FGA Liceu Apartments - Barcelona, Spain 

Anne Weiss
Posted: Tue, Jun 23 2009
We ate breakfast and prepared sandwiches for lunch in the apartment. We are on restricted diets so this made our travels much easier. The open-air market is around the corner and the supermarket is close too. It would have been helpful to have been given a map noting these 2 services. The bathroom only has one towel hook, which meant we had to dry our towels on the backs of the wooden chairs by the table, not good for the chairs but we had no other choice! We think it would be very helpful if you could add another 2-3 hooks in the bathroom, not an expensive idea. Also, there is no shelf in the shower stall on which to put soap/shampoo etc. and we had to lean down to the tile area on the floor to pick up these items each time. This is very dangerous when your feet are wet! We have stayed in apartments like this in other cities in Europe and were surprised that there were no drawers for clothes (so we lived out of our suitcases which covered the living room area!), and no hotel style little bar of soap in the bathroom (at least to be able to wash our hands on arrival after using the bathroom without having to use the kitchen detergent, not really sanitary). We were also surprised that no English language international news station was available on the television, i.e. CNN international. One last suggestion, there was an adorable set for kitchen salt/pepper/oil etc. in one cabinet. We did not expect there to be oil and vinegar, but expected to find pepper in the pepper shaker - also not a significant expense on your part. (The salt shaker had salt and there was a package in the cabinet to refill it if necessary. Because the bedroom was next to the entrance door, we heard other neighbors arrive noisily late at night. It was, however, convenient having the bathroom near the bedroom. We ate out at Juicy Jones (vegan) and Maoz Felafel (vegetarian). We bought paper napkins and paper towels and left them on departure. We really hope the next visi

SP
Posted: Fri, Apr 17 2009
everything was just prefect: the kitchen. the spaces, the bed, the place was wonderful and close to every nice place in town. however, the last day our flight went out in the afternoon and we did not have a place where to leave the lugagge! so embarrasing, they gave us only one option: to travel and walk more than 30min and leave the luggage in their main office!

OP
Posted: Sun, Feb 22 2009
I recommend this agency (feel good) for the quality of the apartments I had in barcelona. Clean, good taste in decoration, comfortable ... Take care: if you stay after check out time, your digital key will be turned off ... no way to come back inside.

HS
Posted: Fri, Feb 13 2009
Studio-style apartment, single long room gave us plenty of space. Living room furniture sparse and modern style lacks true comfort. Heating was very effective in this cold winter, and responsive to thermostat settings!!! Location is very central: 5 minutes walk to Placa Catalunya with its bus connections, two minutes to the fresh food market, large Internet facility down Las Ramblas close by. If coming in by train, office is closest to Franca station, but then it's 20-25 minutes walk to the apartment. We took a taxi given the weather, but a walk would have been achievable as it's straight-forward to reach Calle Carmen. Very secure apartment building. Street not noisy in winter, maybe busier in season.

GD
Posted: Sun, Feb 01 2009
The room was not heated enough.