Jose Luis was a great host and added to the pleaseure of staying in the apartment.
The place is right on the Malagueta beach, on the first floor, with a great view out to sea from the balcony. The living room has the same aspect, but the view is partially obscured by a cordyline. (You can see this clearly in the photos, and therefore there is more privacy than you might get in another 1st floor apartment).
The living room is a good size, with seating and eating areas. Wifi is good and there's multi-channel TV. Both bedrooms are also a decent size (especially the master) and have their own TVs and remote controlled ceiling fans.
The kitchen is a reasonable size and well equipped with oven, hob, extractor, fridge-freezer and coffee machine. Storage space for you own stuff is fine, but countertop space for food preparation is limited. The oven is not your standard built-under model, in fact it's very small, so think twice before launching yourself into a roasting frenzy. :^)
The kitchen leads out to a back 'patio' at the bottom of the building's lightwell, and so offers handy storage (mostly open to the sky, remember). This is where you'll find the washing machine in a sheltered corner.
The bathroom has shower, toilet, bidet and a washbasin with plenty of towels stored in the cupboard under it.
Maria's cafe on the ground floor is good for coffees, breakfast and snacks. There are plenty of bars and restaurants in the buildings on the same street, and a Supersol supermarket and a pharmacy in the streets behind. The beach 'chiringuito' opposite is good for drinks and seafood in the afternoons, and rents out sunloungers and beach umbrellas. The seafront promenade runs for miles, and I can recommend the walk all the way out to El Palo where there are loads of cheap but excellent seafood restaurants. If you don't fancy the walk back, busses #3 and #11 will bring you to the bull ring.
Either bus will take you into town, although the walk in via the lighthouse and harbour is a delight and goes past the Pompidou Centre (offshoot of the Paris gallery). Bus #16 right at the start of the nearby Paseo del Parque will take you to the excellent Automobile & Fashion Museum and the Russian Museum (offshoot of the St Petersburg museum) on the West side of the city. Both are in the former tobacco factory, two blocks in from another long seafront promenade with many more chiringuitos to enjoy.