The pictures are an accurate description of the apartment. It is cute and quirky. There are zero windows unless you want to leave the curtains to the road open. The glass wall facing the road is obscured glass, but you can still see shapes, so we left the curtains closed any time we were there. The noise didn’t bother me as I sleep with earplugs anyway. The neighborhood is not somewhere I would feel comfortable walking around at night without a group or a man at my side, but the metro is fairly close so you can go other places. I was happy that when we arrived Marie answered the phone right away as the code to the lockbox where the key was had been changed so we couldn’t get in. There was a binder with useful info for the area and travel books on the shelf. Marie was in contact to be sure everything was ok.