Guide for Barcelona Part 1: How to get to Barcelona :-D

As my stay here in Barcelona is going to end, I now want to give a few hints to those, who would like to study or live or visit Barcelona! :-) I hope it will be useful for you!

I can recommend you to start as soon as you can to plan your trip/semester/year in Barcelona because it is an expensive city, but you can avoid extra cost through good organization! To get to Barcelona you should use the airport close to Barcelona – Barcelona, El Prat. It is 30 minutes outside of Barcelona and the best way to get to the city. You can also use the airport of Girona, a city which is around two hours away from Barcelona.

I booked my flight on the internet page http://www.fluege.com/ which I can recommend to all the German speaking students, but the website http://www.fly.com/ also offers very cheap flights! It is all about searching a little and you should definitely do it! I can recommend this both sides, but there are still special offers and prices on other websites! So search for it! And do not book your flights separately! Normally it is cheaper to book the combination for getting there and return, than to book only one flight and then – later – the other. And how longer you stay, the cheaper you get the flights! Some of the companies offering a service which is called „Ticket Flex“ or something like this. It costs around 8,00 Euro and when you use this service, you can change your flight for free. I can strongly recommend it, because especially when you do not know when you exams are or if you do not know, how long excactly you want to stay, you can change the date of your flight for free.

Since you get to Barcelona, there is a cheap and very easy way to get to the center of Barcelona: the áerobus. It is a shuttle which transfers the people from the two terminals to the Plaza Catalunya and one tour costs around 5 Euros. After 30 minutes you arrive there (there are other stations like Plaza Espana) and then you can take a cab to your hostel or room (which I recommend to you if you are new to Barcelona and have a heavy suitcase!), they are right in front of the station of the bus. Of course you can also take the metro (Line 1, 3, 6, 7 and connection to the train Renfe).