The location is great--very close to all public transit, and you feel in the middle of a "local" neighborhood. (Their directions were excellent as well). It is a couple metro stops away from major sights but not terribly far. There is some street noise early morning with commuters and occasionally some noise from the next door bar (when there is a soccer match), but usually pretty quiet later on at night. The bed downstairs was quite comfortable, and it was wonderful to have the amenities such as washer/dryer, fridge, coffee maker. Overall the place is very comfortable and homey. They very sweetly left us a bottle of Cava to have as well, and have well stocked the kitchen. Even though Alex and Gemma could not meet us, they had their friend welcome us to the apartment. She was a wonderful woman and spent quite a bit of time telling us about good places to eat etc.! What a nice touch. Overall the only negative I could say was that there is some mold and a bad odor from one of the two bathrooms, and so they have a lot of floral air fresheners about, which made me a bit sneezy as I have allergies. I discovered closing the door to that one bathroom took care of the smell, and luckily since there were only 2 of us in the apartment we did not need to use it.