Vila Olímpica Beach

Vila Olimpica and that beach area is a site i frequent often with my friends. It has a beautiful beach, a casino, and many great restaurants (some of which turn into night clubs). During the day when it is nice out I often go there for walks. I love being on the beach and by the ocean and this area is in my opinion, one of the nicest in Barcelona. During the nighttime there are a lot of great restaurants to chose from that later on turn into awesome nightclubs. I often go to Shoko and Opium, which are both great restaurants during the day and really fun clubs during the night time. Shoko has great Japanese food, which is my favorite in Barcelona. The beach is crowded when it gets nice out and people love going there to hang out when there is good weather. A view of the beautiful hotel W (or hotel vela as called by the locals) is visible, which is a brand new hotel that opened this year that is the talk of the town. Its architecture is absolutely beautiful and it is supposed to look like a sail in the ocean. I have been lucky to visit the hotel numerous times because my visiting friends have stayed there a couple of times. I sometimes go to the spa there as well.
There is also a McDonalds in the area that my friends and I go to all the time which contains as far as I now, the only drive through McDonalds in Barcelona called a McAuto. I have noticed taht McDonalds in Europe are a lot nicer and classes than in America. Also, the portions are a lot smaller so that a large is equal to a medium in America and a Medium is equal to a small in America. This phenomenon is very strange to me and shows a lot about how much larger our portions are in America. In the area there is also the Hotel Arts, a really nice 5 star hotel that is a really tall tower that can be seen as one of Barcelon'a tallest building. A really cool huge fish sculpture called paix that was designed by Frank O. Gehry is present next to the Hotel Arts.