My first negative Airbnb review after 3 months travelling and staying at properties through Europe.
On the positive side this property is light and spacious. The beds comfortable and the bedding nice. The kitchen is well equipped. There is an iron but no ironing board.
Unfortunately the terrace is decrepit. It was dirty and covered in bird faeces and dirt. The wooden furniture was rotten resulting in a back and neck injury when the chair collapsed upon sitting. The host took more than a day to respond to the message to advise of this and then only when chased via watsapp. I attended a physio at my own cost. There was no further check in or concern from the host.
The apartment was not clean with a bad smell upon entering. The floors had not been hoovered or mopped and there were dirty footprints throughout. Felipe did offer to send the cleaner back but the delay in response meant we only had one remaining day.
The area perhaps could be described as up and coming. Both taxi drivers From the airport warned us that it was not safe to walk around at night and the first night when we went for some Indian food five mins from the apartment we were very nervous walking home. I live in east London and have never felt like this! There were large groups of men hanging around and selling drugs and heckling two females as they walked past. The restaurant recommendations in the book from the host were better areas and felt safer at night.
The square that this property overlooks is not somewhere you would want to be at night and the noise coming from this square at all hours can be heard inside the property. There is also a lot of noise from the property above.
A disappointing first stay in Madrid.