This is the perfect place to stay if you are planning a trip to Barcelona.

We stayed here for five days recently. When we arrived Oliver met us at the door. He showed us where the nearest metro stop was located and told us where we could go to eat in the neighborhood.

The apartment is beautiful just as Oliver described it. It is well furnished and has everything one would need including a hairdryer, stove and a washer and dryer.

The day before we left, Oliver stopped by the apartment and was kind enough to offer to print out our boarding passes for us. (We had already checked in online and we printed the passes when we went to the airport, but we were impressed he took the time to come by and offer to print them for us.) He also arranged to have a Taxi pick us up the morning of our departure.

The apartment is up a single flight of stairs, but there is no lift. So travelers using a wheelchair may want to look elsewhere.

The Sarria neighborhood is very nice. It appears to be an upper middle class area and it was a pleasure staying here.

The day we arrived we had a very good lunch for a reasonable price at a restaurant around the corner (Ca La Tresa).

We found a Barcelona travel guide at the apartment which included a short section on Sarria. It mentioned that a local bakery (Foix de Sarria) has pastries which are so good folks come from all around Barcelona to shop there. So we went and bought some of the pastries and, although they were expensive, the pastries there were very, very good.

The metro stop is about 10 minutes away from downtown. This suited us just fine as we prefer to stay in a local area and travel to the tourist sites. (If you are going to travel thousands of miles to Europe, why would you want to stay with the tourists in the tourist district?)

All in all this was a great place to stay and we will stay here the next time we are in Barcelona.