Little Beach House Barcelona

Please note: This hotel is closed annually from mid-October to April.

First, a word about the name. Little Beach House Barcelona is set not in Barcelona proper, but a half-hour away in Garraf, a fishing village turned holiday spot. And with 17 rooms it’s really only little when compared with the urban properties that are the core of the Soho House collection. It’s a restoration of a Fifties hotel which leaves just enough of the original intact for a bit of retro atmosphere. The rest is pure Soho House, which is to say easygoing, bohemian glamour — words that apply just as appropriately to the hotel as to its clientele.

For, like any Soho House property, it’s a members’ club as well as a hotel. Many of its guests, then, are weekenders from Barcelona, drawn from the rolls of the city club’s members. Of course, you’re a member, for the duration of your stay — which means you’ve got the run of the house, from the multitude of cozy lounge spaces to the seasonal semi-outdoor spa.

The rooms retain their original square footage, which isn’t enormous, by contemporary standards — but they’re uniformly comfortable, not to mention stylish in that signature Soho House manner. And for a lodging of the Little Beach House’s size, it’s impressive that there are not one but three restaurants: the indoor-outdoor Club, the beachside La Caseta, and the fairly self-explanatory Beachroof.