The appartment is situated in a very central location near the Colosseum and Forum Romanum. There are bus stops, a taxi stand, restaurants, shops etc. nearby. The three bedrooms provide plenty of space, the kitchen/living room as well as the two bath rooms are quite small but sufficient.
Unfortunately we had some major problems:
* Andrea, the host, was not there when we arrived so we got no information about the city as stated in the description of the appartment, neither did we get the wifi password. We had to ask for it via text message first.
* There was construction work, which we weren't informed about, and the first night/morning was quite rough because of quite some noise. We got earplugs then and it was okay.
* From the beginning we were wondering about the heating system which seemed to work sometimes and sometimes seemed to work not at all. First we thought that this was just our subjective impression until during the third night heating failed completely and we didn't have any warm water in the whole appartment anymore. We contacted Andrea in the morning. We had to be at the Vatican museums at a certain time due to a reservation so we had to leave without taking a shower before we got a reply. After a while we were told that the problem was fixed and that the heating and the warm water worked again. Unfortunately this was not the case. We relied on the information that heating and warm water would work again. So we came back to the appartment because we wanted to take a shower as we had special plans for the evening and instantly realised that it was cold in the appartment and we didn't have any hot water. So we had to wash ourselves with a cereal bowl at the sink with water that we heated with the water boiler... And we had to spend a second night with outside temperatures of 3° Celcius without heating in the appartment. On the next morning Andrea came with two workers and fixed the problem about 2 hours before we had to leave so we could finally take a shower.
To be fair, I have to say that Andrea was very friendly. He also returned about 15% of the money that we paid for the appartment and apologized for the bad condition of the appartment. This was all a really bad series of unfortunate events.
Still the problem was created due to negligence in my opinion, there was a full day to properly fix the heating and warm water which didn't happen. Andrea said that the heating system was defiled and stopped working because the original worker he had hired for the maintenance didn't do his job properly. I found this also quite strange because in a "newly renovated" appartment one should be able to expect that the heating and warm water work.
We had a really great stay in Rome and the appartment was the only but quite severe problem. It was more like a survival camp because we were constantly cold and struggled to keep ourselves warm. It's really a pity because based on the many positive reviews we were really looking forward to having a pleasant time at the appartment.