The apartment was clean and was about a thirty minute walk from the center. It's in a really noisy area and because there is no air conditioning we had the windows open a lot of the time, which made the noise much worse. I like that there was a grocery store right across the street (but you can literally hear groceries being scanned from your room. Literally. Beep beep beep). There's a baby in the neighborhood that cries like a wild banshee in the morning and evenings. Not sure if it's the same baby. But my point is, there is nothing quiet about the apartment's location. I was actually quite annoyed. Something that drew me to the apartment was how interesting it looked in the photos, but when we arrived we were actually quite disgusted with some of the artwork. One painting we took down during the duration of our stay so we didn't have to look at it when we went to bed at night. I won't go into detail, but it was disgusting to us in a sexual way. We initially felt uncomfortable but we had spent $600 so we decided to stick it out. The floors are very creaky. Once we got past the things we didn't like, the apartment was okay but not our favorite place to have stayed. We never met the host as she left the key under the mat.