MIAMI7
Stansted Airport
Featured in: “Take Off”
Location: Enterprise House, Bassingbourn Rd, Stansted, Essex CM24 1QW, United Kingdom
SClub7 head to this airport after their manager, Danny Parsons, tells them they are going to Miami.
Villas By The Sea
Featured in: All episodes
Location: 4511 El Mar Dr., Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, FL 33308
Known in the series as the “Florida Paradise Hotel”, this hotel served as the main filming location in Miami7. The interior shots of the dormitories were not of the actual hotel and were filmed in the UK. Sclub7 stayed in the hotel while filming. It was originally located on El Mar Drive in an area known as Lauderdale-By-The -Sea. The hotel was tore down in 2005 and rebuilt at a new location further down the road.
Howard Borlotti’s House
Credit – CJ Stephens
Featured in: “The Blue Chevvy”, “The Alligator”
Location: 1149 North Rio Vista Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale
Featured in: “The Alligator”
Location: 2414 E Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Website: http://www.galleriamall-fl.com/
When Howard plans a blind date with a girl online, Tina, Rachel, and Jo take him to the Galleria Mall to give him a makeover.
Miami Seaquarium
Featured in: “How Deep Is Your Love”
Location: 4400 Rickenbacker Causeway, Key Biscayne, FL 33149
Website: http://www.miamiseaquarium.com/
Fictionally called the “Seaquarium Dolphin Cove”, Howard sends the hotel staff and the band on the Annual Staff Retreat after Hannah tells a customer that there was cockroach in the hotel kitchen and The Florida Paradise Hotel temporarily gets closed down.
The Tides South Beach
Featured in: “Reprise”
Location: 1220 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, FL 33139
Website: http://www.tidessouthbeach.com/
After their 3 month contract is up in Miami, Sclub7 take a limo around the city (charged to Howard’s credit card) and meet Jill Ward for lunch at this posh hotel and they discuss the bands future.
Wyndham Royal Vista
Credit – CJ Stephens
Featured in: “Missing”
Location: 1110 S Ocean Blvd, Pompano Beach, FL 33062
Website: http://www.wyndhamroyalvista.com
Howard loses a card game and has to send the group to the Sunset Sand’s Hotel to work for his cousin, Hank.
LA7
Renaissance Tower
Credit – @sclub7_facts
Featured in: Opening Title, “Making Movies”
Location: 501 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Website: www.windsorcommunities.com/apartments/los-angeles/tower
The Rock Store
Featured in: “Clever Camp”
Location: 30354 Mulholland Highway, Cornell, California 91301
Website: www.rock-store.com/
Sclub7 finally made it to California but they are down to their last dollars. When they stop at a café in The Rock Store to figure out how to get money, the waitress hands them a newspaper with a job for them. The group heads out to “Camp Elysium” to become counselors.
Villa del Sol d’Oro
Credit – CJ Stephens
Featured in: “Clever Camp”
Location: 675 W Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, CA 91024
Website: http://www.sagardens.com
Known as “Camp Elysium”, Sclub7 get a job there as counselors and teach the brainy kids how to have fun.
Notes:Sierra Madre was also the town they visited in “Into The Unknown” and where they sold the red Chevy in “Hello Hollywood” around the ‘Kersting Court’ area. The car dealer was created beside the shop called Happy’s on Sierra Madre Boulevard.
Saharan Motor Hotel
Featured in: “Hello Hollywood”
Location: 7212 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Website: http://www.saharanhotel.com/
The band makes it to L.A. but now need to find somewhere to sleep for the night. This hotel seemed perfect on their tight budget but at $80 a room, the girls make Jon, Bradley, and Paul sleep in the car. The boys end up squeezing through the bathroom window to sleep inside which breaks hotel policy. The manager finds all 7 of them in the double room and kicks the group out of the hotel.
LA Beach House
Featured in: “Hello Hollywood” – “Goodbye Hollywood”
Location: 720 The Strand, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Though stated in series as being located on Venice Beach, Joni’s beach house is actually located further south on Manhattan Beach. Joni offer Sclub the upstairs apartment to rent after she runs over Bradley while rollerblading on the beach. Jo & Tina, Jon & Paul, and Hannah & Rachel pair up and take the 3 bedrooms while Bradley sleeps on the couch in the living room. At the end of the season, the group decides that it time to move on and plan to leave L.A.
