Mixed feeling about this hotel after having spent a few nights here on two different occasions. Biggest problem is the location. The neighborhood is essentially a zero, so there's nothing to walk to. From the airport, you can take the 46 bus which is pretty convenient and cheap. Go first to the Tabac kiosk outside to buy a shareable T10 ticket for 10 public transport rides in Barcelona. The cost is 10.20 euros -- less than half that of individual tickets. Get off at the hospital across the street from the hotel and walk under the underpass. Easy.

You'll need that T10 ticket to get into Barcelona on the metro. The station is very close to the hotel, across the roundabout and through a parking lot (get pointed in the right direction by the doorman). It's an easy but long ride into the heart of Barcelona. About 30 minutes to get anywhere.

The hotel itself is very ugly outside but nice and stylish inside.

As an Explorist using a lounge pass and using the 9000 point introductory promo, the upsides were greater than the location downsides. The executive lounge is nice -- open all day, with liquor -- but the food offerings can feel disappointing. If you show up before 8 am, you can eat breakfast in the main restaurant as the lounge is technically closed. I recommend this, as the breakfast restaurant is excellent. After 8, they apparently will bring you hot dishes for free to the lounge. I didn't try this. You'll want a hearty breakfast because one of the great wonders of Spain is a cheap but elaborate "menu del dia" usually eaten around 2 pm. Stuffed from that, we returned to the hotel around 7 or 8 pm and hoped to get some tapas at the lounge. Sadly, the pickings are few -- a couple of modest offerings served on spoons and some bad finger sandwiches and bar snacks -- but some nights are better than others.

Without status, I probably would not stay at this hotel and would find something more centrally located in Barcelona. That said, if you are doing a driving trip in Spain and will have a flight out the next morning, the hotel can work well for the airport (leave early, as departure processing is slow at the airport for non EU citizens). Parking is expensive (something like 22 euros) but we were successful in simply asking the front desk manager to comp it for us. There is some free street parking, but it looks a bit dodgy. BTW, if you want to pick up a rental car, you'll have to head into the city on the metro to do so or head back to the airport -- no nearby car rental offices.