As we were due to arrive before Check in time and cleaning was still underway after her previous guests, Paola invited us to drop our bags early on arrival into Rome. Paola personally met us and on our return from lunch (she suggested a couple of eating options close by) she provided us with helpful suggestions on what to see and how to best get around Rome, marking locations on a map for us. Paola lives in the downstairs apartment and offered to provide us with any assistance or directions we might need at any time.
Paola’s accomodation is clean and is in a very good location for tourists like us. On this, our first trip to Rome, we were easily able to visit all the landmarks and sights by using Paola’s place as our base. While we chose to use a Rome 72 hour public transport pass each, (very cheap and available at most newsagents and grocery stores), we covered most on foot over the three days we spent in Rome and hardly used our passes at all, often walking back to Paola’s for a mid day break from the hot summer sun for a couple of hours or so.
Our group included a middle aged couple and 2 friends. We comfortably stayed in the first floor apartment (up a short flight of stairs) which included 3 lockable bedrooms, each with a private en-suite, air con and a secure safe. The kitchen and living area was adequate for us 4 adults and also had aircon. There was a washing machine and Paola provided laundry powder.
I believe Paola also may have an additional one bedroom apartment available on the ground floor (next to her own apartment) of her two storey apartment building.
All was as described by Paola on Airbnb.
Paola happily pre- booked our taxi to the airport for our departure which made the next leg of our trip easy.
We would definitely choose to stay here again.