A great neighborhood which we appreciated very much: In a quiet street just on the border of the center (30 min by foot to Atocha) inside a vivid multicultural neighborhood with all its varieties of food, bars and atmospheres. Being able to do the laundry inside was also a welcome plus
very irritating is that in the advert text I could read prior to making a rental decision, it stated that check-in was available from 15.00 pm on. That was changed to 17.00 pm in the confirmation communication I received 3 weeks later just a few days before the starting date (very convenient for the owner after my cancelation periods). As I was already in Madrid the weeks before, roaming the streets for 6 hours with our luggage was far from a pleasant experience. The more because the original advert had also mentioned our option for bringing in our luggage before. Again not. Very disillusioning and my requests were in vain.
As become common in Airbnb adverts, the pictures are way too flattering to give a helpful impression. Calling it an ‘extruded duplex’ is a bit of a stretch. The height of the sleeping space is 1.40m ! The space about the mattress is a mere 1.00m, very uncomfortable to move in and out of the sleeping space.
The airco-heating system was installed very high near the sleeping corner. This limited its ability to heat the living room (hot air stays in the upper part of the room, and managing the configuration was limited) so that my partner kept on her jacket even inside the house (even exaggerated because we had to open the windows to ventilate the rooms every time we came back due to high humidity (common design flaws in spain). Add to these issues the hammering noises the front door of the building makes every time it is used, made us decide the next visit in Madrid to make other decisions on how and where to find short stay options.