My wife and I stayed in this roomy, nicely furnished, clean, and comfortable apartment for 5 nights while visiting Madrid in October. It was very nice having so much space after spending most of our time staying in small hotel rooms for 2 weeks prior to arriving in Madrid. The apartment was easy to find with the directions provided. We knew we would be arriving around mid-day and Victor & Yoli arranged for us to leave our luggage in the apartment while it was still being cleaned. The friendly young woman who was cleaning the apartment came down to the main door at the street level to let us in after we rang the doorbell and showed us where the light switch for the lobby was located. The small elevator worked well to bring us and our luggage up to the 3rd floor where the apartment is located. She allowed us to use one of the bathrooms and showed us how to use the washing machine. We then left and returned after 3 PM when the housekeeping was completed.
The location near Plaza de Callao was very central and we walked to most of the places we visited in 15 minutes or less. The tourist information center on Plaza de Callao was open long hours and very helpful. We also found a large drawer with maps and tourist information in the cabinet near the dining table in the apartment.
We stayed in the large bedroom with 2 twin beds, a desk & chair, and plenty of closet space since the other bedroom with the queen sized bed was very small with no closet space. It was very nice having 2 bathrooms. However, it took a very long time for the water in the back bathroom to get hot since the water heater is in the kitchen.
The kitchen was spacious and fairly well equipped, including a nice refrigerator/freezer. The dishwasher worked well but we didn’t discover the low profile roll out top rack for utensils on the dishwasher until the second day we were there. The washing machine worked fine but the clothes were quite damp after the final spin cycle. The dryer was not very efficient. We dried a pair of denim jeans for 3 hours and they were still damp. We found it worked best to dry clothes in small loads until they were only slightly damp, then hang them up using the ample supply of hangers. There are clotheslines accessible outside the kitchen window stretching between the buildings and plenty of clothespins were available but we didn’t use them out of fear that we might lose some of our clothes since it was 3 stories up from the ground.
Victor arranged to have a taxi pick us up and take us to the airport very early in the morning on the day of our departure which was quite convenient.
It would have been helpful to have a folder with instructions for using appliances, heater & air conditioner, locations of nearby supermarkets, some recommended restaurants, and emergency phone numbers. A knife sharpener for the kitchen knives would also be nice to have since the knives were not very sharp.
We would definitely recommend this AirBnB unit to others and would definitely stay here again if we visit Madrid in the future.