Pros:
- The apartment is reasonably equipped, it came perfectly clean, and in a great location.
- The hosts were perfect: reactive, kind, at the guest's service, and willing to help in every matter, however small. Thank you!
Cons:
- the apartment is somewhat smaller than it appears in the pictures. Some of the space is wasted (e.g. the bathroom is huge and rather empty). The sofa-bed is not particularly comfortable as a sofa. There is no working desk, only the dining table.
- The building seems to transmit noise efficiently for some reason: the neighbours are not particularly noisy, the street is no noisier than Rome streets are in general, but, as a light sleeper, I was woken up from time to time. The bedroom is separated by the living room with a "glass wall" (with a sliding door), as seen in the photos. It surprisingly does a good job of isolating from the street noises, as well as from noises coming from the other apartment bordering one of the bathroom walls, but of course it lets the light pass through, which might wake some people up. If there's two of you sleeping in the bedroom, opening a large sliding door is noisier than opening a standard door, so you might wake your companion up.
Note:
I put three stars for value because the price was much, much higher than the price I paid every other time I visited Rome in the last 5 years. This is not necessarily a problem with this particular property, as most other properties I checked out had abnormally inflated prices (up by 50%-100% since last year?). But still, I think that the value/price ratio was not particularly great.