Ella and Tomas were very nice people, the place is very affordable (considering it is in Gothic Quarter) and the location is fairly close to the beaches.
However, an event happened which makes our stay far from ideal: the hosts decided to THROW A PARTY on the second night without any notice in advance (that is, before we checked in).
There was no mentioning of it from the moment I booked the place until the very moment we arrived, then we were informed that they would host a party the second night from 7pm-11pm. (we would cancel the stay if we knew this in advance.)
We were expecting a small, private party, but turned out close to 15 people showed up and (of course) the whole thing lasted until 2:30am WITH LOUD MUSIC. We planned to visit a fairly faraway attraction the next day so we decided to sleep early, but we ended up having no choice to sleep until basically 3am in the morning.
Some further problems:
(1) The door is essentially two very thin slides of wood and cannot be locked from the inside. Now imagine there are 15+ tipsy people just outside of your door who dance and shout;
(2) There is only one bathroom. Under normal circumstance, it would be totally fine. But the night when the party took place, we could not take a shower or even brush our teeth, because the party guests kept knocking on the door;
(3) Ella and Tomas remained very well behaved during the party, but I cannot say the same about some of the party guests, who got very rude when we tried to walk past them and get some water from the kitchen (for god's sake);
(4) While some basic tidy-up was done immediately after the party, the wine glasses were not washed until 24 hours later which stank.
I consider myself a reasonable person, and every time I use Airbnb I would respect the culture of the hosts and their customs. However, we did pay an amount of money to stay there (don't see us as customers, see us as clients), and we expected a lot better than this.
Again, I don't wish this review to be personal: Ella and Tomas were indeed very nice and offered to give us some tips regarding Barcelona. However, I regrettably have to give a negative feedback for our stay because of the event.