Getting your residence card in Spain can be difficult if you don't speak Spanish so if you can,…read morebring a friend with you. Since arriving in Spain, the first step is to make an appointment at the ajumente de Barcelona to get the padron document. This requires an original contract of your lease and passport or id. My boyfriend is a resident here and I'm not on the lease but they will accept it. You're allowed to check in at the earliest 10 minutes before your allotted time. Go to the second Red machine and enter your confirmation number. It will give you a ticket and then it's like a DMV - wait for your number to be called and then present your documents. Then you have to fill out an el padró municipal form which is in Catalan. They will provide you two copies of your padrón document.

Great place to take your kids. All ages. It's a library and learning center. They also have a parc…read morebehind it. Some people are friendly but I swear they are not clear in helping. I don't get it. Ugh! But anyways there is a area to study. Use the computer. There is a play area on the second floor for little kids. Books to read. A reason area. There is a information desk on the first floor. And also classes below the first floor which makes it -1 -0. I don't get it but yes. Class rooms. The Casal Infantil is on the 2nd floor you have to pay €3.20 for a day. You can leave your child and come back before 8pm.

The Cathedral of Barcelona, which is also called the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia,…read morewas built in the Gothic style from 1298 to the 15th century. It is an active church that provides masses, confessions, and other sacraments. It also provides tours for 16 euros and up (as of the time of this review). I understand that some people think that a church should be free to enter, but I also understand that many tourists are not practicing Catholics and that the church needs to bring in revenue to pay its bills. My tour guide took my husband and me to the exterior of this church and explained its architecture and history. We did not pay for an interior tour. It is a lovely church to see.

The cathedral was beautiful and the rooftop views were simply stunning. Definitely worth a visit…read morewhen visiting Barcelona.

Excellent stay, the service is top notch & the rooms are immaculately clean. The hotel is newer, in…read morea great location in the l'eixample district near the high end shopping, and far enough away from the touristy pickpocket las ramblas street (still close enough to walk there if you feel like you want to). there is a nice rooftop area where you can sit and lounge. They leave you waters in your room and will call in a masseuses if you want one. We would definitely recommend this hotel and would stay it again.

I loved this hotel - modern, clean, roomy (beautiful bathroom). The staff couldn't have been…read morenicer. And the restaurant downstairs was very good. The breakfast was outstanding but it was also nice for tapas and drinks.

My passport was either lost or stolen (all I know is that when I looked for it in Nice it was gone,…read moreand I had it in my pocket earlier that day). Given that the US Consulate in Nice is no longer in existence, and the one in Lyon was closed the week I was there, Barcelona was the next best option for me since we were flying out of Madrid. Although the US Consulate doesn't officially open until 9am, I got there at 8:30am, and would recommend that others do the same. When I got there I was 3rd in line, and they started letting us in at 8:45am.By 10:15am I had a brand new passport in my hand. YES, IN UNDER 2 HOURS I HAD MY NEW PASSPORT IN HAND. THINGS YOU SHOULD BRING WITH YOU FOR PASSPORT REPLACMENT: As stated on the Consulates web-page (https://barcelona.usconsulate.gov/citizen-services/passports/stolen.html) you should bring. -- your drivers license or an old passport -- 5 Euros in 1E and 2E coins (to operate the passport photo machine) -- a credit card (to pay the $135 fee), or enough cash (in dollars or Euros) to pay the $135 processing fee -- a filled out version IN BLACK INK of the Application for US passport (if you can't print one out and fill it out beforehand, they can give you one there, but it will probably slow you down a bit) -- a filled out version IN BLACK INK of the Statement of Loss (if you can't print one out and fill it out beforehand, they can give you one there, but it will probably slow you down a bit) -- a police report, if you have one Half of me wants to give 4 stars because: I wasn't allowed to bring my backpack, my water, my cellphone, or my Kindle in with me (security held onto that stuff for me while they directed me to another building). But, given both that their website was very informative and let me know everything that I needed to bring with me, and given that in under 2 hours I had a new passport. and dealt only with very friendly and efficient people, I think that 5 stars is well warranted.

The only thing they know how to do is passports (and apparently they do those well), and have…read moreadmitted, in writing, to a complete lack of competence for other standard services in US citizen services, so they keep trying to push passport applications for everything. Renunciation (removing US citizenship voluntarily and by request of a dual citizen) IS NOT a passport application. They've delayed a basic completed (on my side) and paid for renunciation procedure for over two years this time (8 years in total so far) because they do not know how to send it to the US for processing because its standard form is several more pages than a passport application. That's $2350 I paid, plus all the airfare, visits, documentation (completed to their specifications with appointments attended at their specified times, etc.). They have cost me well over $50,000 (I'm being kind with that number, the cumulative has exceeded 1/4 million in reality) so far in expenses due to their delays that often come with random copy paste emails with a variety of random excuses. I'm actually not rich and this is going to bury me for life. I'm being buried so someone can be lazy and feel that they can be because they have unchecked power over others.