About an 8 minute walk to Diagonal subway station makes it fairly easy to get around BCN by metro. And if you don't mind walking to Sagrada Familia, that's only 30 minutes away. Plenty of restaurants and cafes within a few steps of the apartment and the hosts provided a long list of restaurants to chose from. The apartment was very clean and fairly quiet although the traffic can get noisy. The hosts accommodated our desire to check in early which was great and both check-in and check-out were very smooth.