To start off, I’ll list the positives of our stay here: Great location, it really is in the heart of Barcelona and it is one of the cheapest air b&bs you can find. Also Marilin (the mother of Pedro) was very friendly and welcoming...but that’s basically it.
For the negatives: It is not written in the description, that you are sharing the space with up to 3 other people from AirBnB together in an apartment no bigger than 55m2. The kitchen is also very small, even though the whole apartment appears spacious online, not to mention it being very unhygienic as there was food left out, and counters were crowded with dirty dishes. On the second night, we were woken up abruptly by extremely loud voices just outside our room, as Marilin was checking in 2 more guests into the apartment. There was absolutely no consideration that there were 2 people sleeping just a few feet away. The last night we were woken up once again to loud voices outside our room, but at 7am this time as she was allowing the next guests staying in our room to hang out around the apartment for 2.5h, hogging the bathroom and continuing to be very loud. There were now 8 people in this tiny apartment. Beds were very squeaky which added to the no sleep we got during our stay. Room was very dark as the window just led to a laundry room, which also made the room smell really bad as we couldn’t get any air in. Also I had to kill two bugs as well in the bedroom.
To top it off, we asked Marilin in Spanish (as well as messaged Pedro in English, who we never saw) if it would be alright to leave our luggage at the apartment until 3:30pm the day we checked out. They both said it would be alright and that Marilin would be home at that time. When we came back at 3:30pm, no one was answering the door for us. We were in quite the panic state as we had a flight to catch, and it was only until 25 mins later when we saw Marilin walking towards the apartment with shopping bags.
So all in all, the worst Airbnb we’ve ever stayed in.