EnGrande Corporate Site

Simple, fast, secure online bookings

for the independent traveller

Founded in 2003 in Barcelona.
Leading brand budgetplaces.com with 70 city destinations.
30 destination-focused websites. Over 4,000 directly contracted collaborating 1, 2 & 3 star hotels, hostels, apartments and bed & breakfasts worldwide.
16,000 online reservations every month and growing.
65,000 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.
Budgetplaces.com is available as a mobile version and offers a free iPhone application – accommodation bookings from your iPhone. Anywhere, anytime.
60 employees, from a total of 25 nationalities.
2009 gross bookings: €43 million.
2008 gross bookings: €35 million.

EnGrande continues to grow at a rapid pace: After adding new destinations including Montreal, Melbourne, San Francisco or Los Angeles, the total number of destination cities rises to over 70.
Budgetplaces.com learns even more languages: google translator is integrated in the website with the goal of making budgetplaces.com available in up to 18 languages throughout the year.

EnGrande goes global: More than 25 new destinations are added throughout the year, including Rio de Janeiro, Marrakech, Sydney and Florence. A total of over 50 cities is reached.
The number of directly contracted hotel establishments keeps growing fast and reaches a total of 3,500 independent hotels, hostels, apartments and bed & breakfasts. New places in new destinations are added daily.
A mobile version and an iPhone application of Budgetplaces.com are launched in Q4. Instant accommodation booking is now possible from any mobile device, anywhere, anytime.
Budgetplaces.com is featured in media throughout Spain. The nº1 for low-cost travel accommodation appears in FHM Spain, elPeriodico, La Vanguardia, amongst others.
Relaunch of Apartmentsi.com – EnGrande now also offers all of its apartments on a focussed site.

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.