Nice apartment and patio and the location is fairly good, though Barcelona is quite large and you're always going to be far from something you want to do/see. We liked that our area was so pretty and quiet, though. The kitchen is small and has harsh lighting but the rest of the apartment is larger and more natural light. We used the patio a couple of times but because you can't use it after 10pm, it went unused a lot (plus, all the apartments around you look down onto the patio so it feels a little weird). We used the washer a couple times and laid out our clothes to dry on the rack and it went well. When we arrived for check-in, they were still cleaning so we had to wait about 20 minutes to really feel like we could walk around, start unpacking, etc.
We had two things that happened during our stay that really bothered us. It wasn't until we had finished checking in and the guy left that we saw we had a message (around 2:50pm for a 3pm check-in) from Arina saying the hot water was broken and wouldn't be fixed until the next day. So we were unable to take hot showers until the following evening. I know these things happen but we felt like they waited that long on purpose so we wouldn't back out and find someplace else to stay. Our kids were literally playing in the dirt earlier that day and we said, 'no worries, it's bath night.'
The 2nd to last night we were there, I was woken up around 5:30am by random Spanish phone calls that I sent to voicemail. I then noticed I had WhatsApp messages from 1am and at 5:30am saying we were making noise. We had all been asleep since around 11pm. Then I got a more aggressive text (in all caps) saying to stop making noise. We actually had a security officer come to our building, ring our doorbell and my husband had to go talk to him. I was left shaking and unable to sleep. Turns out, the sensor they talk about in the listing was picking up the rain outside and thought we were talking loudly or something. Arina said they would move it to avoid it happening in the future but that didn't help us feel good about our current trip.
After check-out, they gave us about 10% of our money back. When I polled the other adults on our trip as to how much we should have been given, 20% was the lowest anyone said so everyone felt a little insulted at the low amount.