Beautiful apartment, trendy and artsy. Very spacious and great for a couple or two friends. The area was ‘good’, easy to get around Madrid given its close proximity to the metro but there’s lots of takeaways and cheap restaurants below the apartment, with people pressuring you to come to their restaurant every time you leave the apartment. We got Ubers in the evening as the area just down the road from the apartment was scary in an evening with large groups of men gathered together as we are two girls in our twenties. The apartment doorbell rang several times a day with people trying to get into the building and asking which floor we were staying on, which also meant we felt unsafe during our stay.
The apartment itself was clean and fresh, but there was a distinct smell from the takeaways below - the hosts could do with putting some air fresheners in the apartment to disguise the smell. There was only one pillow each (there was extra in the cupboard but they had no pillowcases), the hosts said they would have someone drop off clean pillowcases the following day so that we could use the pillows but they never did, so we used them without cases on, which didn’t feel very hygienic.
Good facilities within the apartment which was nice.