This apartment was a great place to call home for a couple months in Mexico City. In terms of location I don't think there's anywhere else in the city that I'd rather be located based on my budget. So much great food, bars, parks and cafe's nearby. Located a block or 2 away from Insurgentes metro station, halfway between El Centro and Parque Chapultepec, you can get to either of those spots in 30-40 min walk or 10-15 mins on metro, 20 min walk to Condesa, 2 blocks away from barrio Juarez. Roma Norte is such a sweet neighborhood! The hostess was super nice and helpful and quickly answered whatever questions I had about the space. The apartment itself was nice and spacious, nice decor and cool layout, and felt like a place you'd find inhabited by locals- no tacky hostel-style or airbnb-esque decor, which for me was a big plus. The internet worked pretty well for me in most parts of the apartment which was crucial since I was working remotely on zoom calls a lot of each week. The only place where the wifi was spotty was at the dining table in the living room. Everywhere else it ran at around 20mbps. Wifi only went out once in the 7 weeks I was there, for about 2 hours, which was the case for the whole neighborhood. Cool rooftop deck (but beware of all the mosquitos trying to eat you at dusk!) and big windows overlooking the street in the living room. There's a washer which was crucial and so great to have in the apartment - you can hang your clothes on the clothesline upstairs on the rooftop deck to dry.
The only drawbacks and reasons I'm giving it 4 stars rather than 5 was that most of the latches on the windows seemed to be broken and had signs saying to not open them- only a few were able to open so not a lot of air circulation and when the few that could open were opened I could smell a lot of the car exhaust from the outside, but such is city life. Also the entire section of the living room that holds the bay windows that stick out over the street look like they're going to break off from the building- I was afraid to step ther in the section right in front of the windows because I didn't want the whole section of the building to collapse and fall off. You can see how fragile it looks from the outside if you look up at the bay windows from the street. The windows don't completely seal either, there were little bits of cardboard jammed in the little gaps where the windows met the wall. Little quirks like this are what you get with such a cool and very old building but I definitely wouldn't want to be anywhere near there in an earthquake. Also the shower was hard to control, very little water pressure and was hard to find a balance between freezing cold and scalding hot water.
All in all the positives greatly outweigh its flaws and would recommend any traveller to stay and enjoy this little urban oasis! I hope I get to visit again, this apartment had a big impact on me having such a magical time in this incredible city.