When we arrived the apartment smelled bad. My bedsheets seemed dirty (there were stains and hairs on them) so I pulled them off and washed them myself only to discover mold on the mattress. When I reached out to the host they didn’t offer to send someone to clean it or remedy the situation, they just said it’s a basement unit and mold is common so we need to ventilate the unit more. We also found mold growing on the wall. I spent my first day in Barcelona washing my sheets and scrubbing mold off of my mattress.
A lot of the basic accommodations were broken or just not available. There were no blankets in case it got chilly sleeping at night so we were forced to use our shower towels. There was a washer but no dryer and no rack so we had to spread clothes and furniture across the back alleyway to dry our clothes. The shower head was so broken that it just leaked water in different directions. The kitchen sink’s faucet was falling off.
The cleanliness also was not good. In addition to the mold and seemingly dirty sheets, there were stains all over the couch, paint chips would fall on us when we showered, I found a used shaving razor in my dresser drawer, and the walls had stains all over them.
The furniture layout was also poor yet we were told we weren’t allowed to move the furniture. My bed was placed directly under a window that looked up to the sidewalk. The window had no curtain so people could look down at me while I slept / throughout the day. Also, the dressers were all placed on the opposite side of the rooms from the power outlets so we had to charge our devices on the floor.
The pictures in the listing aren’t entirely accurate. The walls have a lot of stains and damage and the living room is more cramped with a cube organizer against the wall. The shower is also different and we couldn’t find the full bed mentioned in the listing.
We booked this listing fully aware that it would be a cheap “crash pad.” Even going in with those standards, we don’t recommend it. We ended up going to a hotel one of our last nights and one of our guests rebooked their flight so they could leave days early because they didn’t want to stay there anymore. We would have communicated more of these concerns with the host but we figured they wouldn’t help much after we complained about mold on a mattress and were just left to clean it up ourselves.