Stayed for 5 nights for a city break holiday with my girlfriend. Great host, great location, but noisy and the bathroom stank. See below. The good: - We never met Luis in person but were greeted by Andrew, one of his colleagues who lives in one of the flats below, who was a fantastic host. Check-in was easy, Andrew was very friendly, helpful and answered all our questions on arrival. For one day trip we had to print out our tickets and Andrew very kindly did this for us as we had no printer. He also was very accommodating with the time for check-out and offered to look after our bags afterwards. Andrew promptly responded to any queries or concerns we had during our stay. - Location of the apartment was great. Located near the top of La Rambla and Passeig de Gràcia which are the main shopping streets. 2-3 min walk to the nearest Metro station. Good distance between the old town and sites like Sagrada Familia and Mount Tibidabo. Very close to the very quaint and pretty Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia. Good amount of shops, restaurants and takeaways nearby. Pretty easy to get to and from the airport (El-Prat). It is about a 15 min metro ride and walk from Placa de Catalunya which is where the airport bus arrives and departs from. Can take the train/metro from the airport also but we took the airbus. - Apartment itself was great. Very clean and spacious. Three decent sized bedrooms, two double beds and two single beds. Enjoyed playing cards and drinking wine the odd evening. Kitchen facility was good for the most part, decent sized bathroom, air conditioning throughout. Wi-fi internet was okay. The bad: - The listing didn't mention that there is a small daily tax to pay on arrival when staying in Barcelona. Luis was helpful and did respond to my email enquiry before our stay when I queried this. But was a bit confused and annoyed when we thought we booked the apartment for a set, total price to then find out that it didn't include taxes. Small point but the local tourist tax should be included on the listing. - Very noisy at night. The apartment is sandwiched between an Indian restaurant and a bar. Almost every night there was a lot of noise from the street until about midnight/1am. The windows were so thin they might as well not be there. The two double rooms face onto the street. Now, I grew up in London and have visited many major cities and it is unreasonable to expect no noise at all in a city like Barcelona. This being said, I found it to be very noisy at night and we didn't get as much sleep as we would have liked on our holiday. - There was a fairly strong sewage smell coming from the toilet/bathroom. The smell did come and go but we did in the end report it to Andrew...