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Alberg De Centre Esplai

El Prat de Llobregat · Spain

Alberg De Centre Esplai

Punk Score
18% GODAWFUL
High confidence 10,635 reviews
≈151 possibly bought
Seriously don't stay here please
3rd best in El Prat de Llobregat
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≈151 possibly bought
Suspicious-review evidence ≈151 possibly bought

≈151 possibly bought · 1851 top-rated reviews scanned

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We compare every 5★ review's word count against the global distribution. Hostels where unusually many top-rated reviews are suspiciously short — way under the typical length — start to look like the staff (or a boost-my-listing service) is padding the score with throwaway praise.

The detector flags reviews that are both top-rated and below a length threshold, then estimates how many of them statistically shouldn't exist. For this hostel we scanned 1851 top-rated reviews and 0% were suspiciously short.

Length z-score: 7.17. A z-score measures how far this hostel's distribution of 5★ review lengths sits from the global average, in standard deviations. 0 = perfectly typical. 1–2 = slightly unusual but within normal noise. 3–5 = strongly anomalous. Anything 10+ means the pattern is so far from the global norm that it's effectively impossible to get there organically.

This is a heuristic, not a verdict — it surfaces hostels worth a second look, not proof of fraud. Read the actual reviews below and judge for yourself.

  1. Confirmed paid 104 words 50%
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    • Reward tied to a review pay 20 euro for 2 minutes of taxi which was VERY frustrating

    Check-in was round-the-clock. Room was cold. Second level of these bunk-beds is NOT safe, so we couldn't place the child there as planned. No sockets near beds - only near the table. Beds have iron steps attached, which you hit at night, which is painful and very LOUD. We wanted place near the airport to walk after the flight. But when the metro closes (10 minutes earlier than should have in our case), you just cannot walk to that district, at least any legal and safe way. So we still had to pay 20 euro for 2 minutes of taxi which was VERY frustrating.

    Serbia
  2. Suspiciously short 42 words 50%
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    • Review-authenticity complaint too good to be true

    The price was good, but obviously too good to be true. Very noisy the first night, husband had to go tell a number of rooms to be quiet it was 11.30pm! Room was sparce, you could almost say like a prison cell.

    New Zealand
  3. Suspiciously short 206 words 50%
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    • Pressure to leave a review asked, but it was frustrating

    It was close to the airport, was clean, and had a cafeteria. The gray water is recycled into the toilet. Parking was free and surveilled. It was a huge facility and we couldn’t get two rooms close together. The staff wasn’t very forthcoming initially with info that we needed: it wasn’t easy to find the right door to enter from the outside, one room didn’t have windows just sliding glass doors without screens that led onto a shared balcony- so not safe enough to leave open, it was hard to figure out at first that you had to insert the room key into a slot in the room to make the lights work, one bed light didn’t work, the room was very stuffy and you had to open a fuse box and make sure no switches were flipped to make sure the air conditioning could turn on. The staff was friendly enough and told us these things once we went back and asked, but it was frustrating and would have been helpful to be informed when we checked in. Also the shower flooded the bathroom floor when you used it and there was no hand soap at the sink. Maybe a bit overpriced for a hostel.

    United States
  4. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Ottimo

    Italy
  5. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Bom

    Brazil
  6. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    打车到机场价格酒店无协议控制，酒店服务员说好最高价20殴（3~4Km），但酒店叫的出租司机乱要价，远高于这个最高价，（因为时间不允许，只能用这个车）。

    China
  7. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Everything

    Spain
  8. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Ottimo

    Italy
  9. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Accueil

    France
  10. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    NADA

    Argentina
  11. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Lokalizacja

    Poland
  12. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Fantástico

    Spain
  13. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    很棒的泳池與戶外空間、離機場很近、提供早餐、協助叫計程車去機場

    Taiwan
  14. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    まずここをホテルだと勘違いして正しい評価をしていない方がいますが、非営利団体のホステルです。個室に宿泊しましたが清潔で快適です。空港からメトロで容易にアクセスでき、ランドリーもあって大変助かりました。物価の高いバルセロナでは、このような施設はとても貴重です。スタッフも親切で、朝食付き、立地がいいのにリーズナブルなので、とても満足です。

  15. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    '

    United States
  16. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Great

    United States
  17. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    距離巴塞隆納機場近，空間寬敞，乾淨，安靜，價格很公道，靠近地鐵站附近。

    Taiwan
  18. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Excellent

  19. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    TODO!

    Spain
  20. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Bien

  21. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    L'accueil

    Switzerland
  22. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Todo

    Spain
  23. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    Multicultural

    Spain
  24. Suspiciously short 1 word 90%

    なし

    Japan
  25. Suspiciously short 1 word 100%

    Excelente!!

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