Some buildings are like magnets. The closer you get, and the more you run your eyes over the structure, outlines, shapes and colours, the harder it is to walk away or take your eyes off them. This is what happens with the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.

Have we got a plan for you this summer! How would you like to experience Barcelona like a local and with a local? We know you would, which is why we’ve teamed up with Trip4Real to offer you an incredible Barcelona Experience. How does two nights’ accommodation for two people in one of our centrally located luxury apartments and not one, not two but three Trip4Real activities sound?

Congratulations to Lisa Matter and her family who have won the major prize in our Scratch&Win promotion.They will now enjoy their five day stay in Barcelona for free.

As you no doubt already know, this October we at Friendly Rentals are celebrating our tenth anniversary.To thank you for your continued support over the years we have a special discount available for fans of our Facebook page, valid on all reservations made before the end of the year.

It’s Friendly Rentals 10th anniversary and we want to celebrate it with you.

We have a winner! Do you want to know who the lucky winner of our “Pack Your Bags” competition is? If you do, keep reading!

Who would you take to a deserted island? And a weekend in Barcelona, Berlin or Istanbul? Make up your mind because with our new promotion you can take three friends with you on holiday without hiding them in your suitcase.

We have a winner! Congratulations to Jose Santana Garcia who has won an official Barça or Real Madrid shirt after correctly picking Real Madrid as winner of the Copa del Rey semi-final between Barça and Madrid.

With less than a week to go before the second semi-final of the Copa del Rey between Barcelona and Madrid, Friendly Rentals are giving you the chance to win a Barça or Madrid Shirt. All you have to do is enter our competition on Facebook and choose who you think is going to win this clash between the world’s two best teams. The second semi-final will be played in the Nou Camp on the 26th of February.

The votes for our Halloween 2012 Travel Writing Competition are in. Contestants were asked to let us know about their “Scariest Experience in a Foreign Place” in 150 words or less, and the results were quite a journey! From Carnevale in Venice to the Atlas Mountains, your stories took us to places we’d only imagined in our darkest (and, in some cases, most humorous) nightmares.