accommodation in Madrid

Hello everyone

About our living experience in Madrid, we got the apartment through Aluni like most of people. Our address was calle Avenida Albufera 279 Madrid. It's in the southern part of Madrid, quite close to Miguel Hernandez metro station on line 1 (just 5 mins walk). The rent was not high, 363 Euros included internet and other utilities, but it's so far from school. In the first two months, we traveled to school by metro and it took us around 1 hour because we needed to change the train at Tribunal station to line 10 to reach school at Gregorio Maranon station. As you can see from metro map, there're more than 10 stops before arriving school. It's quite tiring and time consuming.

But then we discovered the better way to travel to school. It's another kind of train called "Cercanias". Cercanias has different route from metro. If you notice in metro map, you'll see the little red circle sign indicating which station has Cercanias train. This train is faster and cleaner. Moreover, you can travel with your Abono monthly pass. So, to travel to school by cercanias I took metro 1 stop to Sierra de Guadalupe and changed to Cercanias then just 6 stops to arrive at Nuevos Ministerios station. The travel time was reduced to 30 mins.

So, if you want to find accommodation with cheap rent, you have to live quite far from school and city center. We would suggest you to at least live within zone A and close to metro station that has Cercanias so you won't be so tired travelling to school. Another important thing is to have supermarket near to your place because you will need to buy your food and supplies at least every week. In my area, we couldn't find any supermarket around Miguel Hernandez station so we had to take metro or bus to nearby supermarket. There're big supermarkets at Buenos Aires station and Sierra de Guadalupe and one small supermarket at Alto del Arenal.

Good luck with your search ^_^

Titinart and Warin

 

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