This appartment is even more beautiful and spacious as the pictures show. It is on the Principal floor, which, on these Eixample buildings, was the noble floor. You will not believe the height of the ceilings and the fantastic refurbished doors and ceilings. Everything is in perfect order and clean. The veranda is a great place to enjoy a glass of wine and read and it brings a fantastic light to the whole space. We were there end of November and the heating worked well with the exception of the bathroom where the small heating equipment for towels was insufficient to warm the room, although we kept it on, it was always cold.
Maribel welcomed us, she was there when we arrived and was both nice and useful. Antonio came to introduce himself a few days later and make sure everything was allright. They're great.
This was our seventh visit to Barcelona and for us, that Eixample neighborood is ideal. The Rambla de Catalunya is on one corner. You will find lots of restaurants and terraces there and shops. Passeig de Gracia is on the other corner, lots of restaurants there as well and high end boutiques. You can walk from the apartment to all major attractions and interesting neighboroods of this marvelous city.
There is a great gym called DIRseven on the small passatge Domingo, less than 100 meters from the entrance of the building, where you can either pay everytime you go or take a month subscription (we did, being there for 2 weeks, it was worth it). They have an outdoor pool if you go in the summer and an indoor one as well and offer spa treatments.
The only downside to the apartment was for us an important one: the noise at night kept us from sleeping as well as we needed. Valencia is a four-lane street, very busy from 6am til 11pm as it is used to reach one the main artery of the city, the Diagonal. The bedroom has one window on Valencia and even if we closed the outside and inside shutters, the noise from the traffic was terribly loud. And drivers here honk their horns a lot! The other bedroom window is on the small Passatge Domingo which looks quiet but becomes animated and very noisy at 1am on weekends. There is a bar, the Hyde, and partygoers go outside to smoke and hang outside. On weekends, we were awake at 6am because people were screaming, laughing, banging on the trash bins. Earplugs didn't do it. The windows really need more isolation to make this place absolutely perfect because everthing else was.