The apartment was described as "quiet, simple, elegant". It was simple, but it is not quiet. Elegant would be up to the individual to decide but we would have chosen "sufficient" instead. The thing that makes it good is the location (if you are looking for the major tourist attractions) but location is also the thing that makes it very noisy. We were there on a Sunday afternoon through a Wednesday morning so it was not as bad as it might be on a Thursday through a Saturday with a busy bar downstairs and, in addition, the large number of tourists and the conjunction of 2 major avenues as well as a major tunnel projecting noise directly at the apartment. The apartment has windows onto two streets; the living room (with fold out couch) window onto a very busy avenue and the bathroom window onto Via Crispi, this being the bathroom window above the bar. There is motorcycle parking under each window. I think it would be very difficult for a third or fourth person sleeping in the living room to get a good nights sleep. There is a bathtub that you can carefully sit in and use the shower wand. There is a washing machine and then a drying rack that you can open and place by the living room window. Please allow 24 or more hours for clothes to dry this way. You may need to bring laundry soap, paper towels or napkins, and possibly some extra toilet paper. To settle the issue on the number of floors to reach the apartment, it is 32 steps over 3 flights from the street to the apartment door. I'm 72 and my wife is 62 and we did not find this a problem.