Barcelona City Seven

Good
Traveller Type:
  : Everything was clean, even though it looked a bit shabby. Staff was pleasant and helpfull.Location is great, plenty of stores around, breakfast around the corner, bus and metro are very close.
  : There was no hot water the first night, it was fixed the next morning. The air-conditioning was poorly placed and I'm not sure if it was cleaned recently.

Poor
Traveller Type:
  : Lets just start with the positive, because I am fair and I will give an open and honest review as someone that travels the world regularly and stays in all kinds of places from 5star luxury to jungle huts. The place was clean and in a good area. The one guy who we saw/staff was friendly enough. The breakfast was edible. That is unfortunately the only good thing I have about this experience. Myself and a friend paid 452 total inc tax to stay for 4 nights (thats GBP not Euro) in a mini hotel and what we arrived to was a minus 50 prison cell with zero daylight (this is not an exaggeration - there was zero daylight in the room with a window that seemed to open up to another inside space. Please see the photo below fortaken at 10am with the curtains open... It was not pleasant) We paid more money to have a private bathroom (which as we learned doesnt mean you have a bathroom in your room in our case, but a tiny toilet and 4ft bath/shower across the public hallway with a key. It was incredibly uncomfortable to go to the bathroom and or take a shower because you didnt know who would be in the hallway at any time. Lets break it down - this place is a hostel within what seems to be a residential apartment block, not a mini hotel. It was supposed to be soundproofed - we ended up being disturbed by noise of other guests at 3am so there definitely was no soundproofing where we were. We had w wardrobe with no doors and no space because there was an oversized fridge taking up the luggage space - we travelled with only hand luggage and the room was so small that we couldnt even unpack. We had one plug socket above the bed and so couldnt charge phone and have a lamp on at the same time,plus the plug was faulty and also right on the light switch so the light would go out when you plugged in. The policy states that you receive your door entry code when you purchase the room.

Poor
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The staff was nice. And the communication too.
  : The rooms do not look like the pictures at all. It felt like a cell or a place where you put your unneeded things for the household it was clean but plain and dark. Would not recommend.

Disappointing
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Location
  : Extremely noisy, terribly shared bathroom looks like at least 25 years old since last renovation. Photos from Booking.com were highly inaccurate.

Wonderful
Traveller Type:
  : Good location, good and pleasant people working, nice breakfast if you want it.I was a little sceptic about sharing bathroom, but i was pleasantly suprised how clean, organised bathrooms were, and its 1 bathroom for 3-4 rooms so it was almost always free to go in.You can get new towels when you want it. Everything was clean and rooms can get cleaned when and if you want it.All in all great stay and great people working. (For that price)