Hostal Rio De Castro Barcelona

Recent Reviews: 21

• User:DmitryB727

  Trip type: Solo travel

  A decent option to sleep over.

  03 Nov 2025

  In fact, it was the cheapest option to stay in my own room in Barcelona on my flight cancellation dates. Of the good: the room is very clean, the bed is comfortable, there is tea and coffee and water in the lobby. The bathroom with shower and toilet is separate, designed for all rooms on the floor, but clean enough. Hot water pressure in the shower is good. Very pleasant and friendly staff. In general, for 1-2 nights cheap stay here!! I note that I am located in the center, the bus to the airport is 12 minutes by foot.In fact, there's nothing big and serious that makes being here unpleasant. But there are little things that, let's just say, reduced the comfort of the stay: the door creaked hard, which is not very pleasant for the other guests at night; the bathroom smelled of tobacco; the Wandzione was hanging directly above the bed and I couldn't get it set up without it blowing on it. So I had to sleep without air conditioning. And you can't open the window because it opens to the patio where the other guests are sitting. That's why the hostel definitely deserves its 8 points, but it falls short of 10... Originally submitted in Russian on www.tripadvisor.ru. View originals.

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• User:John C

  Trip type: Family

  Never again

  09 Jun 2023

  The fact it is close to Poble Sec metro is a plus point. Having to lift a heavy bag up to first floor was not. There is no lift. I paid sales/City tax when I checked in. I was later told I had only paid for one person ( I had my son with me) I argued the point but with my limited Spanish and his limited English , it was a struggle. He got someone on the phone who demanded I pay 20 Euros now. I offered to sort it out following morning, but he kept demanding. This was 1030 at night after a day of travelling. So I threw the money down and went to bed. Room overlooked main street so was quite noisy and the curtain didn't do a good job with the light.I didn't mention the 20 euros as same man on reception when I went out. When I got back there was a lady. She called me over and gave me 20 euros and an apology The WiFi was good.There is a supermarket next door with poor reviews, so I gave that a miss.Round the corner is Jespac supermarket which looks small but is quite big inside.Would I stay at this place again?No chance !

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• User:driodd

  Trip type: Solo travel

  Very unprofessional. Cancelled the accommodation the day before

  12 Apr 2022

  Most untrustworthy place to book.Booked via hotel.com since January, the property cancelled the accommodation the day before I fly. Clearly overbooked as no rational reason for the cancellation. I'd advice to avoid to not get stressed.

• User:FernandoRamoa

  Trip type: Couples

  Greatest location

  30 Apr 2019

  The fact that it's located literally across from a metro station makes it one of the best in town, cosidering the burden of having to drag luggage!Also, it's much more quiet than say the goth village and the noisy narrow passes, restaurants and pubs of the custom nightlife

• User:701mats_

  Trip type: Family

  Dreadful!!

  15 Jul 2018

  The nice girl in the ”reception” is not to blame for anything in this review. Actually, me and my daughter felt sorry for her, has she had the unpleasant position to give this awful dump a face. We went for a weekend trip visiting my oldest daughter who lives in Barcelona. I choosed the hostel because it’s centrally located and we just needed a place for two nights sleep. That was a terrible mistake....The rooms are just horrible, with outdated furniture and beds that should rise complaints from a soldier in field. The AC is probably from the early 80:s and the smell...I suppose, as it’s a wellknown problem i the damp and warm city of Barcelona, that the rooms are heavily under attack by black mold; hence the awful smell of cheap perfume in the room. Actually, I found out, was the smell coming from the AC so they had probably installed some chemical agent in the AC to cover up from the smell of black mold. I guess it’s damaging for your health to stay there.After 20 minutes I found a free room at a very good hotel in the neigbourhood.Whatever U do when going to Barcelona: never book a room at this dreadful so called Hostel!! But don’t blame the nice girl in the reception. She’s only doing her job... Aida A, Director de Relaciones Públicas at Hostal Rio de Castro, responded to this review Dear guest,We are really sorry you had so bad experience with us. We are new we this hostel and we are trying to do our best, the beds are almost new, maybe for you too hard, the furniture is also new, but it has an old style because we thought it suited the room. We apologize because in effect the AC of your room didn't work, but now it is fixed, you could have told us and we could have offered you a solution (changing room or calling a technical), Off course the AC do not through chemical agents, we would be on jail! We use a perfume for the cleaning of the room, we understand you didn't like the smell, but you have a nice window in you room and you may ventilate the room without problem (or you could have told us and we would not use the perfume if you prefer).We really appreciate that you value the attention of the personal because for us this is also very important. We understand you didn't have a good time in the Hotel, that it wasn't what you expected maybe, but we think you have a done a very rude evaluation. At least you didn't complaint about the cleaning that for us is of the most importance and of the personal attention. In booking we have been doing great progress, as new owners we entered a place that was not very good valued and had a lot of problems, but from 2 months on, we have had in average good and nice opinions. We send you our warm regards, Hostal Rio de Castro

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