Pulitzer Ultra-Chic Barcelona Luxury Hotel

Detailed Review

Hotel Pulitzer is a new hotel built right in the heart of Barcelona. Opened in June 2004, it is just 20 metres from Plaza Catalunya and close to the Ramblas and Paseo de Gracia. Built in a modern style, it offers luxurious facilities. The hotel lobby is spacious and bright, well decorated. Our elegant restaurant has its own private indoor garden. And our Bar serves a variety of snack meals and cocktails.

The hotel has 91 rooms. All of them are very comfortable and have a marble bathroom with hairdryer and a selection of toiletries, satellite/cable TV, air conditioning, central heating, minibar, safety deposit box and telephone in bath and room.

Other services are also offered to our guest, such as room service 24h, car rental, laundry service, concierge, bar/cocktail, Library (with a selection of books, journals, magazines and newspapers available to read free of charge), baby cots (on request) and a big solarium with teak floors on the top of the hotel with a city view.

Press Quotes

"Exquisitely designed four-star hotel." The Times 06

Independent Reviews

Hotel Pulitzer
By Rupert Eden

Just off Barcelona’s central Plaza Catalunya, the Pulitzer is ideally located opposite Fnac, Habitat, Café Zúrich and El Corte Inglés. Although not exactly a design hotel or quite as plush as its iconic Amsterdam namesake, this hotel oozes sophistication and can claim the prize for the best-trained staff in town. Receptionists and baristas are well groomed, speak a myriad of languages and are fiercely proud of their hotel and its superior service.

In 2004 the Roig family hired architect Roberto Terrades to enlarge their existing Hotel Regina next door. Due to the sheer scale of the project they decided to splash out on the entirely independent Pulitzer whilst preserving the ornate 1920’s facade. Terrades opened up the lobby space and back garden of the hotel to create a feeling of depth, letting in as much natural light as possible, while local interior designer Lázaro Rosa Violán opted for a retro, art deco theme.

Romboid white leather Contemporain sofas and armchairs contrast with an antique-oriental red lacquer double-cabinet rising prominently from behind the bar. The décor is both modern and antique, cool without being pretentious - Violán rescued original antique fittings from old chemists and closing stores to enhance the retro style. The overall look is minimalist modern chic, contrasting black and white furniture with monochrome modern art by artists such as Vasarely or Hernández Pijuan.

A small well-stocked library provides a quiet reading corner with books on travel, art and architecture while the swish cocktail lounge and restaurant known as “Visit” have become popular early gathering points for Barcelona’s fashion-conscious party crowd. A stylish panoramic roof terrace and downstairs outdoor patio, shaded by cinnamon-brown umbrellas, serve as Visit’s summertime spill-over, especially on “Sushi Wednesdays” when Niguiris, Sashimi and Makis are prepared and served at the bar. The lounge music seems to vary from daytime swing, evening Sinatra, Dean Martin or Dina Washington to an upbeat bossanova crescendo at night before finally winding down with after-hours chill out and blues. The hotel offers guests free entrance to a nearby Holmes Place which has a great indoor pool, health food restaurant and spa.

The rooms

Rooms mix dark shades of grey, black and brown linear fittings with white or grey marble. There are slate-tiled bathrooms complete with power showers and sporty Pulitzer-branded toiletries as well as trendy “Pulitzer” slippers and gowns. The plasma TV channels and complex “intelligent” lighting system will not detain guests for long and large, comfy double beds leave little room to wander around. Breakfast is served in the ground floor restaurant providing limited cooked options but plenty of coffee, teas, freshly squeezed fruit-juice, choice of teas, fruit and cereals plus some delicious fresh patisseries.

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• Hotel Pulitzer
  By Jamie Dunford Wood

  The Hotel Pulitzer is a well located, central hotel with great designer charm. Dark wood floors and elegant white leather chairs set the tone in the light reception rooms, with a long bar and bright restaurant lit by a central lightwell in the rear. Huge arrangements of flowers mix with oriental influences and artefacts to create a fresh, contemporary feel. Beyond the restaurant there’s a small outside terrace for lunch and dinner.
  
  The rooms The elevator takes you up past galleried rooms. There are 91 of them in the Pulitzer, nearly all, bar five superiors, at a standard size - this was converted to purpose from an office. These are not large, but highly elegant, with dark wood floors, white walls and a mix of modern graphic prints. Armchairs are tastefully piped, while the superiors have sofas. Bathrooms are in grey travertine - some rooms are shower only. Small flatscreen TVs are fixed to the wall for bedrest viewing.
  
  The verdict The Pulitzer is on a quiet street, just off Catalunya Square - so not as noisy as many Barcelona hotels. All the Bergara streetside rooms have balconies. Free internet access and complimentary tickets to Holmes Place health club make the Pulitzer Hotel a real stand-out in central Barcelona.

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• "Right on the Plaza Catalunya, this clean and contemporary luxury hotel rises above the ordinary with its excellent restaurant, Visit."