A Great Location in the Historic area of Rome.
Luigi is a very good host. Very warm and helpful.
His apartment with two bedrooms is in a very good spot for walking to, in and around the historic center. There are numerous very good restaurants nearby including Carbonara, Scuie Scuie (highly recommended) and SM Maggiore Gelato (highly recommended). There is a good grocery store a street or two over for essentials and very reasonably priced beer and good wines. Our favorite two ristorantes were La Cicala e La Formica on Via Leonina, 17 (amazing gnocchi in a seafood sauce) and Scuie Scuie at 56-57 Via Urbana (amazing service and food).
The only downside is that on Friday and Saturday nights the nightmare outside crowd at the bar/ristorante Blackmarket Hall (a few doors down) is amazingly noisy and goes quite late.
The kitchen and refrigerator at Luigi’s is very small but serviceable. Luigi does provide the essentials like coffee and does have two Bialetti coffee makers - a plus.
The bathroom is clean and has good water strength and hotness in the shower.
This is a decent choice for a strategically positioned apartment to stay a few nights.
Despite the somewhat touristy feel a few streets over this is also an area that Italians flock to for great food and great cafes. We did find Ristorante Tavernelle to be entirely
tourist driven and suggest you avoid it.
Trieste pizza is very good but to be honest it is very expensive at probably three times the cost for a great forno e legno pizzeria available at most other places and for not even having leavened dough and without table service. Not recommended.
Beware the Rome pizzerias with high cost pizzas. There are numerous examples to avoid in the tourist areas.
There are good Italian vintage clothes stores a few streets over. Good deals on leather jackets and purses.
The area is very walkable. We walked
8-9 miles plus every day.