We were given clear instructions from Belinda on the short walk from Atocha Renfe train station. We arrived earlier than expected and she kindly rushed over! However, I did not realize we had to climb 4 flights of stairs (top floor) until we received the exact address. So keep this in mind if this is a physical challenge for you. We stayed there for 5 nights, so had to take out garbage out to the street collection and it's only from 7pm-midnight, so that's an additional 8 flights of stairs. I guess you can get the full local Madrid experience? Once you get in the apartment building, it's set up like an open courtyard with apt on left and right side with a dry laundry clothing wire line connecting across your door so pretty unique compare to USA. You can wash your clothes and clip them to the outdoor dry clothing line. There were three of us so we each got a bed - sofa bed in living/open kitchen room, sofa bed inside bedroom and bed inside bedroom. Once you open the sofa bed inside bedroom, there's only space for you to hop on which is fine because we put the luggage on top of this treasure chest. It is a bit tight with the living room sofa bed open up so we fold it back up if it's not being slept on. The automated 100L (27 gallon) water heater goes up to 80F, but it gets cold after 2.5 shower, so we make sure not to wash dishes at night until all 3 of us showered and it takes more than an hour to get it warm again... Not sure how long, but don't use the hydromassage unless you are the last person or someone is not showering until much later.

There are restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets couple blocks away near the metro stop so this location is very convenient. There was also a roasted chestnut, corn and sweet potato nightstand in front of the Palos Metro so that was nice. Just one thing to note about Madrid in general is that there are a lot of dog poop so you always have to watch out on the floor.