Rodolfo Di Martino, a gracious host, works hard to keep his guests comfortable, well informed, and supplied weekly with clean sheets and towels. The Villa Pamphili Luxury Apartment is located in beautiful upscale Monteverde Vecchio in a lovely Roman neighborhood with easily reached supermarkets (the Despar and the COOP, both excellent), with a great nearby alimentari (delicatessan, sort of), easily reached buslines (the 44 and the 75), and traditional sidewalk shops (a frutteria, a newstand with a resident King Charles Spaniel named Charlotta, pizza a taglio [look it up], latterie [places to buy milk and sundries on weekdays and holidays], tabaccaii [they sell lots of stuff that non-smokers like you want], stores with electric parts [you might need a new EU style cord to plug in your laptop's power supply to an Italian wall plug; I did!]. There's even a Chinese-run general store full of handy stuff made-in-China everybody needs. Best of all your palazzo at 52 via di San Calepodio is about a seven-minute walk from the fabulous, huge garden with towering umbrella pines, antique statuary, landscape vistas, spreading green lawns, and even a genuine Renaissance palace, which was once owned by the aristocratic family, the Doria-Pamphili, which passed only recently to the public and is now a civic park on a scale like New York City's Central Park, and just as nice, or nicer. My wife and I took as many walks as we could in this park: go visit the canal and lake in its middle north section and enjoy the sight of two giant koi (carp?)----monster fishes each running to fifty pounds, one black and one blond, swimming along smartly in the deeper part of the upper canal feeding the lake, home to countless turtles, ducks, coots, and at least two white swans. The apartment is as advertised, luxurious because everything in it is new and works. It has a 40-inch Samsung TV with hi-rez channels, and it looks good. The master bedroom's sleeping couch (always extended) has a normal mattress: it's comfortable. Air conditioning units in both bedrooms, the bigger and smaller, work well and quietly. The newly and smartly-tiled bathroom with all new appliances, is nice, and so is the quite large shower-stall, well-supplied by hot water. The kitchenette, fully equipped, with its electric shiny-glass cook- top, is cramped, but we cooked everything we wanted to. The apartment is small, located down one floor from the reception area, but looks out upon a sunny space between two palazzi used as access for parking garages beneath. So it's quiet! Away from the bustling streets. And has a small, sun-filled terrace with decorative plants. Nice for evening dining. Space is adequate for two, would sleep three comfortably. With two bedrooms, each of us had an air-conditioned "office." Internet connection was 54 mps----adequate for email and light web work even with two computers online at once. Smallness means no room for a dishwasher or clothes washer. Doing dishes by hand is OK and Rodolfo Di Martino has...