We stayed for 3 nights at Diego's apartment in Poble Sec. We highly recommend both the host and the apartment. Highlights:
- Diego provides a book of neighborhood restaurant recommendations, which were excellent.
- The apartment is very quiet. To give you an idea, when we were there there was a neighborhood festival going on in the nearby plaza every night, so the noise level was much higher than normal. However, you could barely hear the crowd noise in the apartment. (Also, Diego kindly warned us about the festival far in advance of our stay and offered to help us find alternative reservations if we wanted).
- The location is awesome with the Poble Sec and Parel El metro stations very close. The neighborhood is not very touristy and includes a lot of good, reasonably-priced restaurants and cafes. It is maybe a 15-20 min walk to other neighborhoods of interest, such as El Reval and the Gothic Quarter.
- Diego's English is very good for non-Spanish speaking guests.
- The apartment itself is very cool and also very secure.
Overall I highly recommend both the apartment and the host.