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Time visited: July 2016 | Guests: 4 adults  | Room type: L-room (2 rooms) Review: 25 hours in Frankfurt My review is from a past stay back in July 2016 when we travelled to Germany with some friends. I booked the hotel direct from their website. Normally I would write a review soon after the stay but this design hotel was so cool I wanted to write about still. I had booked 2 L-rooms and both were very different from each other. At first I thought they had given us an M-room and an L-room but later on I realized both were actually L-rooms - just different. I really liked the decor in the rooms and public areas; bright and colorful and the cool innovations like a pair of "forgotten" Levi's jeans hanging in the room and free of charge MINI's for the guests' use. The location of the hotel is not the best for sightseeing as all the main sights of Frankfurt are pretty far if you are walking and if you spending one day in the city like we did. Then aga

Time visited: February 2018 | Guests: 2 adults, 1 infant  | Room type: King Deluxe (upgraded to King Family room)  Review: room with a view in Barcelona   It would make sense to stay at Hilton Diagonal Mar during summer because of two reasons. First; you can avoid some of the crowd because it is located outside the centre of Barcelona and second; they have a beach club, Purobeach that apparently is very popular. However our stay was in the winter and the beach club was obviously closed. I think it is closed during the whole winter from October to March. I was a bit disappointed that apart from Purobeach they don't have an indoor pool for winter season. There are two options to get to the heart of Barcelona from the hotel. You can take the L4 line metro from El Maresme / Forum station and get off at Jaume I which is right next to the Gothic Quarters. Travel time is about 20min. Other option is the H16 bus that will take you to Placa Catalunya in 45min. I used both