The house of Rafael and Emilia is one of those really old and beautiful townhouses ,the apartment is decorated beautifully with a very nice sense for colours ( in the sleeping room a little too dark maybe).Its position is perfect, in less than five minutes you are at the central market and by bike you can reach all the beautiful places in Valencia.You can find several shops renting bikes nearby. Make sure that you ve got the number of the agency and not only the one of Rafael before your arrival. We were lucky that he took the phone, otherwise we could not have contacted with the agency for the checkin and the direction was not that clear neither.Also they didn t respond to my last two messages. The checkin was rather unpersonel and I would have loved to get some insider tips in Valencia....which I always think is nice when one is traveling with airbnb. Rafael seems to be very friendly, its a pity that he is no more around, not even for the communication via airbnb. Its all done by an agency. In my opinion, the apartment needs to be more looked after and a little more attention, same like the plants inside of the apartment, noone seems to care too much about. The cleaning was quite regular, which I think is super important especially in a place with a lot of old and used furniture ( which actually makes it so beautiful)....after I ve seen that the fridge has not been cleaned and found some hairs in the bed, I felt a little unconfortable....The bathroom and floor were okay though. The last evening unluckily there were many cockroaches in the livingroom though there was no food on the floor. In summer this might be relatively normal in the old town, I guess. Still, there is some methods like tramps and gel to prevent against. The bed is pretty soft, but confortable for us( better than those super hard ones), but if you have a little more weight or one has more weight than the other it might be unconfortable. There is noise from the street, people drinking and talking in the bars outside and in the morning you can hear the cars and the people who are heading off for work early....but we didn t feel disturbed by it. It is just part of being in the old town. The kitchen, as it was already mentioned in other evaluations is missing some equipment, for example the pans are all completely scratched. It is a pity, as you can buy so many wonderful ingredients on the central market place. There was no flexibility for the checkout, when I asked if we could leave our luggage a little longer inside...it would have been nice if at least they would have checked at what time the new guests would be coming... have that in mind if your plane is leaving late like ours.you can leave the luggage in the station...