This is not an Airbnb. There is no 'host'. Joan is a property manager who is using Airbnb as a platform for short-term rentals of a number of apartments he is managing in Barcelona.
Our main black mark was to do with communication for the start of our stay. We didn't have a phone and our emails to that effect - sent at lest a week earlier in one case - were ignored at least twice. So when we arrived at the address, no-one was there to let us in. We had to ask favours of the lovely people in the supermarket and the pharmacy downstairs to contact Joan, after which we still had to wait for hours until someone arrived. And then we were made to feel it was our fault that we didn't have a phone, we're told that he had waited for us and given up, and that he had been thinking of cancelling the booking! If this had been someone's real home, none of these would have been an issue.
The apartment is clean but small. It has a kitchen but no bench space to prepare meals. It has no sofa as advertised and would have no room for one anyway. The shower turns off whenever I turned around to get soap - sounds funny, but not so when it happens five times during a shower. The noise from the apartment above continues during the night and also from next door where a permanent resident does some pretty extensive throat clearing each morning.
Location is fabulous for the Sagrada Familia and restaurants, as well as the HOHO bus. Not so for gothic quarter, Rambla, the beach or Marina areas.
With all the Airbnb available in Barcelona, this will not be an apartment I will return to. Nor to Joan's listings, as he is not hosting his own home in the spirit of Airbnb. We have had some amazing Airbnb hosts on our trip his time, as well as apartments and rooms, but this wasn't a good experience.