What a pleasure staying in Mikel's apartment! Exactly as the photos show. Very clean & easy to call our temporary home for our 22 days in Bilbao. It is an easy 10-15 minute walk to Casco Viejo for siteseeing the lovely Old Town, restaurants, Carrefour grocery store, ect. City bus stop just outside the apartment building door to get you anywhere in Bilbao with great ease. A very handy, affordable parking space in the building parking garage. Our Spanish is "muy, muy poco" visiting a region where English is not the common language this did not not bother us, we were able to communicate enough to have a fabulous time. Even though Itziar, Mikel's manager, doesn't speak English, we translated with our phones to communicate. What a lovely person Mikel has in Itziar! She is so patient, kind, attentive and sweet! Loved meeting her! We would most definitely choose to stay in Mikel's apartment again to visit this very lovely region! Great host!