WELCOME TO METROPOLITAN'S READER OFFERS! Here you'll find information about the different offers made exclusively to you by our advertisers - check back regularly because this list will keep growing. And each week, there'll be an extra-special offer sent out through our Twitter account, Facebook page and e-newsletter, so don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for those!
FINANCIAL
Spectrum IFA Group - The Spectrum IFA Group specialises in creating and providing financial planning solutions for foreign residents. Their experienced and qualified team in Barcelona can help you with all aspects of finance including, pensions and retirement planning, QROPS, currency exchange, tax planning, life and health insurance, savings and investing. They are regulated financial planners with offices in seven European countries, dedicated to providing the best advice and solution for each individual client. Spectrum provide an ongoing service, with some of their clients having been with them for 17 years.
Email or call them to arrange an FREE initial, no obligation introductory meeting when you say that you read Metropolitan.
FOOD AND DRINK
Bar 68 - Located in the heart of Raval, Bar 68 has established itself as a classic cocktail joint over the last 12 years. As one of the pioneering hotspots in the area, Bar 68 combines a great atmosphere, cool urban funk and soul sounds, and tasty cocktails, to make this an ideal location for a great night out.
Open everyday from 8pm until 3am, Metropolitan readers can get cocktails for €5.
Red Rocket - Red Rocket was opened in 2008 and has become the cradle of musicians and DJs in rock scene here in Barcelona. They offer the most authentic rock sessions with top DJj's in a friendly and authentic environment.
Tell them you read Metropolitan between 7pm and 10pm and get fantastic drink offers like €1 beers and €5 mixed drinks.
Rubi Bar - Located near the church of Santa Maria del Mar in the Born, this friendly bar has a great vibe with a fantastic playlist and prices that won't destroy you. They serve the best mojitos in town and have a selection of fun and interesting Asian tapas. Hendrick's Gin and all the rest from €5.
Open everyday from 8pm, Metropolitan readers get mojitos for €3.50
Vitali Pizza - They serve up gourmet pizzas from three locations around Barcelonan with more than 50 thin-crust, homemade options to choose from. They also have special deals such as three large pizzas for €15, and let you pay by credit card.
For you, Metropolitan readers, they are offering a very special start-of-the-week offer, with 2 for 1 on every Monday home delivery! Take advantage of this great deal: call 93 444 4737 (Eixample Esquerra), 93 303 0735 (Clot) or 93 285 4195 (Gràcia/Joanic) and say you want to get the Metropolitan Monday offer!
Messié Pizza - Messié Pizza is the new place in Gràcia that strives to be cheap and cheerful. It is the perfect venue to have a few drinks after going to the cinema or theatre or simply meeting up with friends.
In this charming Gràcia spot you will have the pleasure of sampling a great pizza with a homemade thin and crunchy base, topped with fresh ingredients from the local market. Messié Pizza offers all this at a good price and in a unique atmosphere decorated with style and great music. Home delivery is also available.
Open from 6pm everyday, Metropolitan readers can get €1 cañas of beer until 9pm!
HEALTH AND BEAUTY
The Vital Touch - one of Barcelona's most popular massage clinics, which is located in the centre of the city, offers a range of services including deep tissue and hot stone massages.
And you can enjoy a great 20 percent discount, which is exclusive to Metropolitan readers. For more information, ring 659 995 657, mail nunu@thevitaltouch.com or visit www.tvtbarcelona.com; and don't forget to mention Metropolitan!
BCN Cuts - Directly from Boston to Gràcia comes BCN Cuts Barber Shop to offer you time to relax surrounded in a welcoming environment. With a drink in hand and jazz music playing in the background, you can have a hair cut or try their hot lather shave the classic way. BCN Cuts is a traditional barber shop in a contemporary atmosphere. You will keep coming back for the excellent service.
Open from 10am to 8pm Mon-Sat, Metropolitan readers can enjoy a hair cut and hot shave for just €27.
Kinki - Kinki peluqueros is an international hairstyling group from Holland with over 40 salons in their home country. They put their heart and soul into cutting and colouring the most beautiful hairstyles, from the latest trends to classic cuts. English, Spanish, Dutch, German and French speaking.
