I would summarize saying that staying at Rosa's place was to me something like the most similar to staying at my own home that I could expect, except I was in a totally new and wonderful city abroad. May be needless to say that Madrid and Spain are great places: kind people, beautiful sites, and a vibrating social atmosphere that may make you fall in love to this place very quickly. But besides all that, staying at Rosa's place was really an excellent choice: I stayed by 5 nights and was close to everything, did the entire city by feet (something I really recommend for anybody wanting to really feel Madrid), and Rosa made the experience even more special offering a lovely place, excellent breakfast, comfort and freedom, and even much more with her kind support and local advises. The surrounding neighborhood is convenient and alive, with plenty of shops, bars and local markets (Anton Martin market is one block away), the kind of places you may want to experience, attended by locals and not the "for-tourists" kind of expensive stuff. I was also a ten minute walk to/from Atocha station, what made it very easy to reach any other of the cool places Spain has to offer, like Barcelona, Toledo and whatever you want, by train or by plane, Atocha is a hub for you to get to/from anywhere! For sure, I more than recommend Rosa's place and I hope I can come back there sometime in the future!