TRASH AND DISAPPOINTMENT. PRICELY!
It’s hard to say whether we were so unlucky, or in Barcelona it’s normal to beat money for shitty service. But the fact is that the whole month here we had bee under stress.
If you are traveling for the weekend and do not want to feel like at home, then most of the problems will pass by. But if you are looking for comfortable housing for 2 weeks or more, then definitely NO, especially during the hot summer. It's definitely not for elderly people and children.
The apartment is hot, stuffy, one good air conditioner for the whole apartment, terrible mattresses, endless construction outside the windows, smoke from smokers from the yard goes into the apartment.
One of the bedrooms has another air conditioner, but due to installation, it constantly makes loud noises. So that it is impossible to sleep in this room and in the room next door. Don't trust the host when they say that this is the model of air conditioner. These are actually the crooked hands of the AC master.
Audibility in the apartment is absolutely amazing! All the calls to the intercom, conversations of neighbors, slamming doors ... The vibration does not let you sleep due to the fact that the road is being hammered to pave new tram routes. This happens at 8-9 am or during daysleep hours. They also systematically hammer in neighboring apartments.
Sometimes just people from the street would just ring you to open the door. Sometimes it happens that there are problems with the sewerage in the house, and then they start by gouging out the slabs in the yard.
Sometimes you won't even be able to hear each other because the electricians in the stairwell are drilling or hammering. The building is being rewired. This is usually accompanied by a power outage, sometimes for an entire day. It got to the point that they even worked directly in the apartment. In our case, electrical work was carried out three weeks out of four.
Often you would get a bell ringing just to check if they had connected the electrical correctly.
It happened that electricians connected the phases incorrectly, and then we were running after them to prove that it was their work that caused those problems. For example, there were no hot water, electronics did not work, etc. They would shrug and ask you .... to call for another master! And since the host made us sign some kind of contract in Spanish, we didn't really want to explain why the equipment does not work anymore.
The host explained from the very beginning that everything that happens outside the walls of the apartment does not concern him. In the very first days he expressed a willingness to admit mistakes, but not pay for them. Especially, when it comes to a partial refund. He misinformed us on an important issue and refused to be responsible for the "misunderstanding". We are cheated.
Airbnb support has refused partial refunds unless the host wishes so. If, as they think, you did not suffer enough (for only 4000 € a month), then this is not a reason to fine poor Spanish hosts. So the "air cover" promises are senseless. Airbnb support can only be contacted for psychological care.