Arina and the apartment management team maintained excellent and timely communications with us, to include directing us to luggage storage lockers at the management company’s office when early check-in was unavailable. We also appreciated the nice welcome basket of food and drinks.
The apartment’s location is central and excellent, within walking distance to most areas of interest such as the gothic quarter, Las Ramblas, Sagrada Familia, quirky Gràcia neighborhood, Passeig de Gràcia shopping, Boqueria market, and much more. Other, less touristy food markets than the Boqueria are also within an easy distance and worth exploring. The Placa Catalunya is only one block away and an ideal starting point for hop-on/hop-off bus tours or for stocking up on groceries at the supermarket in the Corte Ingles basement.
The apartment itself is as reflected in the photos: large, stylish, clean, comfortable, and with excellent air conditioning (great for this heat averse traveler). Other guests have commented on noise levels given the apartment’s location at a major intersection. While the traffic can be heard as background noise from the public rooms, it was perfectly acceptable. The bedrooms, which are at the back of the apartment, are not street facing and would generally be very quiet, I imagine. There is currently a large construction project underway on the bedroom side of the apartment, however, that resulted in significant noise during business hours (starting at 7 AM) during our stay. Fortunately, we were able to fully block out this noise with earplugs and a sleep noise app.
Despite the construction noise, we would still choose this apartment again.