Hostal Barcelona Reviews

Good location. Wifi is not good.

The worst thing was the breakfast buffet, €6 per person and in the bar below we paid €13 for 2 people and we had a very good breakfast. In the hostel there were cereals that were crumbly and the sausage was dried

very good

The only time I've come across a worker who has to pay the city tax for two

lack of equipment

still ok

Clean and well located

A mistake the photo on the Hostal website is nothing like the actual building. If you don’t have much money okay but others avoid it. Having had a fabulous Hostal experience in Madrid this place does not live up to its reviews. We checked out and booked into a hotel.

Great hotel for any type of traveler, with free WIFI in all of the rooms and dining area. The staff were great, very friendly.

Incredibly small single room and bathroom. Closest I’ve ever been to living in a prison cell

The hostel is super centrally located. I had air conditioning and a tv in my room and a private bathroom. The room was cleaned every day. You can get everywhere on foot. The nearest metro station is only 3 min away. There are supermarkets everywhere.

Nice place and nice people. What it says, no more no less. Thank you!

I stayed in room 115, it was an internal room with no natural light. The only window in the room opened onto an internal fire escape, and had bars on the window. The walls were thin, and you could hear waste running down the drains. I'd recommend taking earplugs if you intend to stay here. On a plus, the staff were friendly when I interacted with them, and the hotel is centrally located only a few minutes away from the metro

I stayed here as I was originally staying in Cambrils for 3 nights but found out I couldn't get back at night by bus or train and a taxi would cost me €280+. So a cheap hotel was needed, so I kind of knew what I was about to walk into given that I'd already seen previous reviews of this place. But given that the photos looked pretty decent I thought for 1 night it would be okay... 1 night was all I needed. I've seen people have stayed here for days/week haha I don't know how they did it. So my room was on the top floor, I go to the gym often and even that knackered me out as the lifts wasn't working. I get to my room and I'm not lying, my shed is bigger than my room. I literally had no space to do anything. There was a weird smell too but I couldn't work out what it was. Wasn't the worst but it wasn't very nice either. The headboard was sticky!!! Every time I put my head on it, my hair would just get stuck to it. Beds were okay, weren't the most comfortable but it was okay to sleep on, could've done with an extra pillow though, I'd challenge the staff to tell me that's how they sleep at home. The decor is dated but they had people working on that during my stay in other rooms. And boy could you hear them, you can hear anything in that hotel! The banging, drilling, conversations in the hallway, shower being used in the next room. Everything! The walls are dead thin. The bathroom is a bit of a joke, to sit down on the toilet I had to open the door and sit an angle because the sink was in your space. The shower isn't a shower, it just dribbled out cold water. Took forever to let it get hot-ish, same with the basin tap. Had to dry myself in the bedroom as it's impossible to move in the bathroom. I make myself out to be a big guy, I'm tall but I'm slim build and even I struggled. If you're in the overweight bracket (respectfully) then honestly, don't book this place up. You're gonna struggle, even I did. No shower gel or shampoo, it's basically hand soap. Pathetic really. Had to come back to the room a few hours later and shower again, that was fun. Not sure about other rooms but the view from my window was the window from the opposite building, a staircase below and half a roof above. I guess you get what you pay for, luckily I only needed this to sleep in. As soon as I was up and showered I was straight out of there. Even at the end, check out was 12 but my flight was at 9pm, popped my bags in the locker in the lobby and had another day in Barcelona. The staff didn't speak English, very little so don't expect much unless you speak Spanish. Face like thunder too. Would I ever come back? No lol.. but if it wasn't for this place I'd have spent hundreds of pounds just for 1 night. This just got me by which is what I needed. But I see some people choosing to stay there for more than 2 nights.. honestly, I wouldn't bother. I'm not the high maintenance type and even for me this was painful. Great location though, right next to the coast and some good place