While only a short walk to the historic district, this apartment is in a TERRIBLE location. The apartment is on a side street that is run down and full of graffiti and garbage. The actual apartment itself is covered in graffiti. Garbage is everywhere on the street outside the apartment including dog feces and an old mattress. On Friday night, it was so loud outside we couldn’t sleep. There is a bar across the street and there was yelling and loud music into the early hours. There were also residents leaving and returning to the building all night – door slamming and foot stomping. In addition to all the noise, the street lights shine very brightly into the windows with the blinds drawn, making it even more difficult to sleep.
The apartment itself is nice, attractively decorated, mostly clean and exactly as described and shown in pictures. However there are some downsides. The lobby area is dirty and smelly and there is no light – making it hard to find the lock on the door to open. The bathroom needs some serious cleaning of mold. The shower doesn’t have a soap dish or anything to put shampoo bottles on. The hand shower does not work. There is only one bath towel per person and it is very skimpy. The sofa in the living room is very small and cannot fit 2 adults comfortably and there is no other chair in the room.
The air conditioner in the living room turns off automatically (the host says it is ‘for safety’) after one hour. There is no air conditioning or even a fan in the bedroom where it becomes very hot at night when the a/c in the living room turns off after an hour. Or, you need to get up every hour to turn on the a/c. You can’t even leave the windows open due to the noise and possible safety issues.
If you consider staying here – ask the host for pictures of the outside. Malaga itself is beautiful, but I would NOT stay here again.