While the Gracia neighborhood is one of the nicest in Barcelona, this apartment needs many improvements to make it a pleasant place to stay. We arrived, the apartment was hot, the AC not functioning properly and leaking water and no fan or other equipment to cool the apartment.
Monica was only reachable after a period of time because she was driving.
When we could reach her by telephone, we did not get a lot of remedies but a focus that so many people had liked this apartment. Not being able to get any remedies and with the apartment still hot, we left after 30 minutes and found alternate accommodation.
In our opinion, the apartment needs repairs and improvements, some equipment needs to be provided such as fan, TV/flatscreen, outdoor furniture, and some equipment needs to be improved such as kitchenware and coffee maker, and better furniture throughout including couch, bed, and a place to hang and put clothes.
In our opinion it is only fair to say that, the apartment needs equipment, furniture, some painting and a lot of TLC. The cost to make the apartment pleasant is really not that much considering the cost of this AirBNB rental.
We are not sorry that we left the property after less than 30 minutes, not being able to get some remedies to the situation and realizing that some remedies would take time. In our opinion, although it is a great neighborhood, the condition of the apartment and the lack of good locks made it not a reasonable place for our five night stay and we spent money to stay in a reliable hotel.