Danny’s Venice
Featured in: “Hello Hollywood” – “Game Boy”, “Goodbye Hollywood”
Location: 23 Windward Ave., Venice, California 90291
Website: http://www.dannysvenice.com/
Known s the “Venice Vista Café”, Sclub7 (minus an injured Bradley) impress Mr. Madurski and convince him to give them a gig. They perform ‘Natural’ for their first gig and in later episodes perform ‘I’ll Keep Waiting’, ‘Stand By You’, and ‘Cross My Heart’. Paul, Bradley, and Jon are all seen working at the café occasionally.
House Sitting
Credit – CJ Stephens
Featured in: “House Sitting”
Location: 6288 Porterdale Dr, Malibu, CA 90265
In order to make money to pay rent, Joni get a job for Paul, Rachel, and Jo to house sit. They end up throwing a party and trashing the house.
Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant
Credit – CJ Stephens
Featured in: “Making Movies”
Location: 6100 Woodley Ave, Los Angeles, CA 91406
One of the locations that Sclub use as part as their bank robber movie.
Notes: The radio station and photocopying shop in “Working” were also located in the grounds of the place along with the reception desk of ‘StratiSoft’ in “Game Boy”.
Linda Vista Senior Apartments
Credit – CJ Stephens
Featured in: “Working”
Location: 630 S St Louis St, Los Angeles, CA 90023
The group all need to get jobs to fix the wiring in Joni’s apartment. One of Bradley’s job was a nude model for aspiring painters.
HOLLYWOOD7
Venice Suites
Featured in: “Last Chance” – “Public Relations”
Location: 417 OceanFront Walk, Venice, CA, 90291
Website: http://www.venicesuites.com/
When the band leaves the ‘unstable’ house on the hill in the Christmas Special, they move into this loft apartment in Hollywood. They live here until Dean’s record company rents them a new house.
Hollywood House
Credit – CJ Stephens
Featured in: “Doing The Deal” – “The Return”
Location: 1100 Grace Ln, Los Angeles, CA 90049
Used as the aerial shot for the Sclub house that was given to them by their record company.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Featured in: “The Cousin”
Location: 3911 S Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA 90037
Website: http://www.lacoliseumlive.com/
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is the setting for the LA Marathon that Dean makes SClub7 & Ben run.
Griffith Observatory
Featured in: “Last Chance”
Location: 2800 E Observatory Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.griffithobservatory.org/
This is the first location we see in Hollywood 7. Paul is recording the group while they discuss not being famous yet.
Los Angeles International Airport
Featured in: “The Cousin”
Location: 1 World Way
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.lawa.org/welcomelax.aspx
Paul, Jo, and Hannah head to the airport at the beginning of the episode to pick up Hannah’s cousin, Ben.
Korean Bell Of Friendship
Featured in: ”The Fan”
Location: 3601 S Gaffey St
Los Angeles, CA 90731
This is one of the locations that Sclub films the music video for ‘Summertime Feeling’. The group dress in black and white as ninjas.
VIVA SCLUB
El Xalet de Monjuïc Restaurant
Featured in:
Location: Avinguda de Miramar, 31, 08038 Barcelona
Website: http://gruptravi.com/xalet/
Viva S Club’s fantastic house in Barcelona is nowadays a luxurious restaurant. The place was bought in 2004 by the company Grup Travi which remodeled the building noticeably.
World Trade Center Barcelona
Featured in: Opening Theme
Location: Moll de Barcelona, 08039 Barcelona
Website: http://www.wtcbarcelona.com/
The energetic intro for Viva S Club was shot at the roof terrace of this business building in the middle of Barcelona’s harbor.
Estació de França
Featured in: “The Fame in Spain”, “A Problem Like Maria”
Location: Avinguda del Marquès de l’Argentera, 6, 08003 Barcelona
Barcelona’s train station is the initial point of Viva S Club; it is also the place where Rachel and Hannah discovered that Maria was not only working as their housekeeper; and where the S Club boys run around while “Hello Friend”.
