I stayed at Francesco's apartment for 5 days and loved it. It was my first stay through Airbnb and renting a privately owned flat.

Francesco was very kind offering a lot of information before I even arrived and was very flexible allowing a quite late check-in. When he showed me the flat I could not stop thinking "how could you ever think of staying at a boring hotel", especially when he turned on the lighting of the terrace, which has a view over all of Barcelona that - and these are the words of a friend who I invited to the flat - other's would pay for just to have for a few minutes.

The apartment itself has two comfortable rooms, a smaller one which I would consider the bedroom as well as a larger one which I would consider the living room, and a very nice bathroom with a shower from which you can look at the sea if you like. Both rooms have independent air conditioning which can be used for heating, too. Everything was perfectly clean when I arrived and Francesco even provided me with some water in the small kitchen because he thought that it would be hard to find a supermarket that was still open at the late hour that I checked in. The kitchen - which is more like a cupboard with a fridge, a hearth and a sink - is probably not where you would want to cook dinner - you are in Barcelona however, go out and find a nice restaurant, Francesco did also recommend some great ones to me - but if you really needed to, you could and it is more than enough to store a bottle of Cava and some Jamon Serrano for evening drinks or providing for a nice breakfast on the terrace. For that you also have basic kitchen utilities such as a water boiler, toaster and so on at you disposal.

If you didn't get it by now: Go stay at this place, I really recommend it! I doubt that there is one in Barcelona which a better view, a nicer arrangement or a more friendly and kind host.