We arrived at this apartment on March 1, 2020– just a week before Spain began closing the schools due to COVID-19 and two weeks before an intense quarantine began. We had planned to stay in Madrid three months to try out life there for a while but never counted on this. We ended up extending the stay to a full five months. The apartment is unusually well appointed for an AiBnB, with lots of pots and pans and kitchen utensils. The heat was good in the cold months of early spring and the AC was amazing in the hot months of the summer. The building was mostly empty during the strict quarantine but even as people began moving in again and some renovations were being done in the summer, we heard almost no noise from neighbors or the small quiet street out front. There was a nice little roof deck to get fresh air on and there are tons of nice markets around to get anything you need— the Barceló was definitely the best in the area and not too far a walk. We wish we could have experienced Madrid as it truly should be experienced but this stay at least shows you how comfortable a place to stay this is. One negative: the washer dryer began making scary noises the second time we used it and was clearly broken on the third. Sometimes it filled randomly with water that spilled onto the floor long after we quit using it. We didn’t expect to get it repaired during lockdown and only had them look at it towards the end of our stay, but it had not been fixed by the time we moved out. There is a super convenient laundry across Alcalá on a side street that we did all our laundry at so it was not a huge deal for us, but if you are counting on that amenity, ask specifically.