Chueca Center - Estudios en el Centro de Madrid

The location is great but the apartment wasn’t worth the money we paid for it. It’s ground floor and the door to the apartment literally opens up onto the street. You access with a code and it didn’t feel secure. This isn’t a big deal I suppose but didn’t seem to align with the amount of money we paid. There was also something wrong in the bathroom that made it occasionally smell very strongly like a septic tank, and there were no windows in the rest of the apartment, so the whole place would smell like the bathroom, and there was nothing to be done about it. It felt like staying in a public toilet. The host also provided us with one roll of toilet paper for two people for four days. When we asked if they’d provide more, they said the one roll was “complimentary” and we had to provide our own. Their reasoning being this is the real apartment experience (?). I’ve stayed in other apartment stays and Airbnbs and never had this be an issue. It’s not even expensive, it’s just the fact that they’re willing to cut corners like this that soured it for me. You also had to send them an additional €300 before they would give you the code. It felt sketchy. I think this place is fine if you don’t care about accommodation and paying too much for subpar services.

Ran out of toilet paper