Apt is owned/managed by a rental agency, therefore it is poorly taken care of - as nobody ever actually lives there. As a result, the little (important) things that make it an AirBnB experience and feel like being in a home are just not there. Thus, the value/rate paid (equivalent to being in a hotel downtown) is lacking. The only reason we rated it with 3 stars was the the location (very close to historical downtown, 1.5 blocks from subway, 5 blocks from Sagrada Familia, 1 block from supermarket, cafes, etc.), friendly agency staff, comfortable bed, elevator access, and quiet location.
Examples of things that made our stay experience poor:
1. the heating vents spew lint/dust everywhere (after 24hr of use it felt like the apt had never been cleaned)
2. the kitchen drain has likely not been cleaned in some time, so it gets clogged easily, and if not used for 12hr, starts smelling like sewer - as in the morning when you wake up
3. the kitchen faucet head is likely clogged with mineral, so it squirts water in awkward directions wetting everything when trying to use it.
4. the shower has no drape, and the shower-head can only be pointed forward (vs down), so everytime you use it, you make a wet mess of the bathroom
5. the kitchen has nothing in it to make a meal (oil, salt) or clean up (soap, paper towels, linen, knapkins, foil, ziplock bags, etc.). They try to compensate this by giving you a welcome baggy with some coffee pods, tea bags, and couple salt-pepper sachets, 1 cleaning sponge and a single pod for the dishwasher...).
6. the curtains were never trimmed so 1/3 of their length piles on the floor, plus you cannot use the thicker ones as they do not slide beyond a foot from the wall... (purely decorative and not functional)
7. the external window electronic "light-blocking" shades do not close well and don't block the light at night.
8. the cleaning crew (1-2 people) that comes in between rentals gets 3-4hr to change linens, and do a quick vacuum and mop, so it seems clean at first, but there is plenty of dirt in the harder to reach corners and non obvious places.
Will not be coming back here, not to the standard of an AirBnB experience, and hard to recommend in its current state.