EXCELLENT - Highly recommend! Live like a true Roman. This is our dream apartment in Rome, great accommodation, location, and host.
The apartment is spacious and elegant, with antique paintings, old books, stone floors, and piano. Plenty of room with three (3!) balconies, two well-sized bedrooms with comfy beds and each with their own full bathroom, as well as a spacious kitchen with a gas stove, large refrigerator, and all the basics for cooking. The apartment also has good, high-speed Wi-Fi.
The neighborhood is one of our favorites. Everything you need and want for your stay in Rome: fantastic coffee, pizza, wine bars, and gelato as well as local markets and very good quality grocery stores. Monte Verde (Gianicolo) is a well-to-do/middle-class residential neighborhood with virtually no tourists, so you really get to live like a local. But, it is also just up the hill from Trastevere with all of the tourist activities, and not very far from the center of Rome (you can walk or take a bus very easily). The best part of this neighborhood is the parks: the Villa Doria Pamphili is very large, tranquil, and safe with tall Roman pines and plenty of benches. The walk along the Gianicolo is also wonderful, with plenty of green, history, and fantastic views of the city and the Vatican.
The hosts are fantastic and very friendly. They were very flexible with our needs and extremely helpful with everything. They even took time to give us a quick tour of the neighborhood so that we knew the best places for views of the city, cultural landmarks, coffee, pizza, and groceries - as well as to know where the bus connections were. They truly made us feel welcome and comfortable. Grazie Maurizio!
We were two people, but the apartment would very comfortably accommodate four adults.
We cannot wait to return to Rome, and when we do, we will definitely stay here again. Highly recommend for anyone wanting a very comfortable, elegant, true Roman experience.