Expo Hotel Barcelona

The location is amazing

The rooms are so outdated

With or without leaving the notice on the door the cleaners never came knocking (we left the room between 10am and noon). They did a great job of tidying up the room each day and replacing anything we may have used. We only got 2 paper cups to make tea/coffee so it was important to get a fresh set each day. The tv is wall mounted and you can turn it to face you from bed. The main entry to the building smells really nice, and has many elevators to take you up to the other floors. There is a supermarket right outside the entrance. The hotel is within walking distance to 3 different metro stations, one which will take you to/from the airport. Or you can walk there to grab a cab. There is a place to eat directly opposite the hotel or a Burger King to the left of the main entrance over the road if you don't want to walk far (plenty of other options the further out you go). We didn't try the other facilities so I can't write anything else.

Firstly, the beds are very hard (and on wheels), if you enjoy a firm bed then this won't be an issue for you. If you feel like watching a bit of tv but you only speak English, goodluck finding anything to watch. Basic channels like BBC world didn't work. We found the curtains to be really dusty (possibly because they are linen). I even tried shaking them on the balcony. The dust from the floor covered our black socks with white fluff but walking without socks is hard when the tiles are ice cold (complimentary slippers would be a nice touch). There is no lock on the toilet door of that's important to you. You don't get a regular sized reusable mug to make tea/coffee but instead a small paper disposable cup. And finally the MAIN issue, there is little to no soundproofing. We could unfortunately hear what other people were doing at night (yeah, you guessed it), thankfully for us it didn't last very long. We could hear when the cleaners moved the furniture in the early morning (which woke us up every day from 6am onwards). The light from the main hall can be seen from inside the room so I can only imagine the sound is travelling under the door too. Plus the door to the balcony is not sealed so we could hear the general noise from the street (we were up on a high floor). And the wind even came through the gaps whistling and moving the curtains (which made the room very cold).