PENSIÓN Colmenero in Barcelona

Avoid at all costs, unless you want to shower with cockroaches and sleep in a room so noisy you will barely get any sleep. The rooms were not too dirty, but definitly not clean.

When I first arrived, the owner did not speak English and refused to buzz me up to the unit. Fortunately, another resident of the building was able to open the door for me and I was able to get to the front door. I rang the door bell and waited, no response. I rang it again, this time a dog started barking, and waited again. It took me about 5 minutes to access the "hotel." When I got in, the place smelled like smoke and the owner, an old, not so nice, woman, who smelled like alcohol, told me to sit down and wait and complained that I rang the doorbell three times. I sat, and waited for 15 minutes and she mentioned that she was inconvenienced because I didn't show up at the correct time to check-in. I showed up at 4pm and the communication I received said to arrive between 3PM-10PM. Eventually, she begrudgingly got around to helping me and showed me the property which was dirty and uninhabitable. I couldn't stay there for longer than 5 minutes let alone a week. I gave her the keys back and asked for a refund, to which she said no. When I finally left I was relieved to get out of there, but needed to scramble to book another hotel. I asked around the local hotels but all were booked. So I was walking around Barcelona with all my luggage trying to find a place before night. Fortunately, I was able to find a hotel and booked it for the week. Avoid this place like the plague.

Description stated the rooms would have air conditioning and a balcony, upon arrival were informed the air con doesn’t work and the balcony we were promised is actually locked off with a big gate. Wouldn’t recommend.