Mun nicely let me arrive a little early and the apartment is beautiful and it's on a beautiful, exciting street; oo exciting, though. The noise at night coming from the street was like nothing I've ever heard before anywhyere on my travels. It was deafening! The acoustics of the cobblestone street and surrounding architecture amplified every sound from the street. When I wasn't trying to sleep, it was exciting to hear people enjoying themselves. But it did make a decent night's sleep impossible:The noise went on to at least 4:00 a.m. and despite the very comfortaboe bed, I had a very bad night's sleep there every night of my stay.
Know that there is a walk to pick up the keys for the unit. If I had known that I probably wouldn't have picked that apartment After two long flights to get to Madrid, the last thing I want to do is deal with an extra excursion carryng my luggage in a neighborhood where I don't know my way to get a key to the place. It's just an extra layer of hassle at a time when you finally want the "getting there" to be over. As for communication before the arrival, I was given : about the make of the coffee pot, for which I wanted to bring extra pods. He said it was a Nespresso and it wasn't. Moreover, when I was still in the States, it was frustrating to have to wait several days to hear back from him on one of my messages, and when he finally did, he ignored my question about the coffee pods. Finally after asking many times for an answer, I got one from someone else with you, and he also gave me incorrect information about the make of the coffee maker so I couldn't use the extra pods I brought. It was frustrating. There were no directions for the coffee maker or the air conditioning unit, so I never was able to turn the air conditioning on, (which would have helped with the noise from the street as I had to leave the windows open for it to be cool enough and so I couldn't reduce the noise) and not to the last day did I figure out on my own how to use the coffee maker. They had a note on the door saying in case of questions to email but I didn't bother because they had kept me waiting several days to even get back to me on a question before my arrival. I also didn't see why if a guest is paying for housekeeping Muni instructs them to take the garbage down to the street at night. It seemed unreasonable. So all in all, despite the beautiful apartment on the beautiful street, I would not recommend using this property unless you are a heavy sleeper and wouldn't mind the other issues I mentioned.