Angel’s place is located very centrally near Placa Catalunya. I stayed there with a friend and my boyfriend for three days. Before we got there we received the house rules multiple times and warnings about non-compliance, as well as a financial table for late check-in (past 8pm) and late check-out. So far so good. Angel was communicative in setting up the check in, which in the end my boyfriend who is also Spanish did for us. Unfortunately Angel was late to the check in by 20 minutes which messed up my boyfriends plans a little bit. But so far all okay. When we were there, the desk staff downstairs was super friendly, as were the neighbours. The apartment had terrible wifi, since we all have been travelling for a while we really needed to book flights and other things with the wifi, which we couldn’t. We asked Angel if he could tell us where the router is so we can hit restart, but he mentioned that it’s in the AC shaft and not accessible and that he would call the company to fix it. Shortly after I received the check-out instructions, no change of wifi, which was frustrating. We used our mobile data plans instead. I was also reminded multiple times to take our trash out, and dispose it into the bins in the street. We were only there for two nights so we barely had any trash. So no big deal, but then why did I pay for a relatively high cleaning fee? As far as other amenities are concerned, we had exactly two towels (medium quality) each and one for the floor as a bath mat. Fine for three days but longer than that I think we would’ve needed to do washing. There was also one pre packaged zip lock bag of one washing machine liquid, cleaning liquid and sponges. In the bathroom there was unidentifiable soap in the shower (we assumed it was body wash) and another one at the sink. That’s basically all there is, so make sure to pack all the hygiene products and maybe washing liquid if you need. There was no water, other than tap water either, so we did a supermarket run.
Generally I think this is a place you can stay in for a few days, but if you want to work from there or stay for a bit longer, bring your own toiletries and maybe towels, make sure you secure your own internet connection or find a place to work during the day somewhere else. I have stayed in a lot of similar airbnbs in Barcelona and this was unfortunately the worst one.