Hotels near Sant Ildefons Market, Cornella De Llobregat

Me and my 15 yr old daughter did a night here before flying home to the UK next morning. We had been staying at Portaventura and I had been nervous about being 2 hrs travel from the airport on the day and dependent on potentially unreliable public transport. This hotel despite the description isn’t that near to the airport - about 5 miles away and the bus we transferred to (L99) doesn’t stop that near to the hotel- good 20 mins walk with suitcases in tow. But I knew some of this before and was prepared. You need your iPhone map on to find it through a number of suburb streets. As regards the hotel, it’s no frills but the staff spoke good English and my daughter now speaks conversational Spanish too which helps. They were also all very friendly. Room normal Ibis basic but fine for overnight stay and breakfast was simple continental but again fine when it’s basically grab and go you want. Looking at the bus timetables to airport next morning they were all being cancelled or delayed so we got a taxi (there’s a rank outside hotel) instead for €22. Ate at the McDonald’s adjacent to hotel and there is also a Lidl over the road., would consider using it again in similar circumstances

I’ve been waiting to write this review ever since I got back home from Barcelona. I stayed here with my partner for a few days during the week for his birthday. Admittedly we booked this hotel via Lastminute.com as a package with flights with Ryanair and we liked the look of the hotel as it was a trusted brand (Holiday Inn) and Molins de Rei seemed like a decently good area to stay in with easy access to central Barcelona. However… The hotel’s actual location is fine, it’s beside a supermarket and a restaurant (Viena, a local chain, we didn’t go but it was popular any time we passed), and it is also a 10-15 minute walk from Molins de Rei train station which is very handy for getting the train to the city, and I’ll get back to trains and transport later in this review (please do read as I wish I knew this before I arrived!) We got room 236 and fair warning, this room wasn’t very nice. I’ll attach photos to this review but our air conditioning unit was COVERED in black mould and we obviously could not use it for air as I was worried about catching something like a chest infection! And our television had a massive crack/deep scratch right down the middle of it. Totally unusable. After that, not long after checking in, we went back down to reception with photographic evidence and the reception team were completely oblivious to the state the room was in. Ironically enough each room comes with a certificate of cleanliness guarantee, did no one notice the MOULD? We asked to swap rooms as it was totally unacceptable and we were told we had to wait until the next morning as the place was fully booked. Fine, we can sleep with the window open. Next day, we were told we wouldn’t be able to move until that evening, but thankfully the head of the housekeeping team phoned our room and told us another room was ready for us. I joked to my partner “I bet they’ve moved us to the one across the hall”… and they had. To 237. It was a bit better with no smashed TVs and a clean air con unit - BUT, there was an extra door connecting this room to the one beside it, and we could hear shouting and arguing from whoever was staying in that one so that wasn’t great. Also the light from that room would shine under the connecting door which isn’t great when trying to sleep, so we had to use a spare towel to block it out. One major thing I would ALSO like to mention is that this hotel is right next door to a nightclub called Eitwo, which we didn’t even know about until Friday night, last night as of writing this, when we were flying back early Saturday morning. This club ONLY opens on a Friday and Saturday according to the reception team, and from about midnight to 6 o’clock in the morning, there were huge groups of people just hanging around on the road directly outside the hotel, and they were screaming and shouting and throwing things, for HOURS. We didn’t get much sleep, so if you’re planning to stay here over the weekend, please keep that in mind. So, going back to t

The staffs were really friendly! There is a mall just behind the hotel so you can go to the supermarket and buy something. I personally like the atmosphere around the hotel too, it’s so peaceful (like the picture I attached). However, you have to take the bus from airport for about 20~30min and costs €2.40 (one way), which I find a little troublesome if you leave your luggage at the hotel and come take it back again. This means that you have to take an hour journey and pay €4.80 just to get back your stuffs, so I recommend to leave your baggage at the airport if you don’t want to waste time. BUT, be careful because when I was there, which is on Sep2023, the baggage storage was closed, so make sure to check beforehand if they are open.

The hotel is very good, very new and modern. It is also very clean. It is a bit far from the center. Regarding the staff, they were very little proactive. I checked in at 9:00 p.m. and went up to the room, when I went down to dinner at 10:05 p.m. they told me that the restaurant closes at 10:00 p.m. I think it's normal to report that, especially when you arrive at that time. In addition, they did not give me options of where to go for dinner or anything. Just ”closes at 10:00 pm” period.

We stayed 2 days during the Spanish tour. Barcelona holds about 35 Euros with a remote taxi to the centre. Their rooms were beautiful and clean. The breakfast is standard for European hotels. The best thing is that Aldi is next to the market. Car park is available for those coming by car