It's a charming older style apartment with a quirky fun elevator, lovely decor and charming little balcony that overlooks the busy street below.
An older building means you can hear people living their lives around you but it's not too intrusive but is noticeable.
That's where my good news ends.
When we checked in we noticed a few items of washing draped over a stool on the balcony. The next morning they were still there before we left for the day. When we returned they were gone. We know the only way of accessing the balcony was through the apartment. We knew the person who entered would have to have a key therefore it must have been the building manager or owner. This made us feel uncomfortable for the rest of our stay. Each day when we returned we wondered whether they'd been in again. After we finished our stay I contacted Franca about this. She said the building manager entered to remove a previous tenants washing. She said she trusted him and did not seem concerned about it. I believe it is totally unacceptable to enter the apartment without our permission or knowledge. It's an invasion of our privacy and is not normal practice. If we hadn't noticed the washing to start with, we wouldn't have even known that he'd entered. That's a bit creepy for me. I don't understand why we weren't notified. We would have happily cooperated.
There was also a bad odour in the apartment that we controlled through opening windows. This made it a lot noisier for us. On checkout the building manager came to fix it as a previous tenant notified him about it. It's a shame it wasn't done before we arrived.
These episodes are a shame as the building manager and Franca seem nice but these episodes spoilt our stay on what otherwise would have been a great experience.