I would like to give Nicola a review for his apartment, but we did not stay there.
We arrived at the address, with 7 people and luggage on the curb. The check-in directions say to check-in with building staff; There isn’t any, so I called him. Nicola said he would meet us in 5 mins and 45 mins later he showed up and told us there was a fire in the electrical room and we would not be able to stay in his apartment. He told us he made arrangements for us to stay across town by the colosseum at another apartment comparable to his, with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Being that we had been on the curb for almost an hour after flying for 12 hours, we figured we didn’t have much of a choice. Within 3-5 minutes we had 2 taxis and he escorted us to the new apartment to meet Ina. She went over everything with us and told us that there was a/c but there was no reason to use it because the weather was beautiful for Rome this time of year. The apartment was out dated and had a broken doorknob, no water pressure, no hot water, covered furniture and the
a/c was awful. In 1 bedroom it didn’t even work. She sent someone out to fix the hot water problem the next day after we called her.
Nicola was very apologetic and acted like he was doing us a huge favor. He told us there would be no extra costs and he would take care of the taxis and the difference in price for his unit to the new unit.
Upon writing this review I went back to the previous reviews and see lots of similarities in my review as in others. I also found Nicola’s exact apartment offered under the name of Ana. Also I saw Ina’s apartment under the name of Walter. This is very suspicious to me and the fact that it has happen a few times with almost the exact reviews makes me think something is fishy with these listings or hosts.
I understand things happen over a year from making the reservation, but I did not think I would be writing a review so similar to three other reviews that I read from previous guests. The reviews are from April to August of 2022. I booked in Dec 2021 for travel in late Oct 2022.