Wonderful apartment on the 5th floor with a very good and close by elevator. Their was a security man at the front level as well as excellent safe parking in the building. One could not ask for a better situation. Restaurants nearby and the tram as well as the metro was within 2 short blocks. For both, one needs coins or go into the old town area and buy a daily pass to use all local transportation for about $4.50 If one is 70 or older, local transportation using the bus, metro or tram is free. Once out however, be careful - at the castle, I lost my wallet, credit cards and passport to a pickpocket. Guide books warn of this problem(I had mine in my front pocket) In the future, I would come up with some other way to safeguard the important stuff. (The US embassy was very efficient in coming up with a new passport replacement for $135,00). Veronica provided maps and information and was extremely helpful. One could not have had a better host