This Airbnb listing is very misleading. The host said that she would provide a virtual key upon check in, but lo and behold upon showing up to the apartment a man gave us the actual key and told us the virtual key / lock would be installed the following day in the morning. The workers were installing the lock on the apartment and we didn’t feel comfortable leaving our luggage (passports etc) while they were working. This delayed our entire itinerary by 2 hours. As a result, when we were using said virtual key around 11 PM, a man saw us using our phones at the apartment building entrance, and followed us into the apartment building. We were lucky we didn’t get mugged and had to call the police as this man was knocking on our door and walking around the building. Of course, we wanted a knife for our safety, but the kitchen didn’t have anything but butter knives.
Finally, the apartment smells like paint, has cheap mattresses, the shower doesn’t really drain, and some of the pillows/blankets were yellowing. The AC didn’t work. The dryer didn’t work, and we had to leave at checkout with WET CLOTHES.
Barcelona is a lovely city, but I wholeheartedly discourage anyone from staying at this Airbnb.