It's an ok home with easy access to pretty much all tourist attractions of Barcelona. The problem starts when you consider that it's presented as Airbnb Plus. It's not. Before this apartment, I thought that Airbnb manually screens everything they allow into Plus. Maybe they did when the apartment was first put together, but much time seems to have passed since then because now it's in a sorry state. We still managed to have a good time in Barcelona, so I have no grudge against the company owning the apartment. I just want Airbnb Plus to be something I can trust when choosing where to live hassle-free. Here is a list of all the issues we had with the home so you can decide for yourself:
1. Floor tiles cracking and flaking all over the place. Leaves parts on your feet.
2. Air conditioning drips water (more like pours - we had to put a bucket beneath it). Which happens when it has not been cleaned for a long time.
3. Small bathroom. No hooks in the bathroom. The door to the bathroom doesn’t properly close.
4. No blinds nor frosted glass on any of the (two) windows. They are basically either completely blacking out all light, or wide open to the street. In general, the apartment is just dark. The Airbnb photo is not representative at all.
5. Missing window in the bedroom door.
6. All the plants in the apartment are plastic. I mean, really?
7. As far as I am aware, Plus apartments are required to have a fully stocked kitchen - the one in this apartment had 0 besides the actual plates, cups, etc. No spices, no detergent.
8. Like others have mentioned - there is a building being erected just around the corner, and the construction work starts pretty early on weekdays.