Location: close to nothing but park guell and the metro. If you are a tourist, book by the gothic corner for easy access to all the monuments & metro.
Housing:
1. It will take you 500 years to open the door. Too many locks that don’t work. We had to shove the key in and out to make it work. This was the “normal” way. Apparently. So be prepared to spend 30 minutes a day of your stay opening the door. Best part: when we asked for help to open the door the host was unavailable. She helped once or twice. Sweet lady but this review is solely on the housing.
2. Be ready for horrible showering hours. Other people are staying here as well. So the 3 people we were with plus 2 other people staying had to shower within that time frame. Spending the day out all day doing excursions made it tough.
3. This place is a cluttered dirty mess. Once you open the door you have to walk through a ton of cluttered junk in the dark to get to the room where the DOOR knob doesn’t even work. You have to push the door and pull to open it and the door has not lock.
Overall horrible experience. Also, be ready to have cash you need to pay cash for taxes before you leave. Not included in price.