Live the F1 in Barcelona

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This weekend will take place in Barcelona Spain’s Grand Prix. If you like Formula 1 races you should attend either to the practices, the qualifying or to the race itself.

The experts say that it will be a really interesting race due to the high rate of passing cars outside the DRS zone. And the Ferrari has improved its aerodynamics, so it seems that the competitiveness between Ferrari and Red Bull will grow.

Montmeló circuit its located outside Barcelona but there’s a short train trip that gets you to the circuit. And there’s only a two minute walk to the train station from Equity Point Centric Hostel!!

Temps de Flors. Impressive flower exhibition at Girona

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From May 12th to 20th Girona will celebrate its 57th Temps de Flors edition, an impressive flower exhibition that garnishes the whole city with the most amusing flowers giving to it an incredible appearance.

There will be 82 traditional courtyards 27 exhibitions and of course, the gardens. Also on Saturday May 19th all the flower visits and the museums will be open until midnight.

Girona is an amazing city to discover with a Jewish neighborhood that dates from century XII, and a wonderful Cathedral. And the best is that Equity Point Girona Hostel is located at the main city square, at Plaça Catalunya.

A red rose for all our guests on ‘La diada de Sant Jordi’ (St George’s day) – Monday the 23rd of April

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The romantic legend of St George slaying the dragon, and presenting his adored princess with a red rose which sprang from the blood of the beast has inspired the most romantic day of the Catalan calendar, rivalling St Valentine’s Day. Gifts exchanged between sweethearts, traditionally roses, is tradition in Catalonia, where Equity Point was born.

Exchanging books is also traditional, which springs from the celebration of the deaths of distinguished authors Miguel Cervantes and Shakespeare on the 23rd of April.

Equity Point would like to share with you this day in all our hostels offering free roses to all our guests.

Feliç dia de Sant Jordi!

Equity Point Marrakech wins Hostelbookers Cleanliness Award for Excellence

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A few weeks ago Equity Point Marrakech Hostel won the 2012 Hostelbookers Cleanliness Award for Excellence and we’re really pleased by the recognition.

This award wouldn’t be possible without all the efforts of our Marrakech housekeeping team, the women who work every day at the hostel and that appear in the picture.

Thanks to all the Marrakech staff for all the efforts that had led us to have such a quality hostel.

Sonar at Barcelona, live the music

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Sonar, Barcelona’s famous electronic music festival, has just announced over 40 new artists for this year’s lineup. The list includes James Murphy, New Order, Die Antwoord or Lana del Rey. You can read the full list of artists here.

Sonar will take place in Barcelona on 14-15-16 of June. It will have live music day and night at two different locations. During the day everything will take place at the MACBA museum, and at night at Fira Gran Via.

All three Equity Point Hostels in Barcelona are perfectly located to get quickly to the Sonar live events. If you love music you shouldn’t miss this great event.

Equity Point Spring’12 Twitter Competition

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For us travelling is a way of life and we want to celebrate spring the best we can. We are going to give away 3 two night stays in a double room at Equity Point New York.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO

Only help us to get to share the message.

This competition is open to all our Twitter fans, and will take place until March 23rd 2012, at 00:00 hours.

You can win a three day stay for two people in a double room at our hostel in Times Square at New York City.

WONDERING HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

You only have to follow us on Twitter and retweet this tweet.

THE SMALL PRINT, BIG:

Stay is three nights for 2 people (only sleeping and the available breakfast at the hostel) and depending on availability at the hostel.

Stay has to be taken before 31/09/12.

You need to be our Twitter follower in order to enter the competition.

We will announce the winner on Monday 26th of March 2012.

Winners will be contacted via their Twitter profile and their names will be published in Equity Point’s Facebook and Twitter main page.

Equity Point will not use the participant personal data.

Don’t get lost on your way to Equity Point Marrakech

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Marrakech is a city with winding streets where it is extremely easy to get lost. For that reason we have a really detailed map explaining with precision how to get to Equity Point Marrakech.

But even with the most perfect map, Marrakech Medina’s can be hard, but also charming, the first time you get there. For that reason we want to share a video made by one of our guests that shows the way from Djemaa-el-Fna to Equity Point Marrakech.

Vídeo | Youtube