We were a group of 4 in our mid to late twenties who decided we wanted to see Europe, but as we were all on a budget we saw cruising as the way to go. 3 out of the 4 of us had been on a cruise before so we were pretty experienced cruisers. This was our first time however on NCL. As we all had used Carnival previously for cruising. We sailed 9/708-9/14/08. We flew in the day before the cruise left out of the Port of Barcelona. I made reservations for Barcelona Day Tours to pick us up at the airport and take us to our hotel. This was helpful as we would've needed two taxis to get us to the hotel due to all our luggage. We were greeted by our driver who held a sign with my name on it. My husband loved that. We stayed one night at Hotel Gaudi in the Las Ramblas district in Barcelona. This is a decent hotel and in an excellent location for tourist things.

The next morning we flagged down two taxis to take us to the port. Remember many people speak little English, it helps to have the port's address written down or have the person who speaks the most Spanish do the talking. It costs us about 10 euros per taxi to get from our hotel to the port.

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