The apartment is in a good location and for the money it is not too bad. My biggest gripe is the beds are atrocious - one is basically an old sofa bed or camp bed - barely a double and really short for any tall people out there - we ended up sleeping on the sofa bed in the lounge room because it was infinitely more comfortable and actually managed to get some sleep. Our friends had a proper bed in their room but it was really uncomfortable plus it was really bright with outside lights and see-though curtains, so they had three sleepless nights. If anyone is really worried about security, the sliding door to the balcony didn't lock and management did nothing when we reported it. I wouldn't stay there again and pay more for a bit more comfort.

This place for location in Barcelona is perfect, situated on the main street Las Ramblas.
We spent 4 nights on the 2nd level apartments with a room facing off the main street onto an alley and if you are not that keen on sleep it is perfect!!!!! the room was large and we had our own private bathroom. The main street of Las Ramblas does not STOP, people can be heard all night and into the early hours of the morning.

Value for money i would say it is ok, although the apartments themselves are in desperate need of some maintenance.and as far as the cleaniness of the apartments i believe it is pretty Slack. In the 4 nights we stayed not once was our towels changed or Bins emptied...... the sheets on the bed are in desperate need of an upgrade, and you would think with the amount of people staying at the apartments they would invest in some.
They advertise themselves as a B&B but there is nothing B&B about it, it is more like a hostel with B&B room prices. They have a kitchen available for you to use and the website states it has a washing machine... although when asking if we were able to use it we were told No!!!
Overall the room was a place to lay our heads at the end of a busy day but i would not return to Las Ramblas apartments and doubt i would recommend this place to family or friends.

Firstly let me clarify - this apartment is on a little street called Templaris about 200 mtrs from Las Ramblas - not "right on the Ramblas" as has previously been mentioned.
On arriving in Barcelona, the keys need to be picked up from Barcelona Boutique Hotel which unfortunately is on opposite side of Plaza Catalunya but this is made quite clear on their info page. To locate this boutique hotel (not easy), first look out for a much larger one called Hotel Claris (on Pau Claris) and it's on the corner diagonally across from there. The only way of knowing it's a boutique hotel is by the plaque in the doorway below the bells. Great setup! Hope that helps some bit.
Anyway, after waiting 20 minutes on the street for the receptionist to return from wherever, I was let in to be given the keys and a very rough map showing the way to the apartment. Thankfully I'd done my homework on this and have been to Barcelona previously so knew my way around but a first time visitor may find it a bit stressful.
When we finally arrived at the (ugly) apartment block, the first thing we were greeted with was a smell of sewage in the stairwell and lift. My girlfriend and her 2 kids were not impressed with my choice of accommodation and we hadn't even got to the room yet. Once inside it very quickly became apparent that the room hadn't been touched since the previous occupants had left earlier that day. And this was 10.00 at night. Bedclothes thrown back after their nights sleep, toilet not cleaned and their 2 sets of keys still on the table. Maybe we should have contacted the hotel immediately but we set to work changing the sheets and cleaning up as best we could and I decided to leave it til tomorrow to talk to them. Outside of it being unclean, it wasn't a great apartment anyway. Some bulbs were missing, no toilet seat and no kettle in the kitchen so we had to make cups of tea in the microwave. A bit cramped also but that can be expected and the views were certainly not of a tree lined Ramblas as one reviewer has posted below. More like a 1960's communist office block. We considered moving out the next morning but as we only had one more night there, we decided it wasn't worth the hassle.
When we finally did complain to the hotel receptionist she made a phone call to someone I presume was responsible for the cleaning and then insisted to us that it had been cleaned. Really P'ed me off that she dismissed our complaints as untrue. I didn't want make too much of a fuss as I was afraid they'd keep our security deposit for any of the existing damage so left it at that.
To summarise, the apartment IS very central and is reasonably priced but thats really all it has going for it. No matter what price you pay you expect a place to at least be clean. Needless to say, we won't be returning to this place again. Barcelona has many better places to put your head down for a few nights.
Sorry for the long winded review but hopefully it'll help somebody else before they book.
Enjoy Barcelona!

I booked a holiday for my family (4 adults) in Las Ramblas Apartment I. The location was excellent, unless you are a bit of a night owl you might experience the nightlife and drunken singers at 4am a bit noisy. The apartment was not very clean, the toilet was leaking, the bedding was dirty and the mattress in the smaller room is in desperate need of a change. In fact we had to sleep on the divan in the sitting room. There was also a terrible smell coming from a ?drainpipe (this was situated in smaller room in ceiling above the wardrobe). The pictures as displayed on the expedia website must be a mixture of all the apartments because only some rooms are recognisable, so don't be fooled by the pictures.Overall for the amount we paid to stay there we would have been better off in a hotel. Hopefully things have improved as I raised my bad experience in a review send by the apartment's customer services. I have not as yet heard anything back. So be warned!