Black Swan Hostel

It’s a very short minute walk to the Arc de Triomf. The hostel has an elevator (very important for me). Lots of restaurant nearby.

It’s not very close from the Catalunya plaza. I had to take a taxi from the plaza who charged me 17.40 euro.

The staff was so nice, shout out to CD and Olivia! Free day tours were excellent. It felt like a cozy homey hostel where you can go down to the kitchen and just talk to people. Lots of solo travelers, so it was easy to get to know people. Also, the staff helped me when I messed up my bookings, thanks!

There could've been more activities to bring the hostel people together. Bar tour's bar wasn't that nice. Lockers are old and made lots of noise (felt sorry for the people during the night when I had to use my locker). The free dinner was usually cheap bad food and you got just little amount of it.

The hostel was very clean. Good computers to use for free. Fresh clean bedding and beds were comfortable and spacious. It was great having a privacy curtain in each bed with a personal light, plug and usb port. The lockers under the bed were big but very loud. There was a different event hosted each night but we did not feel a particularly social atmosphere.

There was not much space in the rooms between each bed and particularly in the bathrooms. When sat on the toilet you feel squeezed in. Vending machine and pool table broken. Door was extremely loud and stiff. Key card for the door stopped working a number of times to access our room and we had to keep going to reception to get it sorted.