Spent 4 hours hunting for a cheap hostel in Barcelona only to realize I had the wrong dates

So I was planning a trip to Barcelona for like 3 months and kept putting off booking a hostel. Finally sat down last Tuesday night to find a place under $30 a night. Spent 4 solid hours scrolling Hostelworld and Booking.com, cross checking reviews, looking at maps. Everything decent was either booked up or way over my budget. I was about to give up when I noticed my calendar was set for the wrong weekend - I had the dates mixed up by a week. Switched it and found a spot near La Rambla for $28 a night in like 10 minutes. Has anyone else done something this dumb with dates and wasted hours?

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ninah1015d ago

Nah, that's just part of the process honestly. You probably saved way more than $28 a night by double-checking.

sethr1115d ago

Literally spent an hour once trying to figure out if a $17 motel outside of Bakersfield had free parking or if it was a $5 add-on they'd hit you with at checkout. Turned out the parking lot was just a dirt patch with a shopping cart in it. So I called it a win and moved on.