Gracie hosted us in her lovely apartment in Valencia. We had a great time. The apartment was very nice, situated near the center of Valencia, just 10 minutes drive from the Valencia airport. You can visit the center of Valencia by walking about 15 minutes from the apartment. If you want to visit other interesting things we suggest a tour bus that drives from Plz. La Reina (about 15 minutes walk from the apartment) or subway (xativa station-Plaza de Bous de Valencia) about 5 minutes walking from the apartment.
We visited Oceanografic (beautiful aquarium; sharks swim around you-very nice), Bioparc (Unique zoo. Its design employs the “zooimmersion” concept, in which visitors are surrounded by meticulous recreations of the natural habitats being presented-we were so amazed by the gorillas playing, we could watch them for hours) beach Malva-rosa (Platja de la Malva-rosa-long sand beach 25 minutes away from the centre), old Valencia stadium Mestalla (not the one that is still building-we took a tour with a guide and learned some interesting things about the stadium and people in the Valencia), many of Valencia shops in the Colon street.
A few things about Gracie apartment:
1.Apartment has a perfect location, you are so close to the center of the town but outside of center in a beautiful part of town called Russafa.
2. Gracie send us instructions for entering and leaving the apartment before we came and before we left the apartment which was very helping (exact address of the apartment, gate codes for entering the apartment and the gate codes of the building
3. The apartment is under police surveillance so do not worry about your safety
4. Apartment is well equipped but what's definitely missing is a dishwasher in a kitchen.
Our recommendation for the host is to leave more kitchen cloth in the kitchen, more toilet paper, and more towels for the guests. Also, we stayed in the apartment with two small kids that can leave the messy floors so we recommend for a host to leave a cleaning set, broom, bucket and a cleaning mop so the guest can clean the apartment floors.
After all, we had a great stay, we want to thank Gracie, she has been a great host, we definitely recommend her, and her apartment if you ever visit Valencia.
Valencia is very nice city, you have to visit it.