Urbany Hostel Barcelona

Everything is perfect except the washroom in the room. The design of the washroom is bad so that lights dont turn on when you are showering and the shower takes quite some skill to master. Any other thing is perfect, especially there is a kitchen where you can cook food. Location is great, it is near El Clot renfe station which you can reach the airport by train, also near metro station of Clot and two stations away from Sagrada Familia.

Rooms: In our rooms, we had bunk beds, which were hard to get on and off, so you have to be very careful. The air-conditioning can not be altered, meaning the temperature is either hot or cold, not in between. When someone has had a shower, a wet patch appears on the floor and is kept damp for a while. Bathrooms: The bathroom has an automatic light, meaning when you're in the shower, it turns off. You can turn it back on by slightly opening the door, but it doesn't long. The shower is operated by button, so you do have to keep pressing it. Service: Not all rooms get a tag that they can put on their door to deny door service, meaning that they can just enter your room. With this, all of us had at least one item of food stolen, whether it was open or not. They emptied the rubbish bin in the bathroom and left items that were clearly rubbish on the floor. Apart from this, breakfast in the morning was nice and they staff were polite and tried their best with English. Location: The views of the hotel are lovely and you can see the sea from the rooms. From the hotel you can walk to the beach which is approximately a mile, there is a mall nearby either public transport available in the form of busses and the metro. There are little shops nearby where you can purchase drinks and snacks and the people are lovely.

The worst experience. Smelled like sweat in the room. dirty sheets with stains and filthy bathroom floor. No fresh air, hot during the night, unsafe neighborhood during night with guys on the street shouting at you. unfriendly staff. Felt more like a prison. They couldnt make me happy with another room because the stained beds where there as well.

We took 55 children on a school trip, rooms were very clean with secure lockers and en suites, showers were hot and powerful, great central position close to Metro stations and plenty of food shops plus a great bakery within 5 minutes walk. Communal areas such as the kitchen, buffet area and outdoor space all clean and well maintained. Staff incredibly helpful and Reception is manned 24 hours

This hostel would have been fine if it wasn't for the unbearably hot rooms . We told the staff that our room was suffocatingly hot and they told us there was nothing we could do besides deal with it . They wouldn't even let us open a window, made it incredibly difficult to sleep and was overall a wildly uncomfortable overnight experience with having to wake up covered in sweat. The staff are uninterested in the guests and will not help you with any problems.

WAY TOO MANY PROBLEMS!! DO NOT GO THERE Summary: Shady, very probable illegal paper to wave rights for opening the window, scorching hot and freezing AC First, the card to open the door did not work properly for multiple people. They fixed that only after some days. Then the AC was running all the time with no way to turn it off in the room. They taped rhe eletrical fuse box too. It is November and the AC ran like its 30° Degrees. I had to tell them everyday multiple times to shut it off because somehow it got turned on again and again. It was 15 degrees outside and the AC was blasting freezing air... On the last night it was the exact opposit. The AC ran ultra hot. The room got scorching hot, really unbearable to be in. The other guys already tried to tell them for 3 hours before i came back to the hostel. Even the whole hallway of the floor got heated to summer levels. I had to go 11 floors down to the lobby multiple times and argue with them for them to do manage to turn off the lava heated air spitting AC. Even then the room wad way to heat to get some sleep as it was already 10:30 PM. They also locked the window so we were trapped in the heat. I asked them if we could open it else it would be impossible to sleep in there. They would only agree if i had signed a really shady most definetly illegal paper which would have made me responsible for EVERY action that somebody did in that room. Like throwing something out the window EVEN DRUG ABUSE DONT GO THERE for your sake