This was a much more modern apartment than we had stayed in elsewhere - it was very light and airy. The air conditioning units were a godsend because of the heat in the city at that time of year. We did have to be careful that we didn't trip the electric (only happened once) by using too many appliances at the same time, but it was easy to sort. We were a bit surprised that the apartment didn't have a living room but we didn't mind pulling a chair into the kitchen to sit around the kitchen table. we were often flaked out on the beds enjoying the air conditioning anyway (they were very comfortable)!!
we made good use of the washing machine and the clothes dried easily overnight in that heat.
the buildings in the complex were all really quiet while we were there and we didn't see many people coming and going.
Transport links are normally excellent into the centre and although there was renovation work being done on the metro line close to the apartment, the replacement bus service was 100 times better than any replacement bus service I have ever experienced in the UK!! there seemed to be buses every 5 minutes.
there is a good supermarket just down the road at the piazza (also where we got the bus from) which we used a number of times.
the kids loved the old-style lift in the building but we were just on the second floor so I never used it.
The Colosseum was not quite as close as we thought - it took us 35 minutes to walk there and we probably could have got one of the fab Italian buses to reduce the stress of arriving at the chaos later than you thought you were going to.
Fabrizio gave us plenty of detail when we arrived to help smooth our stay - and we really enjoyed it. Just for clarity though, there is no pool or hot tub in the apartment!