This apartment has some good and bad features. The bad ones are easily fixable. First the good: The location is excellent. It is on a quiet side street near the centre of town within easy walking distance to sights and shopping. For longer excursions there is a Metro stop just across the street. The apartment is (generallly) clean and well kept and looks pretty much like the pictures. The WiFi worked well as did the TV (although all of the stations are in Spanish). The bed was comfortable and the kitchen was very well equipped. The latter was important to us as we like to do our own cooking.

Now for the bad: A minor annoyance was that the oven did not work. However, since the cooktop and the microwave both worked we were able to function. The biggest problem was the level of mold in the bathroom. We are not talking about an occasional mold spot, but rather, areas of black mold covering square centimeters. It was absolutely disgusting! Given that we had to pay a 40 Euro cleaning fee I hope that Santiago uses some of that money to buy a bottle of bleach and a scrub brush.

In fairness, some of these problems might have been rectified while we were there if Santiago was around. However he told us that he would be in France when we arrived. He had two nice people to let us in and show us around, but they didn't speak any English and my Spanish is not sufficient for this task.

So, a mixed bag. If the problems that I mentioned are addressed then this place is a reasonable value for the money assuming that you are staying several days. For a shorter stay I would recommend nearby hotels as the AirBnB booking fee and Santiago's cleaning fee make the room overpriced.

Don & Bev