Parc Güell
Featured in: “The Fame In Spain”, “A Problem Like Maria”, “Jon De Bergerac”
Location: Carrer d’Olot, s/n, 08024 Barcelona, Spain
Parc Güell is the first touristic stop for S Club; they admired “El Drac” (the dragon sculpture) and the different structures when Bradley realized he wanted to become a painter. The moment when Jo tried to fire Lyall, their new manager; some scenes from “Sunshine” and the scene where Paul and Tina are songwriting were all also shot in here.
Sala La Paloma
Featured in: “A Problem Like Maria”, “Jon De Bergerac”
Location: Carrer del Tigre, 27, 08001 Barcelona
This emblematic music Lounge from Barcelona, currently closed, is where S Club 7 performed “Don’t Stop Movin’ and where Bradley felt in love with Isabella.
“Club S Club”
Featured in: From “Absent Friends” – “Of Mice And Music”
Location: Latitude: This pub is next to Sitges’ Camp de Golf at: 08870 Sitges, Barcelona. The roads to follow are called C-246a and Carrer Joan de la Cierva. 41°13’24.55″N; Longitude: 1°46’33.76″E
Know in the series as “Club Catalán” and later “Club S Club” is the place which the band decided to buy after Paul’s departure. This pub gave S Club the opportunity to perform whenever they wanted; they sang a great variety of songs from “Seeing Double” in here.
El Remitger
Featured in: “Absent Friends”
Location: Passeig Joan de Borbó, 63, 08003 Barcelona
This shop called “El Remitger” is where Bradley and Rachel took Hannah to try to keep her distracted from thinking about Paul’s departure.
Sant Sebastiá Beach’ in Barcelona
Featured in: “The Rain In Spain”, “Of Mice And Music”
Location: Carrer de la Vila Joiosa, 52, 08003 Barcelona
This beach’s promenade next to “La Barceloneta” is where the group discussed what was going on between Lyall and the waitress he was in love with; and where Rachel tried to persuade the inspector to sign them a performance license.
Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar
Featured in: “Of Mice And Music”
Location: Plaça de Santa Maria, 1, 08003 Barcelona
This is where the band debated whether they should perform at their club without the license or not.
Catedral de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulalia de Barcelona
Featured in: “The Fame In Spain”
Location: Pla de la Seu, s/n, 08002 Barcelona
Website: http://www.catedralbcn.org/
This is the Cathedral that Bradley used as an inspiration for one of his paintings.
Nova Icária Beach and Inercia Xiringuito
Featured in: “The Hardest Word Is Goodbye”, “Superstition”
Location: Playa de Nova Icària, 08005 Barcelona
Website: http://inerciabeach.com/inicio.html
The beach of Nova Icária is where the beach bar, “Inercia Xiringuito”, is located. This bar is the place where Maria ran after Bradley to keep him away from eating junk food; here, the band talked with Lyall about the promotion of the demo of “Gangsta Love”; and Nova Icária is also the beach where the S Club girls freed the lobster.
Vivero Beach Club Restaurant
Featured in: “The Fame In Spain”, “A Problem Like Maria”
Location: Paseo Balmins, s/n, 08870 Sitges, Barcelona
Website: http://www.elviverositges.com/
In this warm restaurant by the beach of Sant Sebastiá in Sitges, Bradley revealed that someone was interested in the creations he had been doing as a painter; and Hannah and Rachel discussed the problems going on with Maria.
Sant Bartolomé I Santa Tecla Church
Featured in: “Jon de Bergerac”
Location: Plaça de l’Anjuntament, 20, 08870 Sitges, Barcelona
Website: http://www.parroquiadesitges.com/
When Jo tried to become a more feminine girl, Hannah and Rachel persuaded her to try to convince the barman to let the band perform in the pub the girls were in. This pub is a fictional place located at Passeig de la Ribera, but at the back the church of Sant Bartolomé I Santa Tecla Church is spoted, there is where the band sang “Sunshine” later on.
La Rambla and El Mirador de Colón
Featured in: “The Fame In Spain”
Location: La Rambla, 08002, Barcelona.
