Gran Hotel Havana

The 145 rooms at Gran Hotel Havana cover a good range of options without ever feeling anonymous. For golf groups, the appeal is not just the style but the practicality. You are in a central location, but the rooms feel calm and well-insulated enough for a proper night's rest before an early tee time. The building's thick period walls do a good job of keeping street noise at bay, and the overall atmosphere is one of quiet comfort rather than buzzy city-hotel energy.

Standard Comfort rooms are well proportioned and finished in a classic style, with marble bathrooms, flat-screen televisions and the kind of solid, reliable comfort that a travelling golfer needs after a long day on the course. The décor is warm rather than flashy, with soft tones and period architectural details that remind you you're sleeping inside a genuinely historic building. Beds are generous and the linen quality is what you would expect from a four-star superior property. There is enough storage for a week's worth of kit, which matters more than it sounds when you are travelling with golf shoes, waterproofs and a full change of clothes for the evening.

Step up to the Atrium rooms and the experience shifts noticeably. These look out over the hotel's spectacular internal dome, a soaring architectural feature that fills the room with diffused natural light and gives the space a sense of drama you will not find in a standard city hotel. The bathrooms are generous, with proper bathtubs, and there is a calm, almost theatrical quality to the setting that makes them worth the upgrade, particularly if you are travelling as a couple and want the stay itself to feel like part of the experience.

For golfers travelling in a group or with family, the Top Havana category accommodates up to six guests across a spacious layout with two full bathrooms, making it a genuinely practical option for a society trip where keeping the group together matters. Having two bathrooms in a single unit removes the usual morning bottleneck when everyone is trying to get out for an early tee time, and the extra space means there is room to spread out properly rather than living out of a suitcase.

Rooms with private outdoor terraces on the sixth floor are another strong choice, particularly in the warmer months. The views over Gran Vía and the Eixample rooftops are hard to beat at the end of a long day on the course, and having your own outdoor space to decompress before dinner adds a layer of comfort that a standard room simply cannot match.

If you are travelling with partners or non-golfers, the broader room mix also makes it easier to match different budgets and preferences within the same booking. Our team can help you work out the right combination of room types for your group, so everyone gets what they need without the usual back-and-forth of trying to coordinate it yourself.

Food & Drink

The food and drink offering at Gran Hotel Havana is more considered than you would expect from a city-centre hotel, and it covers enough ground that you will not feel the need to leave the building on the evenings when you simply cannot face another walk.

Grand Place Restaurant is the anchor, serving fusion cuisine in a sophisticated ground-floor dining room that combines the bones of the historic building with a modern culinary sensibility. The kitchen leans on local Catalan produce and seasonal ingredients, with a menu that changes regularly and leans towards the kind of confident, unfussy cooking that Barcelona does well. Lunch service runs from 1pm to 3:30pm and dinner from 7:30pm to 10pm, which works well around a day on the course. If you are coming in from El Prat or Llavaneras and want to eat properly without venturing back out into the city, this is a reliable and genuinely enjoyable option.

Beneath the hotel's majestic original dome, Bar Cúpula is the place for a pre-dinner drink or a relaxed afternoon tapa. It is a quietly impressive space, the dome overhead giving the bar a grandeur that feels entirely in keeping with the building's heritage, and the drinks list is carefully put together rather than just functional.

The real showpiece is Pool Up, the rooftop gastrobar on the seventh floor. Open during the warmer months from spring through to autumn, it sits alongside the pool terrace with panoramic views across the Barcelona skyline, and it is the kind of spot where a single cocktail at sunset can easily stretch into a full evening. Tapas, handcrafted cocktails and a relaxed atmosphere make it the natural gathering point for the group after a round, particularly on the Thursday evenings in June and July when live DJs play from 7pm.

Leisure Facilities

Gran Hotel Havana is not a spa resort, and it does not pretend to be. Instead, it focuses on the things that matter most after a day on the course, and it does them well.

The seventh-floor rooftop terrace is the standout. The seasonal outdoor pool sits at the top of the building with panoramic views across Barcelona, and it is reserved for hotel guests, which keeps the atmosphere calm and the sunbeds accessible even during peak summer months. A solarium area and a small sauna sit alongside the pool, making it a proper recovery space after back-to-back rounds. The views from up here are genuinely spectacular, a full panorama across the Eixample grid and out towards the hills of the Serra de Collserola, with the Sagrada Família rising above the rooftops to the north.

The 24-hour fitness centre covers the essentials, with treadmills, stationary bikes and elliptical machines available at any hour. That suits golfers who want to warm up before heading out or stretch down properly after a long walk on a hilly course like Llavaneras. For deeper recovery, in-room massage treatments can be arranged in advance, a useful option if you are carrying any tightness through the back or hips after a full day on the course.

The hotel also has four function rooms with full audio-visual equipment, which makes it a practical choice for society organisers who want to run a dinner, a prize-giving or a pre-trip briefing without leaving the building. It is a detail that takes the pressure off the organiser and keeps the group together when it matters.