Saba's place is the place to stay if you want to experience local life and live as a real Valencian. Jesus / Patraix is a diverse middle class residential neighborhood where you find a lot of local restaurants, bars, bakeries and most importantly many take away places ( " comidas para llevar". There are not pizza places. These are places that prepare daily great local food and sell fresh for around 4 euros " a racion". Great value. Two decent supermarket two blocks from the apartment ( Comsum). On top of this, Tivoli restaurant offers a great lunch menu with quality food and tapas in the evening. You are also a ten-minute walk from Dulce de Leche the premier patissserie in Valencia. You are also near the Jesus market, a local market with a small number of friendly food shops selling meat, fruits ( including organic ), vegetables and all sorts of olives. The apartment and the building have recently been renovated and look brand new. The decoration is nice, practical, new, clean and comfortable. The apartment has central heating ( which worked extremely well ) and central aircon. The apartment is located two blocks from Patraix subway station ( Valencia metro is clean, safe and reliable) and from there you are two stations from A. Guimera which is the entrance of the Old Town and three from Avenida Colon which is downtown Valencia. You can actually walk to downtown / Old Town but it will take a little more that twenty minutes. We did it twice and enjoyed ( you can stop at Dulce de Leche on the way). The neighborhood felt very safe. By the end of our one month stay a number of shop owners knew us by name. It does not get more local than that