Agora Student Residence Hotel Barcelona Reviews

2 out of 5

I wouldn't exactly call this a hotel. This is clearly student residence and pretty average at that. The cheap price is basically "you get what you pay for. Pro's 1. Good communication to the city. The mostly male staff are very friendly and very helpful. They do there job to the best of their ability under what sweems difficult circumstances. Just one young lady seemed to lack professional communications skills with customers. 2. Ethernet internet works. Bring your cable just in case (and a sense of humour). 3. Air conditioning very good. In fact you could start your own fridge. Cons 1. The first thing to understand that this place is NOT tranquil as advertised by the bookers. When I arrived it was overran by some 50 to 60 children of between 10 and 14 with little supervision. I had to ask for my room to be changed after being "harrased" by my little next door neighbours. You will NOT find quiet here. Every evening it is overrun and one cannot enjoy the outside spaces in tranquility. 2. I have been in this room for three days now and the room has not been cleaned. The bedding is the same and I had to ask for new towels. 3. The gym is not exactly what I would call a gym. It is a room with free weights and a couple of stepping machines and a bike machine. I gym every day and have not come across a more poorly equipped exercise space. This "gym" has not been thought through. Considering you can hire bicycles cheaply around the city and ride in the sun, it is beyond me why you would want to do exercise on a stationary bicyle inside a spartan room. 4. The rooms are more basic than basic. Cheap and nasty unconfortable furniture and the bathroom does not have ventilation so it condenses and water stays on the badly designed sink frame. Verdict. Cheap and noisy. Requires a good dose of that unique local brand of imagination (I can qualify this as am a resident) in which you try a sell something cool but that isn't. Not recommended.

3 out of 5

The stay was ok, the personnel was very nice, the food is ok and the hotel is very clean and quite. Yet the lack of hot water during all Friday (6th) completely spoiled this evaluation. Bearing in mind that we checked-in on 5th and checked out on 7th we spent the most part of our stay without hot water…