This apartment would be a good place to stay for the short term, however for a longer stay, it just wasn’t comfortable nor well maintained and is seriously lacking in attention to detail.
On arrival, the persiana in the second bedroom was not working and was not fixed for several days which made waking up to bright sun very painful after a very long flight. The apartment is supposed to accommodate four people. However, it was extremely tight for three of us, and the second bedroom would only be adequate for children. The mattress in the second bedroom was extremely uncomfortable and I had to purchase a comforter to put over the top of the mattress just to make sleeping bearable.
There were only two comfortable chairs at the kitchen table so a couple of tiny outdoor chairs were provided as additional seating. For this price, this is unacceptable. Also, there was no coffee table or ottoman in front of the couch which made watching a movie very uncomfortable as well. For working from the apartment, the seating was not sufficient to sit for several hours at a time. The terrace was nice, but there was no lighting for the evening and the table is so small that there was no way for four people to enjoy a meal.
Our stay was for two weeks and no cleaning service was provided midway through. We also were only left with one set of towels per person for two weeks and had to ask for more towels which were provided once we asked for them. After two weeks, the apartment was filthy, as it would be. Any stay for more than one week should have a weekly cleaning service provided. This seems obvious.
The kitchen has a bare minimum of essentials, which again would be fine for a couple of days, but for a couple of weeks and for three people, we would run out of dishes daily. The coffee pot provided made enough coffee for 1 to 2 people so we had to make several pots a day which was annoying.
I will say that all of the appliances worked very well, but working the stove top required a long conversation over texting with Francisco, which seemed like a silly waste of time when they could have easily left instructions to explain how to work the stove top in the apartment. This is also the first rental I’ve had where you had to ask for the Wi-Fi password rather than having it provided in the apartment. It would have been very helpful if there had been a small book of instructions for the apartment as there was no walk-through upon check-in.
Overall, it seemed to me that this apartment was hastily furnished with no thought as to comfort of the guests. For a long-term rental, I would not stay here again, as I believe there were many other places that would have been more comfortable for the same price. The apartment photographs well, but it is not very livable for anything more than a few days.
The area is nice and the location near Retiro Park was very good. Francisco was very attentive to all of our needs but at the end of the day, he couldn’t make the apartment more comfortable for us for a long-term stay. The attention to detail just wasn’t there. If you plan on staying for more than a few days, I’d keep looking.