If part of your enjoyment of travel is staying in “adventure apartments” where things leak, blow up, fall apart, won’t open, won’t close, break off, fail to work, or can’t be found --- sorry, you must look elsewhere. Paola’s thoughtfully planned and thoroughly functional apartment will not provide you with any hilarious or horrific stories. However, it is not at all an American-style apartment, but a very Italian one in a very Italian neighborhood. And Paola herself, like her apartment, is welcoming, calm, efficient, organized, easy to understand, and provides you with everything you need. There is even a giant notebook full of useful information in several languages about the apartment and Rome and the Testaccio neighborhood (our favorite area to stay.)
Although I suppose the apartment is technically a studio, it doesn’t feel like one --- it feels so light and spacious and uncluttered that the two of us (who are used to living in twenty times as much indoor space and way more clutter) thought we could easily live in Casa della Robbia for a month or more.