Rented for a month while studying in Madrid. By Madrid standards the monthly price of this apartment is astronomically high but I thought I was getting a really nice, high end, corporate run apartment. Once I got there I was stuck because I'd moved a lot of stuff from another place. But for the last week and a half I just left my things and went to a hotel. So this apartment turned into an expensive storage unit.
If you don't want to read on here's the bottom line...nice location, terrible unit for the price. Zero money is going back into this apartment to clean it and outfit it to the standard of other rental apartments. Go stay in a nice, clean, modern apart-hotel for the same money. Madrid is full of them.
Cleanliness-Black mold in shower that I had to scrub out from between the cracks, a stained mattress on the bed covered up with a mattress protector, stained old pillows, filthy sponges left behind in kitchen, old food stains in cabinets. In the bedroom there's a whole wall that needs a plaster repair so they just stuck something over it.. There's no mop or vacuum supplied either so you don't want to stay here longer term. The sheets on the beds aren't new and crisp. Everything is old and cheap. The sofabed sheets were stained. Probably clean but stained and should be in the garbage. I just folded the bed back up and told my friend to go stay in a hotel because even I didn't want to stay in that apartment.
Noise-its an interior unit which is often quieter but here the space between the buildings is quite narrow so the people across the way are just meters away and it is a funnel for sound as well. With the windows open you will listen to the woman downstairs talk non stop. The neighbor across the way is maybe 4 meters away. She's very nice but your curtains need to be kept shut for any privacy. There's a dog downstairs that barks in the hallway at all hours...7 AM, 1 AM. It's sporadic and echoes through the building. The old plumbing squeaks incessantly. Sounds like a wounded puppy. The elevator creaking up and down and the guy upstairs walking around on the hard wood in his shoes sometimes till 3AM completes the symphony.
The kitchen - at the price point it's understandable to assume a kitchen has an oven. My bad. There's a 2 burner cooktop but it's difficult to use them both at the same time. The place also needs a proper set of pots and knives. There's two old non stick frying pans with the surface scraped off of them, one huge pot and one tiny pot. There is one kitchen knife - no bread knife, no paring knife. There are no ice cube trays, no vegetable peeler, etc. Very basic kitchen stuff. I bought a frying pan and some other basics like a bread knife and cooked one pan meals. The kitchen is so narrow that the refrigerator door doesn't open all the way. Bathroom is the same. if you are tall, your knees will hit the wall sitting on the toilet.
If you rent this place for a long weekend and your cleanliness standard is low and you eat out, you can endure. But it's not equipped for long stays and it should cost about a third of what it does.