This is a difficult review, because there was a lot right and some wrong about this rental.
The good: The place is clean, the location is fantastic, and there are plenty of markets nearby to get supplies. The living room is good for gathering, and there's a good coffee maker (Nespresso), though it's breaking down and might need replacing soon. The light is very good, and 90% of the apartment is from Ikea, so the style is simple and modern. The beds are comfortable, and the Wifi works pretty well, though not reliably in the bedrooms.
The bad: There is a smell of sewer gas in the apartment, especially in the living room, that is awful. I don't think this is a new problem, as there was an air freshener can in the corner of the living room where the worst of the smell tended to come from. If you close the door to the hallway with the bedrooms, the smell in the kitchen and living room are ridiculously bad.
The "fully equipped" kitchen has a coffee maker, a water boiler tea kettle, a toaster, a panini press, really nice plates and bowls from Ikea. Standard Spanish small coffee cups (we bought 4 mugs and left them there for tea), and three decent knives.
With all that, there were only 3 flat pans, one of them possibly from a child's kitchen set and ridiculously useless, no sauce pan, bread pan etc, and one large pot for pasta etc. No pot holders. One kitchen towel. Salt, sugar and oil. That's it - no spices or other basics. I'm not sure that matters, but the pans are silly.
The bedrooms had broken window blinds -they'd been listed before, and we foolishly thought they'd be repaired. In my room, I couldn't use the bathroom or take a shower at night if I turned on the lights because there was a clear view to the outside and the neighbors across the street, but at least the blinds closed on the window next to my bed, so I could sleep. My companions' window had only a sheer white curtain, and the street light shone in their eyes all night long. We asked repeatedly for that to be fixed, and the night before we left, Minty Host finally put up a black sheer curtain (!) over the white one. It actually helped a lot, but how hard is it to put up a curtain?
Finally, the noise. I don't mind noisy places, and I live in the city. This wasn't just noise, this was like spending the night in a psych ward sometimes. With the windows closed, shutters down (what there were of them), that bar across the street was loud and rowdy and exactly what was expected. But there's a guy with issues revving his motorcycle starting around 5:30 am, and a hostel or something below the apartment where shouting, smoking, blasted drunk people were congregating, stooped in the middle of the street - I mean, it was CRAZY loud. Weekends obviously worse.
So yes, a nice place, conveniently located, nice people renting it out and very communicative, but yes, also a problem with smell and noise. Honestly, had the smell not been there, the rest would have been a whole lot more bearable.