We had a very good stay in Flora and Silvio’s apartment. Flora organized a pick up from Fiumicino Airport for us and met us to show us how everything worked. She also booked us a taxi for our return flight from Ciampino. She gave lots of tips about restaurants and kept good communication with us.
We knew about the small shower and the bedroom stairs when we booked. But we booked anyway because the apartment was a reasonable price in a fairly central location in high season and it had a washer.
All in all we knew what to expect and felt it was a good base and good value for our 4 night stay in Rome in July.