What is your Priority Club status?
Platinum Royal Ambassador

Were you (or for multi-stayers are you generally) happy with the hotel/stay?
Yes

Which room did you book and which upgrade did you receive?
Booked cheapest advance rate, and was upgrade to King Executive Room.

How are the rooms?
Around 35sqm

Smart, quite elegant contemporary design (a kind of mix between Missoni and Karim Rashid's influences). Not quite sure the material will look nice for a long time though.

Bedroom with desk, flat screen television (just a few international news channels in addition to local channels). Wood floor.

Nespresso machine and kettle.

Very comfortable bed.

iPhone dock

Bathroom with large bathtub (actually tub bath with air jets...which did not work) / rainforest shower head/hand shower. Bathrobe and slippers.

Rituals cosmetics

View over the busy avenue Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes (windows perfectly soundproofed).

How is the exec. lounge?
N/A

What was good and what was bad?
Good:
- Very friendly and helpful staff (check-in could have been more smiling though
- Excellent location, 10 minutes walk from Plaça de Catalunya (bus stop to airport), Passeig de Gràcia.
- Pleasant design
- Inventive Catalan restaurant (I had a micuit foie "coca" with caramelized apple and berries, Romescu sauce monkfish with crunchy "ñora" capsicum and "calçots", white chocolate mousse with basilicum granita and passion fruit ice cream: yummy ). Breakfast is good but more basic.
- Free and fast wifi

Bad:
- Only one member of staff at check-in/check-out
- Lift is very slow

Value for $ or Priority Club Points? Would you return?
Definitely, for location, trendy design and restaurant. Finally the IHG hotel in central Barcelona we have been waited for a long time!

The hotel has a lovely courtyard with a tiny outdoor pool, deckchairs (there is also another terrace on the first floor: some rooms looking over the courtyard on the first floor have a private terrace).