We booked the apartment due to the fact hotels were either fully booked or those that were remaining were excessively priced.
The photos are accurate and the property is located in a good location near to Sagrida Famillia.
It took around 90 minutes from the airport to the apartment.
The check in process was swift and simple and the correspondence before the trip was very prompt and clear with good advice as how to get to the apartment and the fees that would be incurred if you appear after 8pm or later.
Once checked in the apartment was clean apart from the bathroom which smelt heavily of damp and the apartment was a little bit 'tacky' in places with blown bulbs not being replaced etc but nothing too bad.
IMPORTANT READ:
We arrived back after dinner around 9.30pm and a group of 12 girls arrived in the apartments above us and the noise level went through the roof. Screaming, shouting, laughing, moving furniture and clonking shoes on the floor above (laminate).
We advised the hosts of this and they said they called above to tell them to keep the noise down - this was circa 10pm. We messaged again at 10.30pm as no reduction of noise had been made. The girls then left for a night out.
The whole apartment block is let by the same company and so you can be getting hen/stag do's in the apartments around you BE WARNED.
We decided in order not to ruin our break and to be stressing about the noise above on the Friday and Saturday night and the inevitable noise that would arrive at 2/3/4am when they returned back, we went to a hotel for 2 nights instead and only stayed the Sunday night after the Hen party had left. The bedroom is on the road so pretty noisy with traffic.
We spoke to the host about these issues and there was a complete denial that there had been excessive noise and that the girls left the apartment at 10pm and not 10.30pm, as the quiet time was from 10pm... funny that and also that the noise detectors in the room had not gone off! They must have been broken.
I emailed Albert (who emails you if you book) and he completely ignored my emails, I finally received a response after requesting a refund of 1 night plus costs to get to the hotel plus the texts/calls to his colleague. He refunded some money to his credit and that was the first admission that there had been a problem which was previously flatly denied. I raised a request for further funds via Air Bnb and he then ignored them which resulted in the reward of the rest of the money being returned. Fair play to Air Bnb.
My advice would be to stay at the Hilton, it's a bit away from the centre but it is only a 5 min walk to the metro and 15 mins to the Las Rambla, it's quiet, the host does not ignore you and it's cheaper!