We stayed at Lia's apartment from December 15-December 19th. The experience was subpar and did not meet our expectations. I travel very often and always rent apartments. This is my fifth visit to Barcelona, and I have always stayed in apartments. This is the first negative review that I have written. The apartment is situated on the 3rd floor of a side street filled with bars that do not seem to close! We arrived on a Tuesday and left on a Saturday. Each night the noise got progressively worse. We had large groups of people talking, shouting, singing, dancing and yelling every night. The first night ended at around 1am, the following two at about 2am and the last night the revelry went on all night. Every night was a challenge to sleep, and we were unable to fall asleep until the noise subsided somewhat. The last night we were not able to sleep at all. The wi-fi was disastrous. It should be noted that there is no modem in the rented apartment. The wi-fi is in Lia's next door apartment, with a non-effective booster in the rented unit. We had two wi-fi bars at the front door, one bar in the living area and no bars at all in the bedroom. When we asked Lia if she could address the wi-fi issue, she informed us that we had wi-fi - one bar was "acceptable" wi-fi. According to her, if we got tired of waiting for pages to load, we could stand outside the apartment in the common area and get better coverage there. I slept on the couch. Lia only provided a very thin comforter. No sheets or pillows were provided. When I asked about pillows and sheets, she told me to use the throw pillows. Unfortunately none of them were particularly comfortable to sleep on, as they were not sleeping pillows. The next morning while attempting to take a shower, we noticed that the shower-head was broken, and it splattered large quantities of water in a horizontal direction, drenching the entire bathroom. Moreover, there was a space between the shower door and the bathtub, causing water to drip onto the floor. We asked Lia to please fix the shower-head. She brought in a new shower-head on our 3rd day. The shower-head that she bought did not work either - it only had one setting and it was essentially like showering under a tap. We told Lia about some of our issues throughout our stay. We had so many problems that we mentioned only the most egregious ones. She was either dismissive or argumentative. When I told her about the non-stop noise and our inability to sleep she angrily told me I should have knocked at her door in the early hours of the evening or called the police. She was indignant that we complained about the noise as it was outside of her control. Perhaps, but an accurate description of the location of the apartment would allow guests...