We didn't think the apartment lived up to the description in the listing; it is not quiet and "cozy". It is an old shop, on street level, next to a cinema showing erotic movies. The photos do not show the glass frontage - from the outside, it looks liked a closed down shop, so many motorists parked their cars right outside. While the bed was comfortable, we felt uneasy - people would peer through the front shutters at times. The kitchen has no oven or dishwasher, and for the rate charged, I expected a better wifi connection (not a webcube). Download speed was barely 2MB. Contact with Maura could have been better - she took 13 hours to react to a message about a disturbance outside the apartment (there was a party held in the holiday let next door, with a music system outside). To be told "Rome is a party town" was dismissive - I expect my host to make sure we are comfortable at all times. Had we known everything about the apartment up front, we would have not chosen it. Monti is still our favourite part of Rome but we thought we would have more privacy. Had it been on the first floor, I think it would have been quieter. A greater effort to make it more like a dwelling on the outside would make it more comfortable - a bricked up front entrance, for instance? The area we love, like Via Urbana for instance but this apartment is not for us, due to the reasons listed above.