Zenit Barcelona Hotel in Barcelona

This hotel is at it's best 3 stars. Beds are hard, pillow is flat and no sound proofing in rooms. All the street noises are getting into the room and you will wake-up from street noise.

I had some trouble at another hotel so I made a reservation the day before.

Good points
You can walk to the city center if you try hard.
There are many cafes and restaurants nearby.
Close to the large Mercadona.
Has a bathtub.
No bedbugs.
Relatively spacious room.

Bad points
When you take a shower, the water gets soaked outside and the gaskets around it have a lot of black mold.
The mattress coils creak and it's not very comfortable to sleep in.
Water in the fridge is charged for.
Overall it's old-fashioned.

It was good that I was able to make a reservation the day before, but it didn't feel like a 4-star hotel. I hope they renovate it or lower the price.

Hi all,
as much as I wanted to give this hotel 4 stars there are a few points which prevents me from doing so.
1st: wifi connectivty
2nd: missing store room
3rd: single plastic packages during breakfast

Beside those points the hotel would've gotten 4 stars.
Here's a bit more detailed view:

Generally
The hotel itself is very good looking and well decorated. Easy to navigate around and find whatever you're searching for. Stairs are a bit small but I never saw anyone use them so being alone, I had plenty of space there.
Sun terrace is nice to have, liked sunbathing there. Gym is small but good enough to get a bit of exercise. The equipment is good in quality and all well cleaned.
Staff was always friendly and could deal with anything quickly.
Despite having highly chlorinated tap water no free bottle water was offered in the rooms. Only at the reception was a water dispenser.

Room:
The interior of the room was nice and of good quality, feels being welcome entering.
Floor was carpeted in the hallways and wooden floor in the rooms, felt good.
The room had only 4 power outlets (if you calculate the one where you have to unplug the desk lamp) and just one per nightstand. No additional USB chargers installed. Too less in my opinion, as I travel with 2 phones and at least one laptop/other electronic device. At least two power outlets per bedside please…
Wifi was good most of the time, most… sometimes I had trouble connecting to the wifi or loading simple sides (not streaming anything) this happened at random times during the day, so not necessarily when everyone was using wifi.
There was only one wardrobe to put clothes in. And it was only for hanging coats etc. The one shelf in there was already filled with an extra blanket and a pillow. Even if I put those somewhere else the room would not be sufficient (and it would've been pretty high). A small cupboard at the desk did also not provide enough space to put all my clothes in there. So I just stored everything on the unused bed. (was there for 8 days)
you might wonder if a glass sink (fully glass except the 4 feet and the tap) is the right choice for material since you can see every scratch that was left by previous visitors or every stain of lime if the furniture was not polished (which it wasnt) but it was one of the best looking sinks I saw in a hotel and it was very functional (like in not to small, you won't splash yourself etc.).
The curtains let only very small lights pass, which allowed me to sleep without any issues plus doing naps in the afternoon. Haven't seen that in many. Still shutters ftw.
There was no option to put towels somewhere so that they won't be replaced even if you want to reuse them. Questionable with water issues in the area. Solved that by not having my room cleaned.

Breakfast:
The breakfast area was very nice to sit in, good ambiente and very comfortable chairs.
the size of the breakfast was ok/good considering the size of the hotel.
Lots of juices with good quality.
The fruits were fresh and very tasty, however unpeeled. Kinda messy to unpeal slices of kiwi to put them in your yoghurt.
Low selection on bread but good quality.
The fried eggs were perfect every morning but the bacon was only good on two days. On the other it was like put out of the pan when halfway done.
Sweet pastries were good, nothing special.
Jam, butter etc. was all packed in small plastic packages, common like 15 years ago. But come on, there are better and more enviroment friendly options around.

Overall I enjoyed the stay and if the negative aspects weren't on so critical topics like enviromental protection or wifi it would have gotten 4 stars from me.
So if those don't matter to you as much as to me, I fully recommend this hotel.
Thanks for reading