One of my worst traveling experiences ever. Do not stay here.
I was staying in the apartment with my brother, my godfather (45 y.o), my mother (63 y.o) and my father (72 y.o), so it was very weird when we got a message the first night saying neighbours were complaining about noise in our apartment, since we were just dining and talking as a family would after walking around the city all day.
We thought it was a mistake, because the other apartments (which are also rented by the same company) were having parties with loud music and we could smell weed, so we naturally believed someone had confused us for them.
However, on the second night two guys (who the company said were from the "night staff") knocked on our door at 11pm and started being agressive towards us saying neighbours were complaining and we had to be silent. Initially we were trying to explain in Spanish that it wasn't us making the noise, but since they were being loud, agressive and pointing at us, I started answering them in English (my Spanish is rough). They took me switching to English as disrespectful and were very insistent that we could only keep talking in Spanish. At that point I really believed it could get physical because of their attitude. Needless to say, my parents were very freightened by the situation and it significantly impacted our stay in Barcelona.
Eventually we just "agreed" with them to de-escalate the situation, but we felt very disrespected and somewhat threatened.
When we explained the situation to the owners, they said there was a "sonometer" in the apartment and this would not have happened if we were not being loud. As I said, we were dining and talking as a family with elder people would. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.
We contacted Airbnb and I hope they do something about it.
If this is not reason enough, there were other problems with the apartment:
- neighbours clearly are not fine with airbnb hostings there. One guy said to our face he was done with tourists coming in and out of the building and that this had to end.
- One of the beds was broken
- None of the inside doors of the apartment can be locked
- The balcony door is completely broken. It is impossible to be closed and it looks like it is going to fall any minute
- The main door of the building would not always close (anyone could enter if noticed that)
- As already said, there are parties and loud noise in the building, and you can be accused of being responsible even if you are not
Save yourself the trouble and stay somewhere else.