My experience at Eduardo’s apartment was an absolute nightmare. From the very beginning the check in procedure was extremely complicated. I got off a long tiring flight, arriving at 5pm (much after the check-in time). Upon my arrival I have asked Eduardo in advance for a number to call to ease my check in process. I did not receive a response from him until the next day!! I ended up finding a link with a number of a hostel (black swan hostel), which was associated with our apartment building management, and walked for 20mins with my heavy luggage in the streets of Barcelona to find the Hostel so that I could check in.
Once we finally checked in, to our dissatisfaction, the beds were extremely uncomfortable. Every aspect of it was absolutely terrible. The mattress and bed sheet provided was of very low quality, and even worse: the beds are unstable and roll around because they have wheels on them. The size of the rooms could barely fit the two single beds, so I can’t fathom why the wheels would even be useful?!
Other than that, the kitchen is not equipped with any utensils that are of use, even when we wanted to cook something. The knives included were a huge butchers knife and a bread knife. One sauce pan, and the actual electric stove only have 2 working pads out of 4. The window in the kitchen does not pry open, thus making ventilation basically impossible unless the living room balcony is wide open. The Air conditioning needs (at the very least) 5 minutes of being turned on for the compressor to actually work, thus causing us to sweat repeatedly whilst trying to seek comfort from the warm august Barcelona climate outside. Absolutely ridiculous!
The worst part of it all, was that there were civil works commencing from 6AM every day directly outside our apartment. Every single day we would wake up to super loud drilling of the asphalt road just outside the building, and this would not conclude until 6pm every day. Horrendous. What I found mind-baffling is that Eduardo failed to mention any of this although the works have been commenced much prior to our arrival to the apartment. I found it ridiculously unprofessional, yet alone the fact that he would respond a day later to nearly every message I would send through the Airbnb application.
Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse: I found it utterly absurd how upon our check-out, the cleaners just barged into our apartment at 10AM whilst some of us were inside sleeping and others showering!! I personally went to them and asked them to come back in an hour, and they came inside our apartment and refused to leave, waiting for us to pack and leave as if we were staying in their property for free!?
I highly recommend anyone to find another place else, because the price-tag that I have paid for one week at this abysmal apartment cannot be rationally explained to the fullest extent. Absolutely dreadful. My holiday was completely ruined, from the collective mixture of the discomfort I faced within the apartment itself, from the deafening road works outside, and from the unprofessional response times of the host. Massive, massive disappointment.