Our host communicated effectively to enable us to find her apartment and we were shown in by her friend? who gave us keys and left with no time to show us around the apartment.
Not a problem but it would be a good idea for someone to spend some time to welcome guests in future and get them settled a bit because first impressions are always important.
The apartment itself is very nice and comfortable and very well located in Barcelona.
But we had a significant problem with the hot water system. It was not working properly from the time we first tried it but the host was able to tell us when I phoned that the hot water in the kitchen needed to be running at the same time as the hot water in the bathroom to function and if it had continued like that we would have been OK . It did function like that for the first 24 hours but then the system failed completely and despite being reassured on the phone that it would be fixed it was not while we were there and we spent our last 24 hours unable to have a shower and were only able to wash with hot water from the kettle.
The overall experience was good - it is a very nice apartment and all the other facilities were good - but the host needs to arrange a more personal welcome and make sure everything is working before visitors arrive.
I recommend the apartment but others who do book need to check everything out - as I admit we should have done - before whoever lets them in leaves them.