Having been to Barcelona a number of times already and knowing that this was a nice area to stay in, the location of Georgina’s place didn’t disappoint. Yes, there is noise from the surrounding bars and restaurants at night, but something we were willing to accept without issue.
However our experience of this place, aside from its location was somewhat underwhelming, to say the least.
The check in process seemed overly complicated, having to travel to collect keys from a completely different building in a different area of town, before being able to access the apartment. This combined with a lack of flexibility on leaving suitcases etc made the process awkward.
Once in the apartment, we noticed immediately that the photographs on the website do a good job of making the space appear bigger than it is in actuality, and also hide the fact that there is an elevator that leads directly into the bedroom as the main point of access. Whilst you can only access your floor if you use the key card, so there is no security risk in theory, people can be going up and down the lift shaft to their own respective floors at all hours, causing a noisy lift to travel directly through the second floor bedroom. A bizarre design, omitted from the pictures. To add to this, the lift door was actually jammed a number of times during our 5 day stay and needed to be almost forced open to allow us to exit.
The shower in the apartment gave 2 minutes of hot water (at most) before then going luke warm to cold again for the remainder of the day. This was something I contacted Georgina about on the first night of our stay to see if it was normal, only to receive no subsequent assistance or acknowledgement of any sort. The next correspondence was our automated “check out instructions” message days later.
Overall the place lacked warmth or any welcoming touches of any sort, and having never left a negative review on Airbnb before, it is a shame to have had to do so now.