The apartment is in a really great location - very central to the main parts of rome that we wanted to walk around. There was a lift to the apartment on the third floor, which was really important to us as we were travelling with our elderly grandmother.

The furnishing of this apartment is really lovely too.

The kitchen is barely enough to fit our party of six in it, but highly functional. Using the moka coffee pot convinced my family to buy one for own home.

Massimo was also a great host, after sorting an initial confusion over our arrival time, he was very accommodating in allowing us to extend our stay in Rome for an additional night at the last minute.

In most respects, this apartment is a lovely place to stay in, in a fantastic location with a great host.

However, our experience in Massimo's apartment were fraught with electricity problems. During our stay we were fraught with blackout problems, which must have occurred more than 12 times during our 4 nights (mostly during the first two days). We understand that in old buildings, infrastructure can be a little unstable, but we got to the point where we literally unplugged every appliance in the house, only turned on 1 or 2 lights, and showered in cold water during our entire trip (we deduced the boiler was the main source of the problem) to prevent having to walk down to the ground floor to switch on the safety switch. This was a disappointment as it was a major inconvenience especially after a long day out exploring the city

To Massimo's credit, he explained that this has never happened to any of his other guests, and we hope that he would be able to fix the problem at the soonest.