Max provided us with very good instructions to enable us to easily get from Madrid Airport to the apartment using the Metro. He also met us at the entrance to the apartment complex and then gave as a quick guided tour to the apartment (not hard as it is very 'cosy'!). He then gave us a much longer 'guided tour' of Madrid using a map.

Max was also very accommodating in terms of our plans for our last day, allowing my daughter and I to leave our bags in the apartment all day before we collected them and travelled back to the airport.

The apartment is in a former convent, which is currently undergoing major renovations. It is in a relatively central location, in a very 'real' part of the city; it felt before very Spanish and cosmopolitan in the area immediately around the apartment, but it was also very easy to walk to central areas of the old city where the architectural and cultural sights were.