Central Station Hostel Barcelona — Hotel in Barcelona

We had a nightmare experience with this "hostel". Seemed more like a cover-up for something more worse. The reception was full of shady men who clearly worked there but they weren't interested about their paying customers and the well grounded feedback.||||We arrived there and first said that we need to pay more a "tourist fee" in top of the already paid in online room price. Fortunately we had printed the receipt and reasoned them that reservation terms said that thats all of the costs. ||||The manager said that they don't have any free rooms for us at the building, but can show us a couple of other "close by" places that are free. I went to look for the "hostel rooms" which were actually random apartments 1km away from the actual location of the hostel. Both of the places looked like a construction site workers resting places. Filled with empty beer cans, garbage, cardboard, beds unmade and dirty sheets etc. AND we booked a room for three and the second place had one double bed for two, nothing else (except the crap on tho floors). ||||We had a huge verbal fight and the situation felt extremely threatening for all of us. At the end the situation and the hell they put us through, they magically all of the sudden had a room from the same block with the beds for three that we paid for. The room was tolerable, hot but ok. We would have prefer to go somewhere else after all the anxiety, but didn't have a choice that time of the night and the entire city fully booked. ||||All of this took over 1,5 hours. ||||NEVER GO, you are better sleeping on the beach than under the roof of this...

We had a nightmare experience with this "hostel". Seemed more like a cover-up for something more worse. The reception was full of shady men who clearly worked there but they weren't interested about their paying customers and the well grounded feedback.

We arrived there and first said that we need to pay more a "tourist fee" in top of the already paid in online room price. Fortunately we had printed the receipt and reasoned them that reservation terms said that thats all of the costs.

The manager said that they don't have any free rooms for us at the building, but can show us a couple of other "close by" places that are free. I went to look for the "hostel rooms" which were actually random apartments 1km away from the actual location of the hostel. Both of the places looked like a construction site workers resting places. Filled with empty beer cans, garbage, cardboard, beds unmade and dirty sheets etc. AND we booked a room for three and the second place had one double bed for two, nothing else (except the crap on tho floors).

We had a huge verbal fight and the situation felt extremely threatening for all of us. At the end the situation and the hell they put us through, they magically all of the sudden had a room from the same block with the beds for three that we paid for. The room was tolerable, hot but ok. We would have prefer to go somewhere else after all the anxiety, but didn't have a choice that time of the night and the entire city fully booked.

All of this took over 1,5 hours.

NEVER GO, you are better sleeping on the beach than under the roof of this...

I picked this hostel through hostelling international, who I used for a trip to canada which was super social and organised. When I got there the receptionist was polite but I felt like I was a bit of a nuisance or something which did leave me feeling very welcome. The information up on the walls was all out of date, they only seem to care for when summer hit. The kitchen is so very basic, it doesn't even have a proper cooker, but a hot plate that wasn't working. Breakfast was ok, filled a gap for start of day and it was pretty quiet as hostels go. I just felt alot more effort could have been made by putting up to date info on walls, it really lets down the HI hostels I have used before. Some pro's its in the middle/just of the ramblas and very close to the metro and airport drop off/pick up point. Not more than a 30 min walk to barcoleneta and is good for somewhere to sleep. If you want something more social thou...