This apartment is great! From the pictures it's difficult to tell how HUGE it is! The rooms are massive, and the ceiling is very high. It looks better in person than in the pictures. The location is perfect - just outside Piazza Navona and within walking distance to all the major sights. It's located on the 1st floor (2nd for the American standard), so you won't have to suffer with carrying suitcases up the stairs for many floors. And despite the lack of air conditioning, I guess the stone construction makes the place naturally cool - it was scorching hot outside, but as soon as you enter the building you feel that nice breeze of cool air. Perfect! But the real highlight here was the host. I've used airbnb 12 times as of this writing and Sergio has been by far the nicest and friendliest host I've ever had! Even though his English is not the best, we still managed to communicate and laugh using a mixture of broken Italian and broken English. He gave us a lot of nice tips about Rome, the neighborhood, restaurants, etc.

The only drawback is that contrary to what is indicated in the listing, the street is quite noisy at night. BUT pretty much everywhere is the old Roman city centre is very noisy at night. The whole region is very bohemian and there are literally thousands of restaurants lining the streets and hordes of people stumbling home everywhere you go at night in Rome. So I guess it's impossible to escape the noise if you want to stay near the places everyone wants to go. All in all, I would say this was a tremendously positive experience and I definitely recommend staying at Sergio's apartment!