We loved our experience in Rome and staying at Andrea's apartment! We arrived a little earlier than expected, but Andrea met us downstairs, helped us store our bags so we could go right into our full day of sightseeing and check into the apartment later on. He also gave us a bottle of Prosecco! So kind! The apartment is so close to the Colosseum, and close to a lively gay bar, but when we closed the windows, it was very quiet and easy to sleep. The ruins outside the window of this apartment, we learned, are of an old Gladiator training school!

The apartment is not really close to the center of Rome, so we had to take a lot of public transportation. It was a little difficult to figure out the transportation on our own and required a lot of additional research, especially as bus schedules change on certain days, and the Metro doesn't reach a lot of the sites we wanted to visit.

But overall, the experience was awesome.