This was everything I had hoped for: clean, quiet and as private as can be when you're renting a room in someone's apartment, but with a private bathroom AND balcony, this was like staying at a very nice hotel, with access to a kitchen only 4 steps away.
The neighborhood has a good variety of cafés anf restaurant, at better prices than the center & Russafa.
My Spanish is very minimal, but Vicen is very organised and we used Google Translate for conversations, worked like a charm :)