El Mirador de Colón Location: Plaza Portal de la Pau, 6, 08039 Barcelona
La Rambla is one of Barcelona’s most famous streets; here is located the pub where Jo, Rachel and Paul were interviewed by an American magazine; and where Jon wrote one of the love letters to help Bradley win the love of Isabella. At one end of La Rambla we find “El Mirador de Colón”, a monument which is also featured in the show, at Plaza Portal de la Pau. Here is where S Club met the bunch of fans that Jon and Lyall hired to encourage the band and it is also where the group sang “Summertime Feeling”.
Parc de la Ciudatella
Featured in: “Goodbye Is the Hardest Word” – “Shake Down”, “Spanish Jon”
Location: Passeig de Picasso, 21, 08003 Barcelona
In this park in the middle of Barcelona is set up the fictional bar where Paul talked with Lyall about his departure; and where the band discussed their new name. There was another fictional bar that they set up here by the park’s lake, where Jon discovered his Spanish relative, Don Eduardo; moreover the scene where Hannah smashes Jon’s guitar was also shot in this park.
VIVA SCLUB & SEEING DOUBLE
Sant Sebastiá Beach in Sitges
Featured in: “The Fame In Spain”, “A Problem Like Maria” and in “Seeing Double”
Location: Carrer de Port Alegre, 08870 Sitges, Barcelona
In this beach the band discussed about their future in Spain with Lyall; here is also located the overlook in which they argued about who had to be the one firing him. The Sant Sebastiá beach appears both at the beginning and the end of Seeing Double, first when they are in the bar where they see their clones performing on TV and then at the end when they speak about their clones getting paid in boomerangs.
Poble Espanyol
Featured in: “24 Hours Till Doomsday” and “Seeing Double”
Location: Av Francesc Ferrer I Guardia, 13, 08038 Barcelona
Website: https://www.poble-espanyol.com/es
Almost the whole 12th episode was shot here, specially the stadium where they performed “Alive”; the scene from Seeing Double in which Hannah is running with lots of shopping bags; and the scenario used to shot the video for “Dance” are also located here.
SEEING DOUBLE
Palau Sant Jordi
Location: Passeig Olímpic, 5-7, 08038 Barcelona
Know in the movie as LA’s “Fuller Center”, the stadium where the S Club clones were performing is in fact Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi. The radio interview and press conference at the beginning of the movie were filmed in the surrounding area.
El Palace Hotel Barcelona
Location: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 668, 08010 Barcelona
Website: http://hotelpalacebarcelona.com/
This five stars hotel is the one used to film the hotel scenes at the beginning of Seeing Double.
Parc del Laberint d’Horta
Location: Passeig dels Castanyers, 1, 08035 Barcelona
Website: http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/MediAmbient/menuitem.0d4d06202ea41e13e9c5e9c5a2ef8a0c/?vgnextoid=2598b9255ea6a210VgnVCM10000074fea8c0RCRD&lang=es_ES
This is the labyrinth which S Club went through when looking for their clones’ residency.
La Vall Salina i la Muntanya de Sal de Cardona
Location: Carretera de la Mina, 08261 Cardona, Barcelona
Website: http://cardonaturisme.cat/ca/muntanya-de-sal/vall-salina-muntanya-sal-cardona/
The Salt Mountain Cultural Park of Cardona is where the S Club clones were born in the movie; and where Victor, the evil clone master, kept the real S Club prisoners.
El Castell i la Fortalesa de Cardona
Location: Castell De Cardona s/n, 08261, Cardona, Barcelona
Website: http://cardonaturisme.cat/ca/castell/el-castell-i-la-fortalesa/
This is Victor’s castle where the last scenes from Seeing Double were filmed, including the part when they were in the dining room and the scene where they sang “Who Do You Thing You Are” before averting the explosion.
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Hispanos Siete Suiza
Featured in: TOTP’s Showing Apartment Special
Location: Carrer de Sicília, 255, 08025 Barcelona
Website: http://www.hispanos7suiza.com/es/index.html
S Club stayed in their own apartments while filming Seeing Double. Jon and Hannah’s apartment was showed in a Top Of the Pop’s special.
Ennis House
Featured in: Have You Ever Music Video
Location: 2607 Glendower Ave.
Los Angeles, California
