My stay in this apartment was a nightmare.
Let's just start by saying that it is not a normal Airbnb, but most likely a renting agency with many different apartments in Barcelona.
I asked if I could leave my bags at 13, because I had two big backpacks, but they wouldn't let me (they said because they had to clean the room) so I had to carry around my bags until 16, which was the time of the check in.
When I arrived at the designated location, I texted the host (supposedly Julia) both on Airbnb and, after not getting a response, on Whats App. After waiting for 20 minutes, I got told that there had been some problems and that I had to go to another apartment nearby. Once I got there, and waited for about 10 minutes again, a woman arrived. She did not say who she was, or the reason why I had to be moved (since she didn't speak pretty much any English) and took me to yet another apartment on the other side of the street. She also seemed kind of angry and was not friendly at all. She asked for my phone number, email address and a pic of my ID card and/or passport.
The apartment itself was ok for the price. I found some hair in the bed linen, the microwave was half melt, the pans were in horrible conditions, my room had a balcony connected to the next room (and randomly found two children looking inside my room from outside) and the room was not insonorized at all and you could hear the cars from outside like if they were passing right next to you.
But this is not the description of this exact room or apartment, since I got moved.
My stay was going ok, until, on the last day of my stay (it was a total of 3 days) at 9 in the morning, when Iwas about to go out to enjoy my last day there, I got told to pac my things because I had to be moved to another apartment (the 4th) two hours later. I was pretty shocked by this message, and asked support from Airbnb, which wasn't useful. I then said that I was going out and I wouldn't be homeby that time,but they insisted in me packing my things, and if I wouldn't have been in the apartment they would have moved my things without me. Since I did not trust them at all, I had to stay but asked to be brought to the new apartment on less than 30 minutes. I was frustrated, since I had to pack, unpack and then pack again for my departure the next morning at 5.30.
I was accompanied to the new apartment by another woman (I believe a cleaning lady) that was probably the only one who spoke a bit of English. I was in shock and found it funny when I discovered that the apartment was the second one I went to, on the other side of the street. When we arrived, there were still people in the room, so we waited for them to go and then I left my backpacks in the room even though it wasn't clean (unlike what they told me the first day).
Since I lost a lot of my time and I thought that the situation was ridicolous to say the least, I asked for a partial refund, which Julia (or whoever is in charge) didn't give me. I then asked for it at the Airbnb support, but they also did not validate my request.
Said that, I really hope that my case was just a mistake and that it won't happen to anyone else.
I definitely don't recommend this place and for sure I won't be back.