The location is very convenient: 10 minutes from Stary Arbat ( a wonderful pedestrian street with lots of shops and restaurants) and about 10 minutes from the Arbatskaya metro station (fantastic metro system and easy to figure out !). The building is not great looking, the apartment is not luxurious, but is spacious and comfortable and worked well for us: we were in apartment “Cream” with one bedroom, a prettty large family/living room with a double sofa bed on which our two teenagers slept, and a large kitchen/dining area with a 4-seater dining table, a pretty large bathroom. The bedroom and family room had ACs which was nice since Moscow was pretty hot for the first 2 days we were there. Everything worked smoothly : the pickup at the airport, Masha meeting us as soon as we got to the apartments and paitently answering all our questions. There is a phone from wich you can make free local calls. Masha gave us the phone number of a taxi service where the dispatcher knew Engish,and we didn’t have to pay more that 400R everhwhere we went. All in all, a great place to stay.