All I can do is agree with what everyone else has said in their reviews. From arranging a taxi to collect us from the airport to his warm and informative welcome about the apartment, Gracia and Barcelona, Xavi is the perfect host. We could not recommend this apartment highly enough. Having visited Barcelona before and seen all the major sights, Gracia is so vibrant and interesting with it's abundance of unique shops, the food market, restaurants and bars we hardly left the neighbourhood except to go to the beach one day. The outside area of the apartment is just brilliant to enjoy breakfast and to chill out at the end of the day with a glass of wine or beer especially with most other apartments only having a small balcony (Xavi's also has a balcony at the front to watch the world go by. The Tapas restaurant opposite that Xavi recommended is excellent. A brilliant holiday made all the more special because of staying at Xavi's apartment. We will be back.