The street is very alive and there are all kinds of shop and restaurant and bar,... for whatever that you need, opened until pretty late at night. I’d have to say that the location is as described, closed to metro stop. It’s also not the best metro stop tho, since there were so many people lying, sitting, living...on the ground.
It takes 30’ to walk to the city center, tho I would recommend you to stay on the big main streets while doing that. When we walked home from the city at night, following google maps, we had witnessed some junkie activities, it was not a pleasant experience.
I also wouldn’t say it is the safest neighborhood. During our stay of 4 nights we were rang by the intercom on the 2nd and the 4th night. It happened around 3am midnight, whoever rang it, did it very agressively and didn’t say anything we could understand when we pick up, but continued ringing aggressively for a very long time about 5 minutes. This fucked up our sleep and we were very tired the next day. I think this was someone that wanted to enter the building, but at the moment it was scary.
The building has a very musty smell, there was also mold on the ceiling in the bathroom. The aircon is not really sufficient and very loud. But the room was ok and the bed was very comfortable.
There are no pot or pans to cook except for a water boiler and a sandwich maker, we also didnt see any salt and peppers as described. There wasn’t any knife either for fruits cutting or whatsoever.