We are on a driving holiday through France and Spain and have stayed in some lovely places with some charming hosts - this wasn't one of them.
We were held up getting to Madrid and were running an hour late for check in. The key holder kept threatening to leave before we got to the apartment which would have left us with nowhere to stay for the night despite our having paid for three nights, so our arrival was very stressful. The sole reason for booking this apartment was because it advertised parking on the premises, but when we got there it was clear there was no parking. What's more you can only park on the street outside the apartment for two hours. We phoned the host to ask what we should do but she didn't want to know; she said it was the mistake of Airbnb and we had to sort it out with them. We drove around looking for parking but everywhere we tried was fully booked. We phoned the host again and asked where we could park, she mentioned somewhere that was meant to be reasonably priced which I couldn't catch so I asked her to text me the details. She didn't, and when we tried to contact her again she had blocked our calls. We ended up getting a parking ticket and with this and the cost of parking for three nights in the only places we could go that still had free places it cost us more than 100 euros. A bit of help from the host would have made all the difference to what proved a very stressful time.
As for the apartment, it is newly refurbished and in a good location. But the photos are rather better than the apartment itself. The bed was uncomfortable, the toilet system broken so it constantly ran with water which was not easy to sleep through, the shower flooded the bathroom floor if used on full power, the kitchen sink was equally blocked, the decorated terrace amounted to no more than a piece of decking overlooking the lift shaft and just big enough for a clothes airer, which was covered in sheets and towels during our stay, and we saw a huge cockroach in the lounge and in the corridor. Would I recommend this apartment and host: NO.