We were rather disappointed by this place. The location really can’t be beat; it’s very close to Diagonal station and there’s a taxi stand a block away at Casa Fuster. Gran de Gràcia has a much better than usual late night grocery and tons of shops and bakeries. And the kitchen was pretty nicely outfitted for an Airbnb. But the apartment is in a sad dingy office building with a lot of doctor offices and the apartment itself really needs updating. Cracked wall tiles, moldings that are water damaged, sad old cabinets, and heat that just doesn’t work (we called once about the control, for which we bought new batteries to no avail, and they were nice enough to come out and spend the hour it took to figure out how to program a new one, but even the the heat never stayed on long enough to warm the place up much). We had the soap and shampoo dispensers just crash off the wall and break all over the floor in the middle of dinner one day. It’s just old, painted a gloomier gray than the photos, and there is no real separation between the bed and the sofa though the pictures make it look like you can close the doors on the bed alcove (it’s halfway open to the side so all the doors do is make it hard for one person to get out of the bed). The worst issue was noise— the bed is up against the elevator wall and it’s just endlessly noisy. Ironically there’s no street noise at all despite being on a very lively street. Management also seems a little uncoordinated. We had a cleaning person barge in at random by mistake (I worked from the apartment so that was alarming) and the scheduled cleaning person had a time on her calendar different from what management emailed me, so she showed up hours early while we were still waking up (although she at least had the decency to ring first). I don’t usually whine about service and just want a comfortable place to stay, but this felt way too expensive for all this. All our other stays in Spain for our three months there were much nicer and cheaper.