The location is wonderful as it takes only a minute to walk to the great subway system or 25 minutes to walk to the heart of Barcelona. Gracia is a very nice and safe neighborhood, lots of restaurants and bars and some nice shops -- nothing like downtown. The apartment is on the 8th floor of the apartment building. Very quiet and safe. Sandra was very quick to respond to questions before we left for Spain as well as when we were there. The only issue we had -- and it is a serious one -- is that Sandra has at least two apartments in the building and the so-called "penthouse" apartment that is shown on AirbnB and the one we expected to get isn't the one we did get. It certainly felt like a bait and switch situation, inadvertently or not. I would just recommend that you make sure that you get the apartment that is shown with the large outdoor porch and modern kitchen. Even the "penthouse' apartment is really what you expect a penthouse to be. Technically it might be because it is on the top floor of the building but it isn't some glamorous rooftop apartment.