Atic Arago
Arago, 116
Barcelona, Spain
- 3 blocks away from the metro station (Urgell)
- Lots of mom & pop restaurants around with 8-10 EUR menu del dia for lunch.
- 1 block from the supermarket (Consum)
- A few blocks away from Mercat del Ninot (produce/meat market)
- Close to a lot of buses, including one that runs through La Rambla to Barceloneta
Modern-looking top floor studio with good amentities
- Small kitchen: 2 gas burners, microwave
- Main space divided into a living area and sleeping area
- Double bed on futon frame
- Very small bathroom
- Ikea furniture
- Leather loveseat
- LCD TV with no English channels.
- Washing machine, outdoor dining furniture and refrigerator in covered sunroom
- Expansive outdoor deck sporting a clothesline (no drying machine)
- Internet (also see Shortfalls)
It has some shortfalls
- Sunroom gets too warm and bright during the day and had a permanent mildew smell
- Washing machine is difficult to operate
- Very little counterspace in the kitchen (just enough to put down a cutting board)
- Pots and pans were unusable (boiled some water in them and it tasted like teflon)
- Poor internet connection: the connection is not permanent; it ended up being a USB key that you plug into your computer to access the internet over the cell phone network; limited data plan (1 GB); it took three days for the property management company to get it to us after checking-in
- The shower stall was ridiculously small
It's not cheap
- 1500 EUR for 21 nights (~95 USD per night)
- Originally found on www.vrbo.com, but is managed through a property management company (www.aparteasy.com)
- We were frustrated with the management company with not having the internet set up on the day we arrived. Their answer to everything was "manana" (tomorrow).
1. Length of the studio apartment - from bed to sunroom.
2. J working in the sunroom. You can also see the outdoor deck beyond the sunroom
3. A view of the National Museum of Art from the deck
4. The kitchen
5. The bathroom
6. The extremely small shower.
