We have mixed feelings about this stay.
The good:
- Location is great if you want to experience Eixample with many restaurants, shopping, transportation nearby. It's very central so you can easily get to Ciutat Vella or Gracia.
- AC. We arrived during a very hot week here. The AC in the apartment saved us and worked great.
- The apartment is large and can easily accommodate a large family like ours.
- Quiet: the windows seal the street noise very well.
- Communication was quick and solid (but did not necessarily resolve the issues)
The not-so-good:
- The apartment is very dark. It's long, and only the front living room has 2 narrow windows, plus the back 2 bedrooms have doors that open to a small balcony that has natural light. The rest of the apartment is dark.
- Lacking amenities: It is very standard, definitely for an apartment at this price, to make the guest feel comfortable and a little pampered. We received small plastic single use bottles of shampoo and shower gel that are used in budget hotels. There was no hand soap, no trash bags, only one pod for the dishwasher, a Nespresso machine but no coffee pods, no electric kettle to heat up water.
- The wifi only worked in the back part of the house. It did not reaching the dining or living rooms. The TV was not connected to the internet and there was no Netflix or other streaming services that worked.
- Some small things are broken in the apartment. There is no handle on the toilet that's right in front of the entrance.
- The floor wasn't very clean and our feet got dirty with dust very quickly. Some of the tables had dust on them also.
- One of the double beds was impossible to sleep on. It was extremely uncomfortable and made strong screeching noises every time someone moved a little. The pillows left our necks stiff and made for an uncomfortable sleep.