Ally's Guesthouse is 1 14-room guesthouse located in three separate apartments in the same apartment building, run by the same owner. There are 14 rooms total - there's one apartment with 5 guestrooms and 2 shared bathrooms; another apartment with 5 guestrooms and 3 shared bathrooms; and another apartment with 4 guestrooms and 2 shared bathrooms. (The bathrooms are kept impeccably clean!) The apartments are on the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th floors of the same building. The owner, Graciela, lives in an attached annex to one of the apartments, while her son, Juan Pablo, lives in the other, and her assistant, Veronica, lives in the third one. That means in each apartment, there's always somebody on hand to help guests, do check-ins, clean, and serve breakfast. Graciela is a friendly Argentinian woman who moved to Barcelona with her family years ago. Graciela and her family are very friendly and try to make their guests feel at home. On my first visit to the guesthouse, I was treated to some traditional Catalán pastries and a cup of tea while we chatted; on my way out, I was chided in a grandmotherly way to keep an eye on my purse while walking around the city in case of pickpockets. This seems to be the typical greeting for guests too, as Graciela enjoys offering people something to eat and drink when they check in, as well as giving them visitor information -- including maps, places to visit, recommended restaurants, etc. The guestrooms themselves are simple but lovely, each decorated slightly different but all cheerful and with a different color scheme. Some of the rooms are "exterior" (facing onto the street) and some of the rooms are "interior" (facing onto an inner courtyard). The upside of an exterior room is that it has natural light and more of a view; the upside of an interior room is that it is often quieter. Each apartment has a spacious living room / breakfast room where breakfast is served, and guests are welcome to sit and relax. A continental breakfast is served each morning and includes homemade cakes and marmalade, fruit, cereal, yogurt, croissants, coffee, tea, and juice. The apartments are in the Eixample neighborhood, just a couple blocks from the Passeig de Gràcia and Gaudí's famous modernist apartment block "La Pedrera", and well-connected by metro (it is between the Verdaguer stop of the blue line and the Diagonal stop of the green line). At least one of the apartment's breakfast rooms looks out onto Joan Puig i Cadafalch's Casa de "Les Punxes" (House of Spikes).
There is also an Ally's Guesthouse II, which is listed separately on our website - this is a fourth B&B owned by Graciela, also in the same building, but which has rooms with private bathroom rather than shared bathroom.
Ally's Guesthouse
