Primavera Sound - Foros

Just to make people aware of our experience so far. We, with friends as part of a special occasion holiday, booked a great looking apartment with swimming pool, through Friendly Rentals close to the forum many months ago well in advance of the festival. We've been twice before. Today, on our arrival, we were well and truly shafted by being told tall tales and moved to an inferior apartment in the noisiest, most dingy part of the city centre or being given the choice of cancelling and trying to book alternative accommodation today!

Eventually, we were offered only a bottle of cava as compensation. This has really put a dampener on our Primavera experience and we would like to share this as it may well happen to others.

ooops, that's a bummer.

My only advice is to, of course, ask for a good discount and, most of all, place an official written reclamation in theirs office.

http://goo.gl/maps/CjPf

Make every effort to find any review sites or similar and write strongly worded comments so you polute their Google search results. This seems to be the only thing people listen to.

Cheers guys. I've gotten over my initial anger, mostly, and our new apartment/area is not so bad. The rental company have given us a partial refund. However, we still have the nagging suspicion that they received a better offer for the apartment, hence us being denied it.

oh dear. A similar (but not as bad) thing happened to us last year. We had an apartment booked months in advance only for the rental company to cancel our booking about 5 days before the festival. It was a nightmare trying to find alt accom with PS and the champions league final being on the same weekend.

This year we stayed at Tryp Condal Mar hotel about 15 mins walk from the Forum. First time we've stayed near the festival rather than in town and i preferred it. Being able to walk up the road after a seriously long day is just bliss.