If you bring a friend for a full treatment and say you read Metropolitan, they will give you both a 15% discount and a free glass of cava. Another Metropolitan offer will get you 10% off any other treatment.
The Vital Touch - The Vital Touch massage clinic helps you relax, energise, re-balance and improve your health and lifestyle with a therapeutic, holistic, full-body massage. It helps relieve tension, reduces stress, detoxifies and boosts your self-esteem. They have a central Barcelona location where English, Swedish and Spanish is spoken.
If you say you read Metropolitan, receive 10% off!
Ambrosia - Treat yourself to a moment of luxury for your body, mind and spirit. At Ambrosia Spa, nature and science blend harmoniously to assure the finest skin care, massage and spa treatments. They use the best oils and lotions and incorporate aromatherapy into every session, they use the finest ingredients to exfoliate and soften the skin. You can also try their Depiflax wax to ensure gentle and effective hair removal. Their authentic Japanese treatments done by expert, Yoshitaka Nagata.
If you say you read Metropolitan, receive a special offer on couples' massages of €100 per hour.
Hestía - Hestía is a centre of psychology that has become a reference in the city of Barcelona, due to its innovative and international character. Hestía promotes health, personal development and wellbeing within all areas of life, such as personal, professional, academic and social. Hestía's professional team of psychologists and psychiatrists has come together in order to provide the best possible services in accordance to the specific needs of each client in a variety of languages.
Their services cover, among others, adult psychology, child psychology, family and couple's therapy.
If you say you read Metropolitan, receive a free first consultation!
Tania Spearman - Tania offers a gentle yet effective approach to health and well-being through acupuncture. She is a UK university trained acupuncturist with her own clinic in the center of Barcelona. She has experience treating conditions as various as sports injuries to fertility, depression, migraines and digestive disorders, treating the local and international communities of Barcelona.
Tania is offering all Metropolitan readers a 15€ discount on first appointments when you show her advert in the magazine.
Puff - Forget the conventional cigarette, tar, odours, smoke and harmful carcinogens. Puff allows you to smoke healthily and freely, whilst saving up to 70%. Visit their shop in Barcelona, discover the wide range of electronic cigarettes and accessories available. Enjoy the pleasure of smoking with the security of not harming your health or the health of others.
For a FREE TRIAL quote Metropolitan to qualify for our exclusive reader offer - €40 for the electric unit and charger plus 20ml of the nicotine flavour of your choice to last you a whole month at 70% less than normal cigarettes.
LANGUAGE SERVICES
BCN L.I.P. Language School - a great boutique school, with a welcoming atmosphere and located in the centre of the old town, BCN L.I.P. Language School can offer you a great reader discount and, furthermore, it can provide free additional classes, while the more you book, the more you get. The school is the perfect place to ensure succes in your language emersion, with very small class sizes and the most advanced facilities to enable you to succeed in your chosen language.
So, if you're looking to brush up your existing Spanish skills, or are just getting started, now's a great time to do it thanks to BCN L.I.P.'s special discounts (between 20 and 40 percent) being offered to our readers. Contact the school for more information and remember to mention Barcelona Metropolitan.
LEISURE
Mondo Rent - Mondo Rent is the leader in motorbike rental and scooter rentals in Barcelona and scooter rentals in Ibiza. With over 500 bikes distributed in Barcelona, we offer a fun new way to visit Barcelona: Rent a scooter, rent a Motobike, rent a Quad or rent a Bicycle and live the city through the eyes of a true citizen.
Mondo rent offers an alternative healthy entertainment for residents and visitors to Barcelona. An intimate, original and privileged way to discover the city, its squares, monuments, people on bicycles in Barcelona. And with a bicycle you can enjoy the environment in a very direct and engaging way.
If you say you read Metropolitan magazine, get a 10% discount!
Post&Up - Send someone you love a special gift, a photoletter, the postcard with its own, built-in frame. If you want to tell people about your great summer in Barcelona, why not use one of Post&Up's unique products.
And for being a reader of Metropolitan, you'll get an exclusive 50 percent off your first order. Go here for details and to make your order. www.postandup.com
