The bold new move is deciding to go through iStopOver to book our 8-day stay in Barcelona. I read about this organization from an Arthur Frommer’s article. iStopOver offers short term rentals of rooms or apartments in various cities throughout the world, usually for less than you can rent a simple hotel room. Various amenities are offered from maid service and meals, to no service at all. Another organization that does this same thing is Airbnb. Anyway I joined both when I first read about them and after we got home from Alaska I searched and searched narrowing down the choice and corresponded with a few of the landlords, some didn’t even bother to reply though. By today we decided to take the plunge and book a place along La Ramblas, a studio flat, 30 meters from green Metro line. Per Rick Steves Snapshot Barcelona book most everything we will want to see is along the green line. Here’s hoping it works out. The landlord has 48 hours to respond. If they don’t the charge is dropped and we are back to the drawing board! Before deciding this, we had finally decided on a simple hotel and figured the cost was worth it since they provided “buffet breakfast” and snacks all day but they had no vacancies. Do you think it will really look like this? I hope so!!!
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