EnGrande Corporate Site

Simple, fast, secure online bookings

for the independent traveller

Founded in 2003 in Barcelona.
Leading brand budgetplaces.com with 20 city destinations.
20 destination-focused websites. Over 3,000 directly contracted collaborating 1, 2 & 3 star hotels, hostels, apartments and bed & breakfasts worldwide.
15,000 online reservations every month and growing.
60,000 room nights processed per month and growing.
Basic, reliable, affordable accommodation with easy access to the essential monuments and attractions of every destination we offer.
Management team information

Creator of the “€30 per night” concept – unique, independent, well-located budget accommodation at a specific target price per person, per night.
EnGrande provides instant online bookings for the dates you require in the location you want - no fuss, no delays.
40 employees, from a total of 20 nationalities.
2008 gross bookings: €35 million.
2007 gross bookings: €21 million.

budgetplaces.com is relaunched with an even clearer, Web 2.0 layout.
Venice is added as the 20th city destination on budgetplaces.com. The city-specific web site venice35.com also goes live.
Start of apartmentsi.com – EnGrande now also offers all of its apartments on a focussed site.
EnGrande launches its first directory pages, ruralsi.com and mallorca30.com.

Directly contracted collaborating establishments pass 3,000 mark., with more independent hotels, hostels, apartments and bed & breakfasts joining daily.
Over 7 million page views per month on EnGrande websites achieved.
EnGrande introduces it's new leading brand, budgetplaces.com – accommodation in all of our destination cities is now available on one web site.
Launch of Buenos Aires, New York, Vienna and Budapest sites in Q1; Istanbul, Athens, Krakow and Lisbon follow throughout the year.
New site language versions go live – EnGrande offers Paris35 in Japanese and all of our city websites in their own local language, including Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Turkish, Greek and Portuguese.

Launch of London, Berlin, Rome, Prague, Dublin, Amsterdam, Seville, Mallorca, Valencia and Istanbul reservations websites.
EnGrande now works with 1,700 online establishments in 14 destinations.
Italian language functionality added to all EnGrande websites.
2007 gross bookings: €21 million

The €30 per person, per night reaches beyond Spain to France with the launch of www.Paris35.com
German language version of www.Barcelona30.com launched.
EnGrande signs up establishment number 500 in March.
2006 gross bookings: €8 million

EnGrande creates the €30 per person, per night concept.
Launches www.Barcelona30.com
Signs up over 200 cool Barcelona hostels, apartments, hotels and urban bed & breakfasts.