The location of this apartment is great, close to the train station and the museums! The place looks new and very clean, the showers are high quality with good water pressure and the mattress quite firm comfortable and we had a goos sleep!
We stayed for a week and the host offered a long-stay discount. So the price was right to book for the short Madrilean late summer in October!
What came as a surprize was the fact that the apartment in located in a basement and the balcony/ back yard is actually an access to an air shaft for the building (and not quite clean, as one might expect from these sort of urban solutions). Being a basement it has a bit of mildew/ mold & it is smelly: the paint is slowly falling from the walls around the small windows that are placed high, as you usually have in a basement. Would have been good to know before booking since a have a small allergy to mildew and was coughing a-lot.
We landed very late and the hosts were open and friendly with our inconvenient flight and we were able to have a more flexible check in with the help of a friend. We would have been grateful for a coffee in the first morning after getting there so late (we only found sugar and some bad tea). It is a good option overall if you spend most of your time exploring the city and only come here to shower and sleep. And the price was ok for the area. It could have been even cheaper since it is a basement (no natural light during daytime).