Barcelona Hostel Reviews

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Location: This hostel is located in Collserola Park.  It was about a ten minute metro ride from the main street of Barcelona, La Rambla.

Price: 10€ per night for a room with ten beds

Meals:  Breakfast is included in the morning; it is a great free breakfast including: Toast, cheese and meat, juice and coffee, cereal and milk, a piece of fruit, and a pastry with chocolate. The hostel contains a restaurant/bar/cafe with many options, the prices are pretty reasonable.

Kitchen: All guests have access to a public kitchen in the restaurant on the grounds, the kitchen includes a refrigerator, stove, sink, toaster, and microwave.

WIFI: Only in the main building/reception area, but I was able to access it from our room.

PROS: This hostel is a non-profit, and the staff is mainly adults with mental disabilities.  They are very pleasant and friendly.  As mentioned, you are on a national park so you almost feel like you are camping.  The hostel is huge, made up of several different buildings. It contains a swimming pool, which was quite large.  The location is amazing, the common areas consist of: a deck, several lounge rooms available to every guest in all the different dormitory buildings containing books, couches, and chairs, several picnic areas, and table and chairs available to everyone near the café.  The rooms contain a small light next to every bed, and every row of bunk beds was separated by a wall from the others, which allowed more privacy and the ability to have light if others were sleeping. (not common in other hostels) The surroundings are amazing, a lush forest surrounds you, and we frequently saw wild pigs walking around near the hostel!  The main plaza of the city was only a short metro ride away.

CONS: The rooms contain no AC, and have a cabin feel to them. We woke up the first night to wild boars making loud noises outside of our window, but this is to be expected while staying in the forest, and was quite entertaining for Matthew to watch in the middle of the night. Also, the walls are quite thin, and the large rooms seem to amplify the sound of every noise, so if you are a light sleeper, this may be an issue. The bathroom offered no privacy, it was a large bathroom with no lock, it contained one stall with a toilet, one stall with a shower, and third containing both a toilet and a shower.  Two sinks were available.