There was a delay due to overbooking with our flight on the way to barcelona and i messaged the host straight away from Dublin to let him know. We got to the apartment 2 hrs after the time we were supposed to. When i saw the host i put my hand out to shake hands, and he didn't, i said hi and he kept talking on his phone at the same time, didn't look me in the eyes once and instructions were very unclear. Instead the first words i heard from him was not hi, but "there's a charge for this" i don't mind paying as its almost a rule everywhere but maybe just say welcome, shake hands... etc. my husband and i were also traveling with our 3 year old boy and we were very tired and didn't expect this treatment when everything was out of our control and being in foreign country.
The apartment has loads of space, very clean, lovely balcony. The AC in our room wasn't working properly, maybe due to the unclear instruction given by our host as he was giving the instructions he continued using his phone. I didn't get in touch with him about this because i didn't want to deal with people like this in my holidays that we work very hard for. The location is good. Plaza cataluna is about 20 mins walking and the metro is about 7 mins from the apartment, public transport in barcelona is very good. There's a mini market not too big one block away and a pharmacy just below the building.
We loved the apartment but wouldn't stay there again. We were flying as a family, we were looking forward to getting to the apartment after dealing with an airline overbooking and getting treated like this by our host, lives a bad impression in you.