I've got mixed feelings about this place. On the one hand, the good things are the keys pick-up process which was easy and smooth and the location (10 minute walk to Prado and Atocha train station, for example). On the other hand, there were some not so good things which were hard to ignore. We have stayed in different other apartments before but this time we were unpleasantly surprised with what we found:
1. The worst thing is that the electric circuits which were originally glued to the mirror walls have all come off so there are exposed live wires. I told the owner about this and he promised he was going to fix it. I doubt that he will because obviously the place has been like this for a while.
2. The AC unit in the lounge was not working properly when we arrived. We told the owner and it was fixed the next day. The small floor-standing AC unit in the bedroom was loud but no cool air was coming out at all plus it was too loud at night so we had to turn it off, which made it impossible for me to sleep.
3. There were no garbage bags and when I asked the owner what to do with the garbage he said that the cleaning staff will take care of it. However, in the four days that we stayed the garbage was never taken out. We had to use plastic shopping bags to put garbage in and just left all four by the door when we left.
4. The bathroom door has no lock. It has been physically removed from the door so there is no way to lock or even close the door when someone is inside.
5. The toaster in the kitchen was not working.
6. There is a Krups Nespresso coffee machine in the kitchen but no capsules, plus there is no kettle so we couldn't make any tea or coffee in the morning.
7. When we arrived the place smelt of chlorine. Obviously, they had cleaned it just before we arrived, which is fine, but they could have used a non-chlorine cleaning fluid. The smell was gone by next morning though.
8. There were numerous other bits and pieces which needed fixing (see photos), which means that the place badly needs maintenance. The great location is no excuse for not maintaining it properly.
Basically, the owner runs this place as a hotel (there are numerous mentions of things like the cleaning staff, plus all notices have got the Mi Casa Inn headers on them, there are standard hotel-type tubes of shower gel and shampoo in the bathroom) but the standard in nowhere near the standard of even a 2-star hotel.