pro:
1. Apartment is in a very local residential area in the center of Barcelona. lots of choices of local cafe and restaurants. walking distance to Sagrada Familia, casa Balto and casa Mila. If you walk a bit more, you reach the beach.
2. Apartment is spacious. two bathrooms is really convenient so the guy in our group does not have to share the bathroom with the ladies.
3. Host responses very quickly even after 10pm.
4. We are given 3 keys so our group were able to go out at different individual time.
5. The apartment is well cleaned.
6. The door monitor makes us feel highly secure.
Con:
1. The apartment is very old and facility needs renewal. Water sink in bathroom does not smell good. Shower temperature is very unstable and water pressure is low.
2. The towers were too old and there are stale stains which are a bit disgusting.
3. The biggest room heating is very unstable. you could wake up during midnight and found it completely cold.
4. One small room heating cannot be adjusted, it stayed maximum hot so my friend had to leave her door and window open. She couldn't turn the thermal control lower because that would impact other rooms.
5. The double bed is actually made of 2 single beds but there is no doubled mattress on it, only one piece of thin sheet.
6. Wifi is bad, we had to work during our stay. but it is impossible to make voice meeting. We all had to use our mobile networks as hotspot.
7. One of our friend wanted to cancel her trip. So I tried to contact the host within 48 hours to change reservation from 5 to 4 people. My request was rejected after 48 hours and the cost stayed for 5 people. The host asked me to understand. Guess I had to.
7. Before arrival I asked to check out 2 hours later. Because our flight is about 5pm. Request was refused saying that it needs to be cleaned right at 11am. We checked out on time and stayed downstairs for almost one hour. No one came to clean.
All in all I think the apartment does not suit young people traveling for work. But it can be recommended to tourists who fancy a local atmosphere and does not care so much of modernization of the facilities.