Rafa's apartment is in a brilliant location. This was our first trip to Madrid so a bit of a guess about the area but it was perfect. The flat is down a quiet road so there was no noise at all, even at night, yet was only a few moments' walk from a square with restaurants etc and a short stroll of about 4 minutes to a subway, shops etc. We had two teenage grils with us and there were a lot of young inexpensive fashion shops really close which appealed to them. Sol was about a 5 minute walk, and the Gran Via (the Oxford Street of Madrid) about a 10 minute walk. The flat was very clean and well equipped although we were given only 7 coat hangers in the wardrobes for 4 people - and one was broken! There were loads of mugs, glasses and plates, towels etc, microwave, oven and even a washing machine. The only thing which I hadn't expected from the pictures is that the flat is really dark. It is on the first floor of a block (maybe 10 floors?) so the windows look out onto a small interior area. Every day we went out thinking it was a gloomy day, possibly even raining, only to discover to our surprise that it was blazing sunshine. One other thing, if you care about that sort of thing: the wi fi is almost unusable - you can't even load a page on line without waiting for around 4 minutes. Luckily the Apple store is a 5 minute was away and their wi-fi is phenomenal so when we needed it we just walked over there, but don't expect to have it in the apartment.