Renting this apartment was a big disappointment, discomfort and mistake. I was deeply regret.
The apartment and the building were very poorly maintained and at my opinion there was not care to prepare the apartment in advance of receiving the tenant.
The entrance and the access stairs are extremely dirty. The air conditioning was broken, lights burned out and broken, blender and mixer and water heating device broken, bath towels extremely used and with stains from use by other tenants, rusty plate rack. The kitchen cabinet smelled of mildew and a cockroach nest at the base of the kitchen counter. Don't come here without an insecticide on hand.
The apartment was very dirty. The microwave was disgusting with so much grease I almost threw up to clean it. I had at my disposal a filthy/dirty broom and a dustpan. There were no cleaning cloths or dishtowels.
The plates, glasses, cutlery are all dismantled. Nothing matches anything.
I was informed that the apartment was 50 m2 and in fact is much than that. The host apologized and ended up returning me 10% of the amount I paid. I would rather have the space over the money.
I arrived on a Sunday and so I paid 30 euros to check in and even then it was very stressful. The person who attended me did not count on the possibility of delay in arrival and barely gave me the necessary explanations and made me sign a contract without having time to read it.
The apartment is in square in a very nice and safe location, which I think is the ONLY good thing about this apartment, but Barcelona is full of well located apartments.
The square is very noisy because it has several restaurants, a children's playground and right under the bedroom window there is a small stage and two benches fixed to the floor and people stay until late at night talking and laughing. After finishing the restaurants hours, late at night starts the cleaning truck
The noise goes until close to midnight during week days and on weekends until later. As the sealing of the windows is not good, the sound is very loud inside the apartment. The acoustic insulation is terrible and you hear the neighbors upstairs quite often
I report the problems to Lodging Team that was responsive in trying to solve all problens. They keep apologizing all time, refunded me 10% of the amount, send a cleaning service, bought new broom, water heater, fixed the lights, sent new towels, sent the maintenance person 3 times and the air conditioning technician 3 times too, they even offered 2 other apartments for me to exchange ( one without a review and other with a review 3.6!!) They were supportive, but I expected a more inspection to be carried out before handing over the apartment. I had lot of trouble during my stay. I do not recommend this apartment. I sent many pictures and register all problens at the airbnb chat.