The apartment itself is centrally located in Old Havana on the fourth floor which is pretty much close to everything you need. If you cannot climb stairs with your luggage this may be a problem for you as there are a number of stairs. You have the whole place including the bedroom, a bathroom and a kitchen area. Your surrounding neighbors are a mix of locals and other rentals.

The check-in process was fine and Maite explained how to use the AC, safe and lock the doors. I do have a few issues which were both in the bathroom. The first was there was an ant problem from a drain under the mat. The second was that I found what looked like a roach in the shower and I am not sure if it came through the window but in both instances I had to clean it up before my wife freaked out. In both instances, I understand that I am in a foreign country so the cleanliness might not be up to the standards you get in the US so it is what it is.

My biggest complaint was the collectivo taxi, Maite helped arrange to go to Trinidad. As I have taken these in the past in other countries, I understood the shared concept however the one that I got into was just a mess. On the positive note the car was newer with AC however when it arrived it had one person already in it. I asked if they were going with us to Trinidad and they said no. So we drove away from the direction toward Trinidad and dropped this guy about 20 mins in the opposite direction. Then we picked up a lovely couple from the Czech Republic. They were going to Giron which is in the direction of Trinidad but really is out of the way. In between we stopped twice for gas. You would think if you gas up once why you would need to gas twice and it's because they only put a few liters in at a time. Although our host and driver stated it would take a little over 4 hrs to drive to Trinidad it actually took 6 hrs. I am upset that this was not clearly communicated early by our host as she knew the driver. Instead we wasted time and the driver got lost a number of times so I had to use my phone data to get us back on track. Just to give a perspective our return journey from Trinidad took 4hrs and 10mins with a stop for gas.

Nice place, quiet and in a great location in the heart of Havana vieja. Maite is kind and always reachable. She has a phone at home which you can use to contact her any time.

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Great location, room exactly like pictured, strong AC.