A great flat in a fantastic neighbourhood - walking distance to almost everything you'd want to see and do as a tourist, including all of the main, normal tourist trail, plus many different interesting neighbourhoods worth exploring.
The flat is beautiful and huge - looks as good as the photos, if not better
Raul also was extremely communicative the entire time of the booking - and responded very quickly all the time - this was greatly appreciated.
This would normally have been 5 stars from me for sure -the only issue was with the air con - and I will acknowledge that Madrid was dealing with extraordinarily high temps, so I suspect the air con was under unusual strain recently. There are ACs in each bedroom and the main room. However, unfortunately some of the ACs were struggling and not that cool, and there also was an issue with a leak from the AC on the 2d of 3 nights in the main bedroom from the AC, so it couldn't be used. Again, this is not the Host's fault and they kindly offered to move us when I reported it the next day, but given how short our trip was - 3 nights and 2 full days, we couldn't spare the time to pack up and move. So the offer was appreciated and very responsive.
As I say, fantastic flat, almost any other time I'm sure 5 stars, but 4 stars due to having to sleep on the sofa for 2 nights in a not very cool apartment.
But I know they are going to get it fixed, and would definitely stay again.
Thanks.