Spacious clean apartment in the center of tourist action. We enjoyed the comfortable, ample (low to the floor though) living room seating, the double sink in the bathroom, good water pressure, nice shower set up, well appointed kitchen.
Beware however, San Miguel "market" (a big tourist tapas party) and the San Miguel plaza just below the apartment is a swarm of tourists with associated noise-voices, crashing glass- headed for recycling I guess. This noise most certainly comes into the apartment's living areas, but it does not invade the dark, quiet bedrooms further back in the apartment. There were relatively minor "glitches" in the apartment -overhead lighting was troublesome to turn off, AC made a sound that bugged me (but my husband and daughter weren't bothered) bathroom door squeaked, toilet trickled. All things to suggest that the apartment could profit from just a little more attention to keep it up to the "superhost" standard I've come to take for granted. That said, Carlos arrived exactly on time for us to drop our bags, they arranged a second key immediately as we needed one, Oscar came over to check on the weird AC buzz immediately (but wasn't able to stop it).
A "real" market is close by : Mercado de la Cebada. I enjoyed walking there and buying food for some dinners at home-one of the best pleasures of an extended stay in a European city in my opinion. The apartment is also situated close to SOL transport hub and in between Atocha (trains to Toledo and Barcelona) and Chamartin (train to Segovia) so we were able to make day trips easily. Great Flamenco is a quick right turn out the door. We walked to the museums and Retiro park.