The apartment is exactly as pictured with beautiful brick and lovely wooden floors (if you like to walk around in socks, careful, you may snag). My kids prefer modern décor and so were less impressed, but my wife and I found it to be cozy with a lot of character.
The apt. is in a great location about a 5 minute walk to the metro and 15 min. walk to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha (if your luggage is heavy you will feel it), and just around the corner from the Reina Sofia museum, a 24-hour market, good restaurants, great coffee shops, etc. The host didn’t have time to give us any restaurant or area tips, but yelp & google worked fine.
We are using AirBnBs only for our 4 week trip in Spain so a lot of my comments compare what we’ve seen and are not meant as either negative or positive
General: The front door has a lot of deadbolts; very secure. There are a lot of switches; it can be quite challenging to turn on/off a light. The wi-fi is the fastest so far at 226 mbps up / 204 mbps down (we’ve seen as slow as 7.8 / 0.63 which is still decent).
Bedrooms: the beds are very comfortable, but there are no nightstands for glasses/phones/etc., but chairs, pillows can be used instead.
Kitchen: The stove works great & heats up food fast. The washer/dryer combo was challenging to use (since we don’t read Spanish) but we went to the Bosch web site and read manuals for other models to figure it out. There is a coffee maker but no coffee pods (another AirBnB had some for us but I don’t think that’s normal). No hand soap in the kitchen, but there was a little dish soap.
Bathroom: Towels are large, soft and comfy. As another reviewer noted, both showers have a tendency to drain slowly. You have to avoid turning the water flow full on; you may even have to turn off the water until the puddle subsides. Garbage cans are small and tend to flip over. Almost no hand soap at the sink & a small amount of shampoo in the shower (another host had tiny little bottles of these for us; just like a hotel).
Overall, this is a great place with a great host and I highly recommend it.