the Place de Catalunya, the Olivia Plaza has a deceptively small frontage which conceals a much bigger hotel inside. It’s gloriously modern, so much so it has those bathrooms where the water goes everywhere even if you’re really careful, which of course, I always am. The free wifi is also reasonably unreliable, although they do have computers you can use too. But these are small gripes, and I will still give it 5 stars for style.

Ein wunderschönes Designerhotel, für die dies mögen, im Herzen von Barcelona. Direkt an der Rambla umd am Plaça de Catalunya gelegen. Zentraler geht es nicht. Der Airport Bus vom Flughafen Barcelona, hält 50 Meter entfernt. Trotz der zentralen Lage sehr ruhig. Von der Dachterasse hat man einen super Blick über die Dächer der Stadt.