I would give this apartment a 3/5 stars.
First the pros: the location is good. The apartment is walking distance to the Bosque de Chapultepec and about a block and a half or so from a supermarket and minutes from lots of great restaurants and cafés. The food around the neighborhood did not disappoint.
Also the people who work at the reception in the building were always very friendly, attentive and helpful.
The apartment has that same lovely view you see in the pictures and size wise, it was comfortable for us, a family of three.
Now the cons: Yes, the place looks as pictured but it is in need of maintenance. Some paint would go a long way on those white walls and some of the wood was chipped and the desk pictured in the master room was broken. Not that I needed it, but it just doesn’t feel great when you get to a place and see that it’s in such need of repair.
Also, my husband hated the sofa, which is more like a love seat and very uncomfortable. This may not be important to some people if they don’t plan to spend much time in the apartment, but we were traveling with a 4 year old, so at some point in the evening we would have to be back in the apartment and would have appreciated a more comfortable setting for that.
However the thing that I found the most upsetting, and the main reason I give this place no more than those 3 stars, is the cleanliness. The place looked clean enough at a glance, but then I started noticing small things here and there that just made me think the cleaning had been superficial at best. For example: the bathroom mats had long hairs on them, both mats did; when I went to make breakfast, I discovered both pans had not been washed and had encrusted food on them, and the same thing happened with the spatula, and I kept finding little ear plugs here and there on the floor that perhaps a past guest left behind.
Like some of the other guests have reported, the place can be loud, but we lived in Brooklyn for over a decade and were surprised, but still able to sleep well. So I’m that regard, I don’t have much to say.
In the end, the stay was oks. I would not go back and would not recommend it, but it wasn’t the worst either, I guess.