Living4Malaga The Secret Studio

The check-in procedure is not comfortable and you need to get the keys from a different address and then walk 10 minutes to the apparentment. Moreover, although you pay extra a cleaning fee, we requested our trash bags to be changed since they were full after three days, and they did not change them although they informed us they did. Finally, there was a weird smell in the bathroom.

Unfortunately, there were a lot of mosquitos in the apartment over the duration of our 2-nights stay, though we didn't even open the window, but we were still able to sleep. Even though the apartment doesn't face the street and the building is generally quiet, the neighbor across the hall played loud music until 1 AM on our first night (it was on a Friday night, so maybe during the week there is no issue of that kind); foam earplugs are provided but the only earplugs that worked for me were the wax earplugs I carry with me. The keys need to be retrieved at the Living4Malaga reception building which is 500 m away from the actual apartment (the road goes a little bit up, so not ideal with heavy luggage). The receptionist was lovely and helpful but we saw a lot of keyboxes for other rentals in the city, so this might be a more suitable option, especially if you are arriving by taxi. The apartment is rather dark, but as we were enjoying the city of Malaga during the day, this was not really an issue.

1) Had to get the keys in another building. About 7 mins walk from the apartment. This is not very practical if you have more than 1 luggage which happened to us. Our flight also came after their office hours so we had to bother to access their office building with codes. UBER was not very happy with this stop-over as parking was not easy and we caused traffic while I had to access the keys. 2) The apartment smelled of harsh cleaning detergents which gave me a headache right away. I addressed this with management which hopefully will be resolved 3) We lost hot water during shower. Hopefully, this will also be resolved for the next travellers.

The building where the apartment is located is not very well soundproofed (metallic front door, noisy hallway and stairwell...), but fortunately it was very quiet at night.