This apartment is simply amazing. It is modern and stylish with an incredible amount of natural light. The kitchen is stocked with a toastie machine, a hotdog machine, a coffee machine and even a popcorn machine, as well as a gorgeous open flame stove top (this was gorgeous to cook on).
There is a small balcony which serves as a laundry room but the main balcony is huge; there is a lovely table where you can look over at the hills of Montjuïc or at the nearby church bell - it makes for a lovely image, so much so that it has become inspiration for some of our art. With regards to the church bell, it rings at 9, 12, 3 and 6, and a few more times on Sunday, if memory serves. The bell is loud but surprisingly didn’t cause a problem. Even in the rooms closest to it, with balcony access, it didn’t cause a disturbance.
The rooms. The two main double rooms are fantastic and the beds are fantastically comfortable. There is a huge amount of wardrobe space and I, in the one near the balcony, found that waking up with the natural light - the apartment gets the sun in the morning, not afternoon so much - was lovely. Whoever is in the smaller rooms should probably be allowed to contribute less to the rent. As rooms they’re fine but, especially with regards to the smallest as you enter the apartment, they’re not as good as the doubles, naturally. The one by the balcony (it doesn’t have a door to the balcony like the double but it’s easy to climb through the window) is the only room with a desk so if there’s a student with you this might be the room for them. This room has a really funky design - like a bunk bed for grown-ups - and tons of storage space. The smallest room doesn’t have much storage but there is a lot of storage space elsewhere in the apartment so that shouldn’t be an issue. It should be noted that the walls are quite thin and you can often hear much of what is going on in the rest of the apartment, especially in the two doubles and the bunk bed room. The benefit of the smallest room is that it is separate from the rest of the bedrooms and thus has more privacy.
Sant Antoni is a fantastic neighbourhood, full of bars and cafes and only a 15 minute walk from Plaça de Catalunya, which is the centre of the city. Along Sepúlveda runs the buses to the airport so it’s very simple to travel, simply get a bus from Plaça Espanya, a 10 minute walk up the street. Near the apartment are a number of metro stations. At most one minute away is Rocafort with Line 1, Poble Sec is around a 10 minute walk with Line 3, Sant Antoni is 5 minutes with Line 2 and Espanya is 10 minutes with Lines 1, 3 and 8 as well as Rodalies trains to take you to the rest of Catalonia (I would recommend Sitges). Only a 15 minute walk is Sants Station for national and international rail travel.
The host family are lovely people and are very willing to help with anything you need. They are very generous and caring and were fantastic to us, 4 terrified British student girls, during the Coronavirus pandemic. I can not recommend this apartment highly enough and hope you enjoy your time in Barcelona!