All in all the apartment is great and the location is fantastic. You are super close to Plaza de Catalunya and in the area of Gracia you find a lot of cute and awesome restaurants/ bars. But unfortunately we had during our 5 weeks stay a lot of noise. The first 1-2 weeks there was constant construction noise from the new opened bar on the ground floor. As the apartment is located in the first floor you heard - basically everything. Unfortunately when the construction ended and the bar opened the noise did not really stop. During the day it was fine but still - you heard - basically everything from the guests on the street.
As we both worked remote from BCN and had a lot of calls during the day it was of course a bit distracting but still manageable. The only thing we could not handle was the noise in the sleeping room. In the first weeks the workers worked super long until 12pm so we barely could not fall asleep. After the construction ended we still could here the kitchen workes as the window into the little lifting hole was connected to the kitchen downstairs so you heard everything. You heard when they ended work and cleaned everything at night but you also directly heard everything when they started working in the morning. So it was from time to time super exhausting and we had no real time to rest. Unfortunately my girlfriend could not handle the lack of sleep at all and she decided to go home 2 weeks earlier (ofc on our costs).
We are not big complainers and we are also used to live in Berlin where we are from in one of the most noisy and crowded area but this was unfortunately way too loud. It made the stay in the end not as nice as we thought.
The apartment in general is very nice, nice furniture, great interior design however you miss a lot of details. The kitchen has barely any tools you can cook with - I think it’s because it’s due to the fact you can rent it more for long term and you buy all that stuff yourself.
So all good for us in general.
The furniture is all ikea which makes it look super fancy and it’s nice for sure.
The internet was at the beginning super fast - 100mbit and I was super surprised to see something like that in Spain but yes it was true. At the end the wifi struggled and I had to take my phones out of the wifi to watch Netflix on the tv.
During our stay I had from time to time contact with Marta, she was our contact person for all issues or questions. She was amazing. She helped us with noise problems but she also gave us recommendations for the city.
All in all - once again we are not big complainers and writing a feedback with some negative facts is always difficult but in this case I had to. We could have been informed that there is a construction and it’s taking at least 2 weeks during the 5 weeks. We could have been informed there is a hostel next to the bar - so additional noise came from there. We could have been informed there is a school on the opposite side of the street - so massive noise in the morning.
All those issues made the stay not really nice and to be honest - paying over 2000€ for 5 weeks is way too much for this combined.
I also asked for a small compensation as my girlfriend flew back home earlier and there was a small outstanding payment still to pay but they did not accept that so I had to pay everything. Of course this is within their rights but I expected a bit fairness.
However once again - it was a good time however some circumstances made it a bit tricky.
I hope the next renter have a better time and I wish Marta and the owners the best.
Adios