We arrived with great hopes, given the positive reviews to date and the price we paid. We were told we were paying a premium price as it was a busy weekend in Barcelona but the facilities remained equivalent to a lower price. We had a pretty poor experience of this apartment and its hosts. We had numerous maintenance issues that impacted on our stay: air conditioning not working for the first three days, the washing machine not working for the last three, and small electric shocks off both the washing machine and dishwasher, particularly concerning as we were there with kids. We also raised some further feedback to the hosts that was rapidly dismissed, line by line, with the hosts quoting back more favourable guest comments to invalidate ours. It was a remarkably inhospitable way to respond to a negative guest experience, barely an apology nor any recompense.
So bring your own cassettes and cds for the 'vintage' Bang & Olufsen stereo - or you can listen to the pirated cds from the early 2000s. Bring your own devices - or you can watch pirated movies via an old media player attached to the TV screen but the TV won't operate for any other purpose. We needed to purchase a range of basic supplies such as tablets for dishwasher/washing machine/olive oil etc and throw out the herbs and spices that dated back to 2013. The listing includes 'TV', washing machine, air conditioning, cooking basics etc, but unfortunately not so for us. I had to spend a large portion of our week in Barcelona reporting maintenance issues and dealing with the consequences, including the host arriving at the apartment to tell me how upset he was by the feedback. The apartment is well located, lovely tiles and features, the Internet connection is good, but it really feels like this apartment has likely generated a lot of income, without much investment back into the guest experience. The hosts' repeated assertions that everyone else had been happy in the past with their stays did not make us feel any better, nor did it address the inconvenience or impact on our holiday. I hope that if you chose to stay here, you find all the advertised features in actual operation.