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Ideal Youth Hostel


Carrer de la Unio 12, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
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Sydney
23 Oct 2009 | Trip type: Friends getaway

I got bedbugs staying at this hostel, an affliction I thankfully have managed to avoid over many years of staying in hostels. That should be enough to encourage you not to stay here. The hostel cleanliness, in addition to the matresses, was terrible. The bathroom wasn't cleaned in 5 days except for changing the bin, the floor wasn't swept or... more

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Munster, Germany
8 Oct 2009 | Trip type: Couples

We stayed there for 3 nights....it was horrible!!!! The toilet were always dirty and unhygienic, it was never cleaned during the three days we stayed there. Receptionists were unfriendly and partly aggressive (an indian coworker shaked his fist at me). They wouldn't return us the full deposit of 35 EUR, yielding us only 30 EUR. It was a bad experience... more

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Nuremberg, Germany
8 Sep 2008

we were there with school in july and in the beginning we thought: not that bad like it's described here.. yeah already the first day we started to kill bugs and we did this all week long cause we had no chance to change the room or even the hotel =/ the breakfast was really really really poor!! one "one-swallow-glas"... more

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1 of 5 stars
barcelona
18 Mar 2008

This place is the very deffinition of just providing the minimum. The staff was very rude, and the included breakfast was a peace of bread, a small cup of bad oj, and a small cup of bad coffee. they mask how dirty the place is by decorating it like a warehouse. the internet barely works and the comon room is... more

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1 of 5 stars
Florida
11 Oct 2007 | Trip type: Solo travel
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I stayed at this hostel for two nights until I couldn't take it any longer and switched hostels. Besides the place being dingy, typical of many hostels, that staff was unbelievably rude and dishonest. I saw the staff cheat, yell, and curse at many guests. The staff yelled both vulgar 'F words' (the four letter one and the homosexual one)... more

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3 of 5 stars
Berlin
6 Jun 2007 | Trip type: Friends getaway
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me and a couple of friends stayed at Ideal Youth Hostel for primavera sound festival and enjoyed our stay as we met a lot of cool people there from allover the world! more

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1 of 5 stars
Brisbane
5 May 2006
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This is the worst hostel I have ever stayed in. The staff were terrible and the cleanliness and condition of the place were even worse. The shower head sprayed every direction but down and flooded the whole bathroom floor, but even better it then flooded out in to the corridor which was carpet adn soggy for every single one of... more

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1 of 5 stars
Helsinki, Finland
26 Apr 2006
2
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The hostel was ok, except for the very poor hygiene of the matresses. They were very old, you totally sink in them and a little extra spice were the bedbugs and god knows what other creatures crawling in them. Me and bunch of other guests got bitten during the night, red itchy spots all over the body, though i mostly... more

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1 of 5 stars
Bristol, UK
15 Apr 2006
5
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1) Staff range between entirely apathetic to just plain rude. 2) Unisex / communal showers - that's right, guys and gals, no privacy even between the sexes. 3) Allegedly 'drinkable' water smelt of eggs (to be charitable about it!) - I insisted on using water purifying tablets but my travelling companions accused me of being too fussy. They were violently... more

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3 of 5 stars
Toronto, Ontario
23 Feb 2006
2
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The Ideal Youth Hostel was quite inexpensive, so we did not expect luxury. We were surprised to find that they only accept cash, despite the fact that we booked the reservation with a credit card online. The bathroom was sub-par; the toilet stalls were quite small and both showers on our floor had broken doors. It was all functional though.... more

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Carrer de la Unio 12, 08001 Barcelona, Spain