Great location: a quiet residential neighborhood, 5 min walk to the beach, 8-10 minutes walk to the subway station Poblenou (another 20 minutes to get to Plaza Catalunya - about 6 stops). A couple of large grocery stores are nearby, also a few 24h mini markets are less than 5 min away. Many restaurants within the walking distance, as well as fruit stands, bakeries, ice-cream shops, etc. The host is extremely helpful and accommodating. Very clean apartment. No elevator in the building, so if you can not drug your luggage a few flights of narrow stairs and do not have anybody available to do it for you, you may be quite inconvinienced. Overall, I recommend the place, we got a bit more what we paid for:)