My wife and I stayed at Helmut and Gerard's apartment for 4 nights. The location is perfect especially if arriving from the airport by train to Barcelona Sants station as it is literally a 5 minute walk and easy to find. Gerard met us and gave us a rundown of the apartment and the local area which was very helpful including his tip on the local coffee shop, Bar-Celona which was excellent. We had our morning coffees and breakfast there every day.

The apartment is located near 3 different metro lines within 5 minutes walk making it very handy for getting around to all the sights. All the amenities work well and it was great to be able to wash our clothes. Gerard was a great host and extremely helpful. My wife needed a hair dryer and he bought a new one and dropped it off after we contacted him which was great.

On our first night we had a meal in as we were suffering from jet lag. I went out at around 8pm and the wine, butcher, bread shop and grocer were all open which was great. We cooked dinner and ate on the lovely balcony.

We would thoroughly recommend this beautiful apartment and would love to stay again next time we are in Barcelona.