The apartment was clean and relatively modernized. It was basically equipped, the bare essentials only really, but wasn't lacking anything important. The neighborhood is fantastic! You can stand anywhere and be surrounded with good to great restaurants. It was also very centrally located and walking distance to lots. We walked down to the Gothic Quater and even walked home from Sagrada Familia which was about 1.2 miles or 2 km. The host was very quick with responses through the messages. We did arrive aboutan hour earlier than expected and we were unable to get a hold of him to let is in the apartment. We just grabbed a couple appetizers and a drink from one of the restaurants downstairs, crisis averted.