This apartment is just outside of the mostly pedestrian old city center which is crammed with tourists & tourist traps, and we consider that location a plus. One can still walk to the Cathedral & the Alcazar in less than 15 minutes. Near the apartment is Seville's financial district, which has a number of nice restaurants to choose from. There are lots of nearby grocery stores. If you want a cheap but excellent Spanish breakfast, turn left out the font door heading towards the main street, on the corner across from you on your side street is a large cafeteria . An excellent cappuccino and a fresh squeezed orange juice will cost only 3 Euros for both, and they also sell a "lunch menu deal " for 8.50 euros a person. No tourists here.
About the apartment, the owner Isabel is pleasant but requires you to pay in person in cash rather than by CC in advance, unlike the 3 other apartments we rented in Spain thru Trip advisor, (this maybe a problem for some). When the hot water kettle broke, she promptly offered to buy a new one and bring it over, which was very nice. She ordered a Taxi for us for our departure. She lives in a different neighborhood, and can only give you generic neighborhood restaurant advice. The apartment is clean and comfortable, but not large, about 25% of it is hallway. We are not certain why the apartment receives such a high rating, as it was not up to the standards of the other 3 Spanish apartments we rented on this trip for about the same nightly rate. As one other reviewer has commented, one of the bathrooms (not the master) has an very bad odor, whether from the sewer or mold or both we are unsure ( the bathroom was clean). Since we were just a couple, we tried to use the master bathroom as much as possible to avoid the smell. I slept in the twin room and my wife the master, she found the Queen bed (newer?) to be comfortable, but I found the twin beds to have sad old mattresses, with saggy springs. The sheets came undone from the bed by the 3rd night, so I had to remake the bed and got a close look at its make up. Definitely time to be replaced. With these improvements, we would recommend this apartment.
One last note, the apartment is on the second floor and has an elevator. However the elevator appears to be TURNED OFF beginning in the late evening (time unknown, 11.00pm?) and is turned back on after 9am. We discovered this a bit late on a Sunday morning as we had to carry our 4 bags down the stairs.
