If you have not read our reviews before, please understand the following. We try to make available to those who follow us, information that we would like to have at our next rental. Maybe it will help fellow travelers with packing decisions. (What pans, what blankets, etc.) We try to state facts while not expressing criticizims. Ralph manages this rental apartment and others. This one is in a great location, steps from a Metro Station and important bus routes. During a Metro strike, we could easily walk the Barcelona's principal train station (Sants) for day trips out of the city. The neighborhood has several fruiterias and a couple of nice grocery stores. A excellent major multivendor public market (Hostafrancs) is less than 2 km distant. The apartment was airy so we did not have to use the a/c. The tv in the living room is modern and allowed us to connect our laptop to watch movies and some streaming content. The main bedroom is roomy with lots of closet space. We did not use the second bedroom. The kitchen came with plenty of dishes, utinsels, pots and pans. Unfortunately none of the pans had lids. If you want to steam rice, vegitables, or fish you should bring with you some means of covering these pans. We carry flat cooking disk like pans that we use for this. We have often found this lack of lids in AirBnB rentals. The refrigerator/freezer is large, modern and spacious. We were provided with coffee discs for the coffee maker and jam for our first breakfast. There is a dish washer, which we did not use, and an oven, which again we did not use. The shower is equiped with a thermostatic mixer that is designed to prevent scalding. It does this a bit too well. The shower was warm, but could not be adjusted to a temperature that we would have found comfortable. The shower curtain was too long for the shower so one had to be careful not to cover the drain. The apartment could use a “user manual”. We had to google search for manuals to locate the lint trap for the clothes dryer as well as it's moisture collection tank. This moisture tank is brilliant for an in city apartment, but is unknown in North America. The living room door overlooks the street and is usable as the source of ventilating air. The door can not be reliably closed. With some invention it is manageable during the Spring season. We have our doubts about the very warm or cold months. When it is upgraded we hope that provisions will be made for ventalation as well as insulation. The bedroom doors to the balcony have been upgraded to double glazed modern doors. These provide good heat, cold and sound insulation, but limited opportunity for ventilating. We found the double bed (US standards) very comfortable and had excellent sleep there. We liked this rental very much. We do this a lot and it...