we booked these rooms as we have travelled quite a bit and like the idea of staying with local people and getting a feel for the place. Sylvie was lovely and very helpful but our stay in Barcelona turned into a nightmare that evening when we came home to go to sleep. we don't normally like using air-conditioning and had the windows open so we can get some fresh air but the noise from passers by and locals was horrendous,we couldn't sleep a wink and in the morning to make things worse there was major building works going on in the flat above which looked like they had been ongoing for a while and we were disappointed that we were not made aware of this. Constant hammering of the floor and noises were all we heard. We went out for the day and on our return I decided to put the air conditioning on but each of the rooms we were staying in had no air conditioning in them but only one unit in the living room so we had to leave our doors open in the hope that it would cool our rooms but then Sylvie got up and turned it down to night mode which made the whole point of trying to cool our rooms useless. why fit a unit in the living room and not the bedrooms as we didn't spend much time in the living room. I woke up in the middle of the night to turn up the air con only for Sylvie to wake up in the morning turn it off and open the doors alas to the noise and building works. I think Sylvie was concerned about the cost of electricity but i didn't feel comfortable with my family having our doors open in order for the air con to cool down our rooms while our host tiptoed around us closing the air-conditioning and opening the doors,we felt very uncomfortable with this. The next day got worse we had the builders put up a long ladder to remove the rubbish from the flat above and the skips arrived at 6.30am in the morning so again a restless morning. The apartment was very basic and the bathroom could do with a lock on the door which made my sons feel extremely uncomfortable not knowing who was going to come in. The apartment is located what seems to be downtown and because of the large hotel opposite prostitute's were often seen and heard at all hours of the night. If your thinking of staying here Google it first we paid a lot of money and we're really disappointed. we also have lots of photos of the building work just in case.