When considering places to stay in San Sebastián, once I decided I did not want to stay in the old city owing to it being full of tourists and rather noisy, Maria's place was an obvious choice. It's close to everything - the city centre and the surf beach north of the main beach (which I preferred). The place was lovely and Maria was very lovely too even though language was a struggle. The place is worth it for the lobby of her apartment building alone which is like something from a David Lynch film. It was incredible.