The apartment is in a great location within easy reach of all major sights in Rome. It is comfortable and for the most part clean. The layout is rather inconvenient for more than a couple. You enter the apartment throughout the "2nd bedroom", and you must go through this makeshift bedroom to reach all the other rooms in the flat. There is very little privacy if two bedrooms are needed. The bathroom in the master bedroom is tiny. The shower is basically useless...as water floods the room. The larger bathroom in the back is nice and much more functional. There is very little natural light in the apartment...with only a small skylight in the kitchen and a window in the master bedroom that overlooks a nearby wall across a narrow alley. While the apartment is nice, the entrance to the building is through a small alleyway and some rather dark and dingy passageways. It took us a bit by surprise, but this is not at all unusually for central Rome residential living. Just best to be prepared.
Access to the apartment does not require a physical key, but rather a code and a secret buzzer to open the main building gates. While the door is like a bank vault, you can not fully lock it without a key. The owner should really consider providing guest with keys for a bit more security. Gate and building access is noticeable to any bystander, and a simple code that all previous guest will remember is the only thing needed to access the apartment. There isn't even an interior security lock for use when you are inside the apartment and there is no safe for valuables. We felt as though someone could pop through the door at any moment.
The apartment has everything that you would need. Bedding, towels, etc were of good quality and comfortable. Communication with the owner was also very good. Manuel manages this apartment as well as a few others, and he is responsive.
Would we stay here again? Probably not... Certainly not with two couples. The central location can not be beat, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the apartment. There were just a couple of things that surprised us that we're not quite what we had expected.