Barcelona – Enjoy your stay in Barcelona.
Known for the legendary FC Barcelona or the Football Club Barcelona, locals of Barcelona are very proud of the Example's style, a neighborhood where the traffic is perfectly organized and where going nowhere is incredibly unthinkable! When organizing your trip to Barcelona, there are 3 steps that you need to go through to make sure that you are indeed making the right decision.
1). Determining the right location for your stay.
2). Selecting the kind of place suitable to your taste.
3). Getting the best at the most competitive price.
Normal shopping days in the metro are Mondays to Saturdays from nine in the morning until one thirty in the afternoon (they do have the ‘siesta’) then reopens from 4.30 pm to 8 pm. Further, there are malls that operate all day long from 10 am through 9 pm, others stay open later in some city landmarks such as the Maremagnum.
Barcelona imposes a tax which is Value Added Tax or VAT ranging from 7% up to 16% imposed to almost all products and services, but just about of the price tags you will see is already VAT inclusive.
With regard to the climate, the city basks a Mediterranean climate with warm summers, comparatively low rainfall and moderate, sunny winters. The temperature can be really hot during the day on the summer months of July and August, with temperatures of 25 to 30 degrees Celsius (or 77-86 degrees Fahrenheit), but are very relaxing and nice at night.
Its two main spoken languages are Spanish and Catalan. French (to a lesser extent) and English are also spoken citywide. Its tourist information, menus and the like are always available and written in German, French and English. Barcelona has a superb across-the board public transport network, with special ten-trip and one, two or three-day tickets valid on busses, metros and local trains. Taxicabs are plentiful and fairly priced. Free parking is very restricted in the city center and car parks are costly; thus, car rental is highly suggested when you want to go around and out of the city.
For travelers on the other hand, rest assured that accommodation is not merely confined with hotels as there are many choices in getting the best out of your budget. You can choose among holiday apartments, apart hotels, and hostels or pension houses.