We very highly recommend this apartment. The apartment itself is beautifully decorated and very thoughtfully equipped—from kitchen to bathrooms and bedrooms. There is so much care here you really do want to treat it as if it were your own home. Maria did a wonderful job welcoming us, even helping us take our bags up the stairs, and gave us a very thorough orientation to both to the apartment and the surrounding area. We really appreciated the booklet they have prepared for guests, which covers everything we wanted to know from bus lines to restaurants and sites of interest. The area, Russafa, is very liveable, with grocery stores and restaurants and cafes and taxis and buses all within a block or two. Because of the restaurants and bars, there is quite a bit of night noise that goes on until two during the week and weekend, which is audible from the living room, but less so from the bedroom. Be advised, there is no elevator and the apartment is three flights up a narrow spiraling staircase.