Unfortunately this booking was the biggest mistake and very disappointing.
I never got to live in this beautiful flat in which I had booked a single room for 3 month.
The day I arrived in Barcelona, Oscar proposed me a " much better" deal which was living in the flat of a friend of his (in the same building) all by myself instead of living with 6 men who apparently were not very clean and having to share a bathroom with all of them. I would have the whole flat for myself.
Before my arrival Oscar had written me on airbnb that I would be living in the flat with only one other person (and suddenly they were 6???)
When I changed my mind the next day and wanted to come back to my original booking because none of the services I had booked were included in the new place, my room at Oscar's was not any longer available although Oscar hadn't cancelled my booking. Missing services were for example:
- internet: the owner told me to stand next to the wall in the entry hall in order to catch the neighbours wifi.
- washing machine: the owner told me I could wash my laundry next to the building and would only have to pay a few Euros. When I said that this would mean extra charges he made fun of me asking how many times I wash my laundry.
- having the place for myself: the owner told me that I would have to share the flat with other people.
After they told me all this I preferred to go to the place I had originally booked as there was no comparison and as I was not told the truth.
After endless discussions and failed arrangements which lasted around 2 weeks, me wanting to get a room in the flat I had booked I was told to leave. I had 4 hours to pick my stuff because apparently the room which I was staying in was already reserved by someone else.
The same day, a few hours later Oscar asked me to tell airbnb that it was a common decision that I had left the flat and to tell them that everything was fine.
These people are telling a lot of lies and unfortunately they turned the beginning of my stay in Barcelona very difficult.