Unfortunately, due to covid restrictions I wasn't able to stay with my brother at Rafa and Luis' space. However, my brother did and I'm going to write down what he sent me as a review:
"I arrived to this Airbnb in December, during winter. I stayed for 18 days and I have found some positive and negative points about the place:
Positive:
- It's 3 minutes away from the metro (line 5), so it'd be easy for you to move around Madrid if you stay here.
- Nearby supermarkets, pharmacies, ATM's and places to find food.
- Nice area, there is a massive park right next to the place where you can walk, I walked there during the evening and I felt safe.
- Communication with the owners is easy, they reply to your messages and they try to help you.
- The shower is amazing!
Negative:
- The apartment has an odor combination of humid and tobacco that's impossible to get rid of. During the day, when I stepped out of the apartment, I left all windows open in the hope that the stink would disappear, but it was pointless since the odor stays no matter what. I ended up buying an environmental vanilla flavor spray, that helped made the odor bearable.
- Since I stayed during winter I realized this space is not thermally isolated which make it extremely cold, which brings me to the next point: the heater system is strange because the apartment has 2 floors and each floor has its own heater system. On the first floor I think the system is radiant, so the heat is coming from below the floor, and on the second floor the heater depends on the A/C, so the air conditioner expels hot air. What bothered me is that you cannot use both heaters at the same time because it will mess with the fuse box. So if you're sleeping on the second floor the next morning the floor on the second floor is going to be cold. Unless they correct the apartment's heater fuse system the place is always going to be cold during winter."