The location of this apartment is fantastic - close to the ocean, shops, restaurants and the metro is a five minute walk away. Joaquim was always accessible and let us check into the apartment early. The apartment is decently equipped including a washing machine and it does have air conditioning which cools the living area nicely. We do recommend that you ask Joaquim to supply an electric fan as the air conditioning does not reach into the bedroom and it was uncomfortably warm in May. Also, the clothes need to be dried on a drying rack and, without air movement, it took our clothes three days to fully dry and a fan would help with that as well.. The elevator was an issue. It had a tendency to not allow the door to be opened on the desired floor. When that happened, we took the elevator to another floor and returned to the desired floor and then the door would open. Overall, we found that the apartment worked very well for us for the 11 days we stayed there. Since we have family in the area, we will probably be staying there again.