The pictures definitely depict the actual apartment. The view is absolutely stunning and very enjoyable. We had hot water issue one morning but they were very responsive and fixed it within a couple of hours. The most difficult part of the stay was there is no close local transportation bus or metro. We ended up using local taxi or mytaxi service; however even using that they would pick us up at our door or the top of the hill but when they would drop us off it was at the bottom of a hill that required you to walk up 6-7 flights of stairs to get to the street in front of the apartment. Overall for the price I would rate it a 5 out of 10.