Wonderful large home in a local neighborhood accommodated our extended family of 10 people perfectly. Susana taught us to make paella one night and baked a fantastic chocolate cake for our son's 30th birthday! She and Alex are welcoming, convivial, helpful and full of good advice. We loved living like locals, wheeling the grocery cart to the market, having a cafe con leche and a postre at the bakery on the corner, walking to the beach (Susana supplied beach towels, umbrella, bucket/shovels). It is fantastic to have 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, with room to spare--suited our large group perfectly, especially the large table that easily seated 10. The kids (ages 5-13) liked hanging out on the upstairs terrace and playing with the little mini-pool set. Neighborhood is typico...Saturday night was noisy until 2 or 3 a.m., but we also got to see some local women at their castanets class, kids playing futbol in the pedestrian street, locals having churros y chocolate. This is not a swank, upscale neighborhood (if you want that, book the 5-star, expensive hotel you walk past to get to the beach), but if you want to live and feel local, this is your place. The rooms are exactly as pictured, the beds are nicely firm (we have back problems, so we appreciated that), the bathrooms are modern, the showers are great and have plenty of hot water. During our stay, a hard-to-reach lightbulb burned out and a showerhead had problems, but both were corrected immediately by Alex. Occasionally there is a dank smell, the towels may be thin, the kitchen is small, a couple pans didn't get washed by the previous occupant, there were some dust bunnies on the floor, and one of the beds squeaked...but these are minor things. You can't beat the location, the local feel of the place and the warmth of the owners. Have tapas at the Gastro pub nearby, order bicycles delivered to your door, take the metro to the old town, visit Gulliver's Park with the kids, take advantage of the Arts and Sciences complex, get a bag of fat oranges from the market and make yourself some freshly-squeezed juice, schedule a day to have Susana teach you how to make paella, put on your flip-flops any time and walk 10 min. to the beach, and at night, lounge on the upstairs terrace after dark with a glass of good Spanish wine and view a bazillion stars. We had a fantastic time in this big welcoming house and would book it again in a heartbeat. Matter of fact, we're a little bit jealous that somebody else gets to be there now. :)