Great place to stay in Madrid. The location is perfect it is close to many important places such as Parque el Retiro, Estacion de Atocha, which are a walking distance.
Host: Antonio is an excellent host he is very kind willing to help, he responded immediately to our messages, The TV had a volume problem and the next morning Antonio showed up and replace it with a new one. He also was willing to accomodate to our arrival schedule and was there to let us into the apartment which saved a lot of inconveniences for us.
Apartment: Good size for two people. Clean. it has A/C in the room and in the living. If you leave the apartment you should turn off the A/C and at night you should turn off the living A/C. The shower was great spacious and clean. Good equiped kitchen. Plenty of outlets for electronics and a good WIFI speed. I worked (my office is located in Washington DC) from there for two weeks having Teams meetings and no interruptions noted I conected a wire from the router to my computer though.
It also has a good size closet in the room,
Area: The apartment is located in a very traditional Madrid area where you can live a real Madrid experience, you see only locals going to the store for their groceries, walking their dogs, and doing their errands You can go to the close buy the Mercado de Pacifico (.https://maps.app.goo.gl/NJgVpkFZHHBqoa328) there you can buy super fresh fruits, have breakfast with real Madrid dishes or buy freah meats, serrano ham, vegetables, etc in a very traditional and Spanish place Across the street, from the building, there is a laundry (the apartment has washer but no dryer) there you can dry your clothes (1 euro 6 min) there is a change machine that give you Euros to operate the dryers. We left our clothes there and went back to pick it up 30 min later no issues at all .There are plenty of places to have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast is from 10:00 am to noon. Lunch from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and dinner from 8:30 pm till very late. For lunch you can have the "menu of the day" which consist of two courses plus dessert, bread and drink for 12 the price range goes from 9 to 15 euros. for instance we got Paella as a first course, fried cod with potatoes as second course and flan as desert with a drink called Tinto de Verano a wine drink with lemon and soda very popular during summer. To sum it up, the area is great with plenty options.
Transportation: The apartment has two Metro station 5 minutes walking Pacifico and Menendez Pelayo the metro is clean, very safe and ease to use. You can download the Madrid Metro app which give you maps, plan your route from your address or from a station. You can also use Uber, from that area we took around 10 Uber rides waiting less than 3 minutes. Not sure if we were lucky, but we were surprised by the short wait time.
Safety: Super safe, people walk very late at night in Madrid, women alone no isuues seen not even police sirens during the night. The neighborhood is very quiet.