Hotel Arts Barcelona
Carrer de la Marina 19-21, Barcelona, Spain
Location
At Port Olimpic
On the beachfront at Port Olimpic, Barcelona, by the marina and the city beaches, around two and a half kilometres from the old city and twenty kilometres from the airport, beside Frank Gehry's Peix sculpture.
Transfer
A Barcelona transfer
Around twenty kilometres from Barcelona airport, into the Port Olimpic beachfront on the city's seafront, the boardwalk and the beaches at the door.
Villas
Around 455 rooms
Around 455 rooms and twenty-eight duplex penthouses in a forty-four-floor blue-glass-and-steel skyscraper with an exposed white-steel exoskeleton, a contemporary Catalan and Spanish art collection throughout, pink-marble baths and city or sea views.
Best For
Who it suits
Couples, business, the city-and-beach combination, the design, art and foodie crowd and families — a forty-four-floor Olympic landmark on Barcelona's only beachfront pool, with two-Michelin dining and a rooftop spa over the sea.
Board Basis
Room only
Room only or bed-and-breakfast, across five restaurants from beachfront to fine dining, led by the two-Michelin-starred Enoteca Paco Perez, with a thirty-third-floor Club Lounge.
About the Resort
The skyscraper-on-the-beach Barcelona hotel
Hotel Arts is the skyscraper-on-the-beach Barcelona hotel — a forty-four-floor Bruce Graham landmark built for the 1992 Olympics on the beachfront at Port Olimpic, a Ritz-Carlton with a contemporary Catalan and Spanish art collection running through it. Its dining is anchored by the two-Michelin-starred Enoteca Paco Perez, a forty-third-floor rooftop spa looks over the city and the sea, and two outdoor pools make it the only beachfront pool in Barcelona. Around 455 rooms and twenty-eight duplex penthouses — the top ones with a butler and a MINI Cooper — rise over the Mediterranean in a blue-glass-and-steel tower wrapped in an exposed white-steel exoskeleton. The setting is the city's seafront: the Port Olimpic boardwalk and the city beaches run from the door beside Frank Gehry's golden Peix fish, the Gothic Quarter and the market halls of La Boqueria lie a short way along, and Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Park Guell and Casa Batllo are a taxi ride across the city. It is the modern, beachfront face of Spain's cities — distinct from the historic Moorish palace of Seville.
Accommodation
Rooms & penthouses
Around 455 rooms and twenty-eight duplex penthouses rise in a forty-four-floor blue-glass-and-steel tower wrapped in an exposed white-steel exoskeleton, a contemporary Catalan and Spanish art collection throughout, with pink-marble baths and city or sea views. The top duplex penthouses add a butler and a MINI Cooper, the most striking city-and-sea rooms in Barcelona, the Mediterranean filling the windows high above the beach. The art collection runs through the public spaces, the tower a landmark on the city's skyline since the Olympics.
Entry
Deluxe Room
Sleeps two. A king with large windows and art, over the skyline.
ArtSkyline outlook
Signature
Sea-View Room
Sleeps two to three. A king with Mediterranean views, over Port Olimpic.
Sea viewsPort Olimpic outlook
Club
Club Level Room
Sleeps two. A king with 33rd-floor lounge access, over the city or sea.
Lounge accessCity/sea outlook
Penthouse
Duplex Penthouse
Sleeps two to four. A top-floor penthouse with a butler and a MINI Cooper, over the skyline and sea.
Butler & MINISkyline outlook
Food & Drink
Dining
Dining is anchored by the two-Michelin-starred Enoteca Paco Perez, joined by five restaurants running from the beachfront to fine dining and a Club Lounge on the thirty-third floor. It is serious city dining with the sea at its feet, the Michelin kitchen as much a reason to stay as the beach.
Signature
Enoteca Paco Perez
Enoteca Paco Perez, two Michelin stars.
More
Five restaurants
Five restaurants, from beachfront to fine dining.
Club
The Club Lounge
The Club Lounge, on the thirty-third floor.
Wellbeing
Rooftop spa & pools
A forty-third-floor rooftop spa brings Natura Bisse products and panoramic Barcelona and sea views and a fitness centre, joined by two outdoor pools overlooking the sea — Barcelona's only beachfront pool — set among terraced gardens. Wellness here is the view as much as the treatment, the spa high above the city and the pools at the edge of the beach.
A 43rd-floor spa
A forty-third-floor spa, with panoramic views.
Barcelona's only beach pool
Barcelona's only beach pool, two, sea-view.
Enoteca Paco Perez
Enoteca Paco Perez, two Michelin stars.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
The skyscraper, the Michelin dining and the beach define a stay — take in the forty-four-floor Olympic landmark on Barcelona's beach, dine at the two-Michelin Enoteca Paco Perez, and swim the city's only beachfront pool. The Port Olimpic boardwalk and beaches are at the door, with La Boqueria, the Gothic Quarter and Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Park Guell and Casa Batllo, and the hill of Montjuic, across the city.
The 44-floor landmark
The forty-four-floor landmark, on Barcelona's beach.
Two-Michelin Enoteca
Two-Michelin Enoteca, Paco Perez.
The 43rd-floor rooftop spa
The forty-third-floor rooftop spa, over the city and sea.
Port Olimpic & the beach
Port Olimpic and the beach, at the door.
La Boqueria & Gaudi
La Boqueria and Gaudi, across the city.
Getting There
Location & transfers
By air
To Barcelona
Around twenty kilometres from Barcelona airport.
In the city
Port Olimpic
On the beachfront at Port Olimpic, by the marina and the city beaches.
Guest Reviews
What Our Clients Say
★★★★★
“The most extraordinary place I have ever stayed. Nothing prepares you for the depth of the silence, the beauty of the reef, or the sheer generosity of the experience.”
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★★★★★
“We’ve stayed here three times now. The house reef has no equal. The stargazing was, genuinely, one of the most moving experiences of my adult life.”
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★★★★★
“I had stayed at Four Seasons, One&Only and Velaa before visiting Hotel Arts Barcelona. They are all magnificent. But this is different in a way that is hard to articulate.”
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Good to Know
Good to know
Board basis
- Room only or bed-and-breakfast.
Year-round
- Year-round, in the heart of Barcelona.
Made for couples
- Made for couples, business, families and foodies.
Getting there
- Around twenty kilometres from the airport.
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