We booked Anne's place for roughly 1.5 weeks for a family trip to Barcelona. Things went OK, but we have some reservations about this apartment.
The good:
- The location is great and there are plenty of restaurants with excellent food all around it.
- For families, there is a playground right down the street for all age groups.
- It's rather quiet considering its location since it's situated at the back of the building. Nonetheless the neighbors seem to like to party on Friday and sometimes Saturday, too...
- The apartment was clean.
- Anne provided a high chair and a cot for our daughter.
- The kitchen is adequate to cook food from the nice markets.
The bad:
- The dishwasher was broken when we arrived and covered in mold; it had clearly not been used in a while. Anne fixed it, but it took almost a week. That the dishwasher was broken should have been obvious to anyone looking at the place...
- The washing machine smelled of mold, too. We cleaned it with some bleach, so that's mostly fixed now.
- The apartment is called "bright and comfy", but it really isn't bright. Especially not with the brown/gray walls; the rooms are rather dark. Maybe for Barcelona standards it's bright? Certainly not for ours. At least there is a wall of windows facing the courtyard.
- The bedrooms have windows facing some shafts that let in some light, but unfortunately also some pretty bad odors. There is no fresh air in the bedrooms other than opening the windows, and when a sewage smell comes in... yuck. The complaints of another reviewer are not fixed. Not sure if that's even fixable...
- There are lots of small things broken; a dresser drawer came apart, the blinds are mostly broken. If there had been a screw driver in the apartment I would have fixed these things, but there aren't any tools.
- We could continue with the small things; basically there are just lots of small annoyances that maybe aren't a big deal if you stay a few nights. For a longer stay I can just say that I've been in more convenient places, including in Barcelona.
We'd recommend the place for people staying for short periods who are going to enjoy the nightlife. If you have kids it probably isn't the right place...