I’ve stayed in a lot of apartments in Barcelona, and this is honestly probably my all time favorite. I highly recommend it for both tourists and longer terms stays.
PROS:
-stylish, well though out design
-super quiet almost all of the time
-great neighborhood: tons of restaurants, grocery stores, well connected to everything
-red metro line one block away
-a few blocks to the aerobus airport bus stop
-terrace is gorgeous, and the views are amazing- you can see almost all the Barcelona landmarks
-great light & airflow
-AC in the living room and bedrooms, works really well
-room darkening shades work really well
-bathroom and shower are in separate rooms
-tons of hot water and water pressure, shower has both an overhead shower and a handheld one
-Fabrice is super responsive and helpful, one of the best hosts I’ve ever stayed with
-it’s a great apartment, I highly recommend it!!
CONS:
-park downstairs can get a little noisy in the evenings and on weekends, but it just felt like a ‘festive’ atmosphere and didn’t really bother me (and everything bothers me!)
-you can definitely hear the neighbors, but they are mostly quiet, it was never a real problem
-elevator is small and a little tricky to navigate, but you get used to it.
-no oven & tiny kitchen made it a little hard to cook
-not a lot of storage, and the ‘closets’ are all open so you can see everything
-there were only a few pillows and they weren’t great
-the shower is kind of tight
-it was clean enough, but it wasn’t like ‘hotel clean’
-some of the furniture has been changed, and there’s a round table and no desk now
-toilet was broken for my entire stay… you have to push the button a bunch of times until it stops running, and that was pretty annoying.
-the perisana blind on the terrace doors broke about a week into my stay and I had 24 hours of a dark aparment and no access to the terrace, and then it was stuck about 80% of the way up for the rest of my stay. Fabrice has probably already fixed it, but just mentioning it because it was a bit of a problem.