We did not have such a great experience at Maria's place. First of all despite calling Maria on the outskirts of the city (as requested) and when we arrived, we were still left waiting for 25 minutes outside the apartment and had to call her again to get her to come. Maybe it was a communication issue but it was very inconvenient for us to be left waiting in our car down a narrow cobbled street constantly having to reverse and move it for other vehicles.
Anyway the apartment is as it is in the pictures, stylish, spacious and it's clean although the double bed is small. Location is good - you can walk everywhere and the neighbourhood is nice.
Unfortunately however the apartment also had no hot water - we informed Maria as soon as we discovered it but she insisted it would work if we turned on a combination of other taps and just waited... we tried everything but there was still no hot water. We repeatedly had to contact her about it and eventually she came over and fixed it on our final afternoon (the boiler was broken and wouldn't start up). This meant we had cold showers our entire stay and only had one hot shower the morning we checked out. This was a stressful situation - all weekend constantly having to ask her to fix the issue and we just wish it had been fixed as soon as we first notified her. We loved Seville but sadly the entire apartment situation did impact on our enjoyment of the weekend.