Gracia is a vibrant and safe area with lots of restaurants, terraces and little alleys. The apartment was bright, nice, clean and we enjoyed the terrace a lot!
The downside was the communication with the host: few days before we arrived, we let him know that we would arrive in the beginning of the afternoon to give enough notice on when/where we get the keys. Eventually my friends ended up waiting for an hour in front of the apartment trying to reach out to the host on the phone unsuccessfully. An hour later, the cleaning lady arrived and said they could only dropped the luggage inside but had to leave for 2 hours as she needed to clean the apartment!!!
I have been using Airbnb many times and this situation never happened to me. This is definitely bad communication from the host and we would have appreciated some apologies.