The hotel is great, clean and very affordable, it’s just that area of la Rambla is a bit sketch and is a mix between heavy tourism and homeless/druggie area. Lots of police force out, but you’re constantly reminded of it being unsafe and to watch your belongings. A very big police station is about half a Km down the road so that’s good. It’s more about Barcelona cleaning up their streets than the hotel’s problem and this seemed to be the case in many areas of the city, even the nicer ones. My friends were staying in the main rambla area and the plaza right outside their much more expensive hotel was the same…