We stayed at this location for 6 nights in the beginning of October 2019.
This apartment is managed profesionally. It is indeed located steps away from the cathedral and other touristic spots in Malaga. The apartment is clean si obviously renovated. A lot of thinking went into the details. We mostly enjoyed the great location, the view of the cathedral, the living room and the great communication with Simona (both before and during our stay).
There are a couple of details that we have not seen mentioned in other reviews and may be helpful:
a) the bedrooms and the main bathroom have problems with the ventilation. Specifically,
- the master bedroom has a very small window
- the smaller bedroom has no real window. The window opening is towards an inner chute in the building, where all the cooking smell comes in. There is no bug screen and once you open, spiders and other immediately come in. Therefore, you cannot open the window.
- the bigger bathroom next to the master bedroom has the same window opening towards the chute, with the same problem described above. Therefore, after taking a shower you can only open the bedroom door.
Malaga in October 2019 was very humid and not being able to bring fresh air in the bathrooms and bedrooms was a big problem for us. The owners should consider:
- adding a basic ventilation system (fan) in the window of the small bedroom and bigger bathroom, with a tube that exits on the roof to bring fresh air, and
- adding bug screens to all the windows in the apartment to prevent spiders, mosquitoes, flies, etc from coming in.
b) the supplies are available, however be aware that they are in economy-mode. Unlike our other Airbnb stays in Andalusia, where the supplies were plenty and we used what we needed, here we were initially given at checkin a total of 2 rolls of toilet paper (we were 2 people, who were staying for 6 nights). We were a bit unsure if this meant we should go shopping for supplies right away. This was corrected immediately, but we found out that the same economy-mode applied to coffee, sugar or other supplies in the kitchen. If we were 3 instead of 2 people, the supplies provided would not have been enough. Therefore be aware that you need to bring your own if you choose this property.
c) the washing machine in the apartment has only one program, which takes a full hour. Due to the fact that nothing was drying due to the humidity and due to the long time it took to run, we only used it once. Suggest the owners consider an option to provide a washer with at least one short program (15 mins or 30 mins). Travelers dont’t quite have the time to wait one hour for each person in the group when they arrive from their daily trips.
Would we choose this apartment again? No, not for our vacation, due to the issues mentioned earlier. For sure, these can be corrected quite easily and this would make for a much nicer stay.