The apartment's location is wonderful, just a few minutes walking to the Born and Estación de Francia train station -lots of restaurants, cafés, and stores in the area. The communication with our hosts was also excellent. However, the apartment feels run down. It appears nicer in the pictures. The furniture in the living room is different than what is shown, and there are no decorative plants. The bedsheets seem worn out, one of them was stained. The place is lacking maintenance as well (a towel hook, night table shelf, and drawer cover were all broken). Basic kitchen utensils were lacking, for example, there was no turner/spoon. The remote for the TV had no batteries. There is a shared washing machine on the rooftop, but apparently, the drying machine was broken. We were told there was a drying rack in the unit, but beware: in Barcelona's humid climate, it will take a long time for clothes to dry. We had been traveling for 10 days when we reached Barcelona and had a lot of laundry that we had planned to do, unsuccessfully. Also, please note that there is no air conditioning in two of the bedrooms, which got too warm when we visited, in the summertime. There were no fans to make up for this. The two bathrooms had exactly one half-used toilet paper roll each, and there were no replacements. We know better than to expect unannounced amenities from hosts (although we have been blessedly spoiled by most of them) but not having even enough toilet paper felt cheap.
The location is so good, however, that if you still want to consider this place just beware of what you are getting. Because we paid more than what we did in other cities (Madrid, Toledo, and even Paris) we were expecting an upscale place - the apartment did not live up to those expectations.