The apartment location is fantastic, but our experience wasn’t so great.
We are 5 adults and an infant and live in the area, but needed a place for a few days visiting the center of malaga as we’d flown our newborn’s great grandfather in from abroad to visit. He suffered from dementia and requires special attention, so we were looking for somewhere easy and close to everything so we could show him around, but also get some rest during the day sometimes.
The building does have an elevator, but as is common in some of the older buildings in Malaga, it required one step up into the lobby and then about 5 or 6 more steps just to reach the entrance of the elevator. Naturally, this was not very convenient given we had both an infant in her stroller and her 80 year old great grandfather with us.
As for the apartment itself, we were disappointed by the state of the apartment and furniture. Everything is much older than it looks in the pictures: chairs worn out, sofa very clearly worn from use, mattresses with dips in them, marks on the paint every room, skirtings clearly water damaged from leaky showers and coming off the walls, bathroom doors did not lock, some flooring was loose, and the kitchen had an unpleasant smell.
To add some credibility to the criticism, our family has owned and operated a renovations company in the Costa Del Sol for the last 18 years and 15+ years abroad before that. We are very well versed in these types of renovations. The quality of the work was probably fine at the time it was done, but it has quite obviously not been maintained very well. Even a simple coat of paint would’ve gone a long way in improving the apartment, but it appeared that hasn’t been done in a long time.
We also had a very unpleasant issue of construction going on in the neighboring apartment. While this was out of control of the company that manages this apartment, it was still very disturbing to have banging from 8am until 4pm both days of our stay. In fairness to the company, they did offer us another apartment about 7 minutes walk away, but given that parking in the area is non-existent, and that we had a 5 month old baby and an 80 year old with dementia, plus all of the necessary supplies for their care, it wasn’t as simple as walking a few minutes. We would’ve lost the better part of our day making the move with no guarantee that the other apartment would’ve been better. So we reluctantly decided to stay at try to enjoy our time outside as much as we could anyway. The management company was pretty good about replying, but often left us with responses like “we will look into it” rather than giving direct answers. We’ve asked for a refund, but that was also not confirmed.
Overall, the apartment is fine. Good enough if the price is in your budget, you don’t mind paying for parking, and you basically just use it to shower and sleep. But even that wasn’t super comfortable. The location is excellent. The service was ok. Will not rent from Urbe10 again. They own, manage, and act as real estate agents for a lot of properties in Málaga. We will take our business elsewhere next time.