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Barcelona Team Building Services: Your Questions Answered!

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Chatting to a friend last week, they said they’d been telling a business colleague about how they’d been looking at holding team building events in Barcelona to help boost staff morale. The colleague asked, “All sounds good fun for my staff, but as the one footing the bill, what will I get out of a team building day?” A valid question … and this was my answer…

It will develop skills in your employees they didn’t know they had. They’ll be put into one or more teams in which they’ll take on specific roles and experience different ways of working together. While they’re having fun and taking on new challenges, they will bond and learn more about how individuals contribute to team success.

Why Barcelona?

It’s a very business like area; there are plenty of hotels, lots to do leisure wise ‘after hours’ and the city is totally geared up to host team building events.

Professionals that coordinate Barcelona team building services know what is available there. Like with Conference Coordinator Spain, our people are all from commercial backgrounds and so can quickly recognise just what is needed, and then just as quickly find it. You won’t have to spend precious time on research and you’ll have access to deals you’d otherwise never realise.

What will the event consist of?

We are thinking up new ideas all the time and the wide variety of team building activities available in Barcelona ranges from traditionally run courses, to treasure hunts, orienteering, or paintballing. You can even have a day based on a TV programme such as The Apprentice.

I think that answers the question!

A Barcelona team building company such as Conference Coordinator Spain can arrange a complete package for you covering travel, accommodation, catering, meeting venues, sightseeing trips: whatever Barcelona team building services you need, consider them coordinated!

How to Find Meeting Rooms for Hire in Madrid

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There is a multitude of meeting rooms for hire in Madrid, however, finding one that exactly suits your purpose and your budget could prove a time consuming task. How to go about it? Here are a few ideas:

Use the Web

A natural place to start of course, but could it be a case of information overload? Type in the search term ‘meeting rooms Madrid’, and you’ll get about 560,000 sites listed in Google and well over 5,000 in Yahoo. Where are you going to find the time to look at even a small percentage of them? And those you do make time for will take some sifting through before you can be remotely confident about booking one.

Even then, you might have to telephone to check if all your requirements can be met. If not, you’ll have to start all over again. If they say yes, you could still turn up on the day and find things are not as expected.

So, what else could you do?

Recommendations from Colleagues and Contacts

Know anyone who has hired meeting rooms in Madrid? Trawl your contacts and make yourself a list of their recommendations. Then you can make a start on looking up their websites, calling them with your queries and comparing the results. Although probably not such a good idea if you are the sort of person who likes to keep an eye on your phone bill! And again, it’s time consuming and sometimes one person’s likes may be the very things that are your dislikes.

Visit Madrid

Expensive and time consuming maybe, however you’ll be able to see for yourself what is on offer where meeting rooms for hire are concerned. But will you be able to judge if you are getting a good deal? If the budget is tight, this option won’t be open to you anyway.

So, what to do? Time is of the essence and what you really want is someone who knows what they are doing and can negotiate on your behalf to take the entire task off your hands so you can get on with working your way through the rest of the jobs on your to do list.

Use a Business Event Organiser

The best thing to do is find yourself a professional conference coordinator who is familiar with the area and can point out Madrid’s best meeting rooms for hire. People who arrange business events for a living can be trusted to deliver every time, or they wouldn’t stay in business very long. They also have real negotiating power when it comes to getting you the best rates in the local hotels or business centres. Having someone else make all the arrangements while you get on with work you would otherwise have to neglect means you won’t come back to an enormous backlog.

Letting a professional find your meeting room for hire in Madrid saves you time and money and makes good business sense.

A Guide to Top Business Hotels in Barcelona

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It is a recognised fact that business travellers have different needs from holidaymakers and hotel managers around the world know that delivering what this section of their customer base needs makes good business sense.

Top Barcelona Business Hotel

Some of the best business hotels in Barcelona do it particularly well, offering everything required for the business event or meeting, plus options for relaxing when it is over. Most offer valet parking, a concierge service and an express check in and out for business clientele.

Business Services

Most suites and rooms in Barcelona business hotels offer high speed wireless internet access, telephone and fax, plus 24 hour room service and a seating area for informal meetings.

Many Barcelona hotels also have business centres offering these and other facilities such as printing, photocopying and scanning. They all have a number of meeting rooms of various sizes, secretarial services and of course, delicious a la carte cuisine for banquets that won’t fail to impress your guests.

Business Packages

Some top business hotels offer specific packages to attract customers with different priorities. The Hotel Rey Juan Carlos, centrally located in Les Corts, has conference facilities with 291 rooms and an auditorium that seats over 2,000. It also has small, luxury meeting rooms and offers a ‘Green Meetings’ package where the focus is on energy efficiency and recycling. With a minimum of ten people, you can also book an outdoor meeting space in the hotel’s beautiful gardens.

Further from the centre, in Gracia, the unusual Casa Fuster GL Monumento, with 96 rooms, is part of the World Heritage Site celebrating the work of modernist architect Lluis Domènech I Montaner. Certainly somewhere to go if a memorable, off the beaten path experience is desired.

Seaside Business

If you prefer a sea view, you could choose the H10 Marina Barcelona, which has 200 rooms with panoramic views. Or at the end of La Ramblas in Ciutat Vella, the 291 rooms of the Eurostars Grand Marina Hotel GL overlook the sea and the port.

Après Business

After hours, you can choose to relax in the hotel’s indoor or outdoor pool if it has one, and many do, perhaps high on a rooftop with a bar and terrace restaurant; or work out in the fitness centre, take a massage or a spa treatment.

Help with Choosing a Top Business Hotel in Barcelona

These are just a few of the top business hotels in Barcelona. To find the one most suited to you, at the best possible rate, use a professional conference coordinator who knows the area intimately, and has well developed working relationships with booking clerks and hotel managers.