Jesus was very nice and the location is good but hilly with sufficient amenities nearby such as eating places, bus and metro and grocery stores.
The apt. was a bit smaller than I had expected and presented some difficulty of access as you have to negotiate 2 very steep flights of stairs.
Also, we experienced a couple of poor communication issues with the host. The day of our arrival, it was too early for check-in so I asked Jesus the directions to Parc Guell, purportedly nearby. However, following our host's very brief advice, we took 'a right and another right' and wandered around a dusty, hilly park for several hours which turned out to be Park Carmel and not the iconic park destination we had expected to see. We were exhausted and apart from the involuntary exercise, it was a waste of the calculated time we had set aside for sightseeing.
The other set-back happened on the last two full days when we wanted to take in a Flamenco show. We had a brochure and tried to book online without success so we took the brochure to our host and he made a direct call to the venue and arrangements were completed or so we thought. When we arrived at the brochure venue, apparently it was an old address and the company had moved, so another failed tourist attempt. The next night and our last, two of us tried again to locate this venue in the on-and-off rainy weather and had no better luck. Too late, we realized the the La Rambla Catalunya address was not La Rambla, next to Catalunya Plaza but the street on the other side of the square called La Rambla Catalunya!!!!! Of course like the inclement weather I do not blame this on the host but I want him to know that a foreign tourist is still a babe in the woods and need a constant helping hand.