Derby

The hotel has superb facilities for the business traveller and is amongst the best-equipped hotels for business guests in the region.

The Derby Barcelona is a classic city hotel and, like all the hotels in the Derby Hotels Collection, it boasts an impressive art collection, including lithographs by Miró, Guinovart, Tàpies, Mariscal and Hernández Pizjuán. The collection offers an excellent taster of contemporary Catalan art.

Guests of the hotel can relax in the swimming pool at the Gran Derby, just 10 metres away.

The hotel has 116 totally renovated rooms, all with parquet flooring, individually-controlled air conditioning units, direct-line telephone, mini-bar, background music, a working area with free-of-charge broadband Internet access, TV with Canal Plus, satellite dish and pay-per-view channels, fax and modem hook-ups and safety deposit box.

The Times cafe is a coffee shop offering tea and coffee at any time of day, as well as lunches and dinners.

The Epsom restaurant is decorated with prints of the work of Joan Miró and provides an elegant setting for a delicious meal, a gala dinner or a private business lunch or dinner.

The Epsom bar offers a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks in a cosy environment. The Epsom is an authentic Scotch bar, with a superb range of premium scotches and whiskies. Enjoy a drink, a cocktail or some tapas in the comfortable, relaxed surroundings. The Epsom bar is the ideal place to end the day, whether you are winding down after a hard day’s work or a long day exploring this magnificent city.

Situated in the upper portion of Avinguda Diagonal, surrounded by wide attractive avenues, the Derby is the ideal base for enjoying all the prestigious shops and exclusive designer boutiques in the city’s most fashionable and chic shopping malls. The malls feature a wide range of goods and a succession of boutiques featuring items by the most prominent Spanish and international fashion designers.

The Pedralbes monastery and palace is just a short stroll away and houses some superb ceramics and examples of the decorative arts in its museums.

The Barcelona Bus Turístic (or tourist bus) is a great way for visitors to this magnificent city to experience a wonderful overview of Barcelona in a short space of time. Guests can catch the bus from the stop right next to the hotel.

The beautiful historic centre of the city is just a 15-minute walk away; through what is perhaps Barcelona’s most iconic landscape, the Eixample district.