Ramblas Apartments

We stayed for a long weekend at this hotel. The location is awesome...right in the Gothic area, which gives you walking distance to a slew of tapas restaurants, bars, shopping, and one block from Las Ramblas. The pricing was fairly cheap as well given other options in the area. The one downside is that on weekends the area can get a bit loud due to being close to bars, and at night you may find some nefarious characters trying to peddle drugs. As we were three males this didn't bother us (if anything gave us more local immersion), but any females traveling alone or in a group may find this area a bit sketchy and/or feel unsafe. Also note that there is not an elevator, so any room booked on the 2nd or higher floor will require walking up stairs (standard in Barcelona though). Overall we enjoyed the location and price of the hotel.

Nice location but 5th floor flat with a lot of stairs (luckily my dad wasn't with us or he would have really struggled!). Flat was ok, not as nice as another we stayed in on the same street a night earlier, and they didn't charge 40 Euros for cleaning like this place. Duvet for the sofa bed was stained which was not very nice. The hot water ran out quickly for showers (probably due to it being the top flat??). Hotels.com said free wifi and they tried to charge 10 Euros for this until we picked up on it in the booking confirmation. We would not chose to stay there again.