Our host, Ana was very responsive to our messages leading up to our check-in time. She was quite accommodating with our situation too, as the final leg of our flight had been canceled suddenly due to an airline strike, so we ended up needing to rent a car and drive to Barcelona from a different city which delayed our check-in time, as it took several hours more than our planned flight would have taken. Ana responded quickly to our messages along the way, and when we arrived she was there to show us the place. She was very welcoming, and since we were four people, offered us a second set of keys, which really came in handy and allowed us to do separate things some days of our vacation. The apartment was very clean, and as I remarked to Ana upon seeing it for the first time, looks exactly like the pictures. The neighborhood is a very nice, clean residential neighborhood. The apartment is above a small bar, which makes for some noise some nights, as people are on the sidewalk cafe below, however the bedrooms have about the best light and noise blocking motorized outer metal blinds I've ever seen. There's a very cool all night cafe around the corner, where we ate a couple times, but was also very handy for getting our coffee early in the morning. There are several grocery stores nearby for bringing back food to prepare in the apartment. The location of the place is very convenient for seeing the city. There is much within walking distance, as well as close access to the busses, which we used frequently. Taxis also were easy to flag down in this area.