I just returned from Barcelona and I am happy to share my experience with other AirBNB users ...! The apartment itself is nice. It's very obivous that it has been renovated recently. New laminate everywhere, new bathroom, new doors ... nice! And the apartment has a bathroom with toilet PLUS a separate toilet, which is quite good. Because sharing an apartment with four units (which means up to 8 people) could cause heavy traffic on the toilet :-)) ...
Check In was easy, location is good ... as described (btw, everything was as described!), near Sagrada Familia, near the beach and near public transport. Btw, if you visit Barcelona for a couple of days, buy T-USUAL card ... you can get it at all metro stations. You get 10 rides, but you pay only 5. So much cheaper to travel around the city with that card. You could even go to CastelldeMar and you pay only 1 euro something ...
But there are a couple of things which I want to let you know and which are the reason why I would not recommend to stay there! First of all, the communication. Well, I booked an AirBnb room and I didn't want to find a chat buddy ... but anyway, I've booked some airbnb rooms before and now it was the first time that communication was absolutely limited to the mininum. As mentioned in one of the reviews before, it was quite anonymous. "Tom's Team" ... who is Tom? Who is writing? No idea. It was the first AirBNB booking where the host didn't say "thanks for booking" ... "how was your stay" ... "have a good trip home" ... nothing! Messages like that cost nothing and make the guest feel being really invited and really welcome! I arrived at the airport and didn't even know the house number, since it was not in the airbnb system. If you send a message you get a reply within minutes!
As I said, that's just a thing that was kinda new to me, because the communication with all hosts before was totally different and more inviting. But that's not the reason for my decision not to recommend that place. The trash bin in the kitchen, which was more than full most of the time ... also not the reason why I don't recommend that place.
But two things were really very disturbing:
1) the room was definitely too hot. And the other guys in the apartment told me the same about their apartments. This room has a fan, but it doesn't help to make the room cooler.
If you open the window, lots of mosquitos come in and eat you during the night ...!
Seriously, I was sweating every night ... and it's September.
How is the situation in July or August?
2) The whole building is bald soundproofed. If you stay here, bring good earplugs!
You hear everything. You can hear the neighbor in the next room, you can hear people talking in the apartment below, you can hear people walking in the apartment above ... way too loud!
My stay was ok, no problems during the stay, everything was good .... but to be honest, I wouldn't book again because sweating every night and sleepless nights because you hear everything in the house reduce the comfort of the stay a lot.