This apartment was a big disappointment for us, especially since we saw many positive reviews about it. Just before our stay, a negative review was published. We contacted the owner, who assured us that this review was untrue, and based on a scam. We were three adult people in the apartment, a father, son and daughter. We were therefore on the hunt for an apartment with three separate bedrooms. The pictures and the description on the AirBnb website seemed to owe up to what we were looking for. We went for it, despite the fact we found it rather expensive (EUR 2050 for seven nights). At first sight, the apartment looked really cool – but we were to see that there is absolutely no privacy at all in the apartment. The two toilets are more or less open to the sleeping and sitting areas, and both noise and odour travelled all over the apartment. One of the bedrooms is between the entrance and the kitchen, which we knew from the review mentioned above. However, the toilets/bathrooms were only separated by thin walls that didn't go up to the ceilings and attached to the two bedrooms. This meaning the person sleeping in this part would disturb the others by using the bathroom areas. This, we found totally unacceptable. We did not experience bedbugs as the previous reviewer, but we found cockroaches several times, mainly in the bathroom areas. Other bugs were present as well, but we assume that would be expected in a warmer climate than we are used to. There is also a strong smell of damp in the apartment, and visible signs of water damage in the ceilings.
Given that there is only one window possible to open, the window facing the front street (the apartment is at street level) it was impossible to ventilate the apartment. The person we met, we assume this was the owner, was kind enough, but was not able to communicate in English at all. We tried to call the telephone number given to us a few times. The first time we called, we were hung up on, and the later times' nobody answered the phone. Overall, we are really unhappy with this apartment. We have used AirBnb several times before, without being let down in this way by the apartment. We went out of our budget to ensure we would have a comfortable stay in Barcelona. Unfortunately, the apartment can in no way ascribe to how it is presented on AirBnb nor does it deliver the value that could be expected for the price we paid.