Nicholas was very quick to respond to all email messages. His sister Maria Silvina receives the guests in BsAs - she was very nice and quick to respond as well. The apartment is gorgeous and large, the spacious sun - drenched living room is great. It is one of the increasingly rare old apartments in a historic building from Argentina's golden age which we much prefer to the newly built or renovated faceless modern boxes. It is also very central and right on the large and beautiful plaza Congreso - a spacious respite from the otherwise crammed central streets. Because we love that older architecture and feel so much, we are willing to put up with a couple of drawbacks, which are:

- No air conditioning: we usually come during the cooler months, but those who come Nov through April should be aware

- Noise problem: the bedrooms are towards the back of the building, which makes street noise inaudible, but there are air conditioning fans on the wall of the adjacent office building, which we found to be very loud when on. They are not on when it is 50F or lower, and the whole issue may not matter for early risers.

- The old windows are not very insulating. When it gets cold in July and August, the electric heaters in the apartment cannot quite keep up. There are two space heaters, but when we tried to plug them in, some wiring in the building burned out and we lost electricity. Fortunately, this happened during the day, Maria Silvina responded right away, an electrician came and fixed the wire, but told us that the wiring in the apartment cannot handle all the heaters at once. This may get fixed eventually if the new wires are installed.

In spite of the above problems, we will probably try to stay at this beautiful apartment again for we love it and the area so much.