7 day stay at Apartment Park Güell lll - is a great little place for a small group of friends or small family.
Getting there it’s in the Gracia district up on the hill behind the main city, 2mins from Park Güell (€10euro entry/Adult 12+). It is on the 2nd floor with no lift, approx 50steps) so you’ll get a free mini workout too. It’s a 12min uphill walk from the Metro L3 (green line) - Lesseps station (downhill when you head into town :) or €15-20 taxi from Barcelona Sants Station (the main one in Barcelona). From the apartment it is downhill into the city, if getting back up to the apartment sounds tiring, don’t worry too much - use the Av. del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntanya route home and it has 3 escalators going up (they seem to stop at 10pm). Plenty of corner dairy type and food shops (supermercats) within 10mins. Also plenty of souvenir shops with the usual offerings. Gaudi 4D experience is 6mins away, they do a 4D and Park Güell ticket for €17 so a small discount for doing both if you are on a budget.
Inside the apartment there are two bedrooms one with queen size bed and a large wardrobe cupboard, the other with a bunk bed (one bed above the other). There is also a sofa bed that could fit two but would be a squeeze.
Kitchen is small but functional - note no oven, but it does have fridge/freezer, microwave, stovetop, washing machine, toaster and coffee machine. Usual cutlery, glassware, plates, pots, frypan and a few other useful utensils. It also has some reusable plastic containers, so we could keep leftovers in the fridge.
Bathroom includes toilet/basin/shower they are all in there its just really compact, the shower is tight but gets you clean and water was hot. - you need to open an external window and the internal window above the toilet to let the steam out.
Smart tv has Netflix but you’ll need to log in to use it, TV worked well, loads of channels if you speak Spanish (we couldn’t find English channels so watched you tube and used our own Netflix account).
Some great views of the city from balcony and second room - especially at night. You might even see some green parrots and the obligatory pigeons.
Noise - There were a few dogs barking from the neighbours but closing the single glazed windows quiets it down. There is quite a lot of furniture noise when moving the chairs around at mealtimes which goes through the floors to neighbouring apartments, we put felt feet on the dining room chairs and that helped a lot, just need neighbours above to do the same ;)
Privacy - At the time we stayed there were no curtains as it was just renovated and newly listed the day before we arrived, but we could use the security roller blinds in the bedrooms, we did buy some curtains for the living area as adjacent apartments across the street could look straight in on us.
Rubbish - in Barcelona there are large public on street recycling and general waste hoppers. We just took rubbish and recycling out with us when we went out to explore.
24 Hr emergency number - great service, the team came and fixed the shower and sink problems the very next morning.
A couple of things that would make the stay even better was having a tea towel for drying dishes (note there is no dishwasher) we brought one at a local shop along with some pegs (our clothes got blown off the clothes rack on the balcony and we had to collect them off the street), a kettle/jug to boil water would be great, we used the microwave instead. And lastly an iron would have been great, the irony being there was an ironing board :p
Fabulous hosts, excellent communication, very helpful, I think we ironed out the issues ;) best wishes to the next guests and thanks to Home n Fun for the stay :)