Mario’s place is beautiful, not too far from the airport and in a great location. the neighborhood has so many little restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and businesses. you can step right outside and wave down a taxi. Las Rambla is only about a $10-$15 cab ride and i highly recommend going! Mario is very easy to get ahold of and has lots of recommendations for things to do and places to eat!
i do have a few complaints. our showers turned cold and the shower turned off on me one day. there was also still shampoo from the last person that had stayed before us in the shower as well. we got locked out one day because the key wouldn’t work for the door, however mario got right over to let us in. and lastly, we were told that Barcelona can have quite a bit of bugs and to keep the windows closed so we did, throughout our stay there were huge cockroaches. i highly recommend and exterminator.