Gay Travel Deals to Barcelona
The main gay area in Barcelona is called L'Eixample or Gayxample, but let's start at the beginning. The beginning being the street everyone first heads for when they arrive in Barcelona - Las Ramblas. This street runs from the port, to the center of town, stopping just a few blocks short of the gay village and is famous for Barcelona's best street performers. It's a constant highway of people walking up and down it to see it's many visual delights. When the sun sets is when Barcelona really comes to life. After a hot day, the boys come out to play! Barcelona's gay scene is lively and stylish but remember in Spain you don't go out to eat until 10pm, the bars don't get going until midnight and the discos don't even open until 3am, so get some sleep in before you go out because you will be out all night drooling over those gorgeous Catalonian boys.
The first thing that is going to hit you when you arrive in Barcelona is the beautiful architecture all around you. Then as you start cruising around, the next thing that is going to knock you off your feet is that those amazing Gaudí creations you've seen so much of in photos are standing.......actually I'm not going to tell you where they stand because it will spoil the surprise, but you will be surprised where they are. You'll know what I'm babbling on about when you see for yourself.
Next you'll be pleasantly surprised at just how helpful and friendly the people are for a city of it's size. Whatever your preconceptions are of the Catalonians, they'll soon melt away as they do their best to make you welcome in their stunningly beautiful city.
As we said before, the gay area is called L'Eixample or nick named GayEixample and is north-west of the center of town within walking distance but can also be reached by Metro from either the Universitat or Urgell stations. If you get off at Urgell take the Villarroel exit. The gay scene is lively and there's plenty of variety. Everything you'd expect from a major city's gay scene but with the added bonus of bronzed Spanish boys all over the place. Eixample is pronounced eye-sham-play.
To top it all off, you have Sitges just down the road which you must check out as well. It's an easy 35 minute train ride away from Sants train station, or better yet, from Passeig de Gracia station near the gay village.
The best way to see all of the major sites in Barcelona is to take the Tourist Bus (Bus Turistic) from Plaza Catalunya in the center of Barcelona. It's just 18€ for 1 day or 22€ for 2 consecutive days. There's 44 stops along the route, and you can get off wherever you like, then hop on one of the next buses that come along. There's 3 distinct routes, and your ticket covers you for all of them. The north route, south route and Fórum route. Each stop is announced in English, and you'll find info about each one in the guide they give you. The entire tour of all 3 routes, if you don't stay at any location, lasts 5 hours.
Hot Tip: When you get to Barcelona ask for the free gay map at any gay establishment. It shows where everything is located.
Getting to Barcelona
The easisest way of travelling to Barcelona is to fly and there are flights to Barcelona from most UK airports. With that said Some people do like to take a leisurely journey to Barcelona by sailing to Bilbao from the UK and then getting the train in. We wouldn't reccomend this method though - its cheaper and quicker to fly.
Our Exclusively Gay Accomodation in Barcelona includes:
