we stayed in lloret last weeked, transfers with cst to perpignan, everything went smoothly. i agree perpignan is very expensive, we were paying on average £5 a pint, despite the prices we had a fantastic weekend, the result helped of course. i dont think there is anything wrong with lloret, certainly cheaper than perpignan, our hotel was £70 for three nights, all inclusive.

And what's the betting that some people will go there and look for Irish bars and Fosters and English breakfast – and then complain about the cost?

You can get a Frog Bus from Gerona airport up to Perpignan, or there's the option of the train, as mentioned earlier.

When we go over for the Rhinos game we're staying in Northern Spain (L'Estartit) for 10 days, but getting a hire car and doing an overnighter on the game day. The trip up on the motorway is straight forward, and doesn't cost that much either.

good choice, but if you're thinking of staying around there, you've got to look at cadaques... beautiful!

We'd done that and the touristy bit the day before, some lovely cafe bars, we ended up in this one as it was over the street from the hostel we were staying in, we'd only gone out as a last night drink in barcelona, early night and then drive to perpignan saturday morning, somehow we ended up at another irish bar at the bottom la ramblas at 3am watching WWE smackdown and arguing with a hen party from Leicester who were ardent Tigers fans trying to wind us up.

no one had warned us that after midnight you can get (offered) anything on la ramblas, beer, speed, coke,pot and what i can only guess were transexual prostitutes. Or not very nice looking ladies at least.

That's where it's really worth, if you're going somewhere new, getting a copy of something like the [iTime Out[/i to a place. It'll tell you that sort of thing, but also loads about eating out, entertainment etc.