Airbnb Assessment Adriana's place Infernetto Rome
Adriana’s place is described well in the Airbnb pages – comfortable, convenient, easy-to-live in, accessible to both the centre of Rome and to the beaches/sea at Ostia Lido and, more particularly, south where you’ll find those open and less-commercialize stretches of sand that contrast with the traditional seaside infrastructure of Ostia Lido. For this you need, for best, personal transport.
You can ride the buses from Infernetto into Rome (to Metro B at EUR or to the trains at Cristoforo Colombo station) - 10 minutes walking from Adriana’s place to the bus stops on Viale di Castel Porziano – in front of the Caffe Rispiro (your nearest best quality coffee/brioche), but this takes time.
About our accommodation, then. It was a case of ‘small is beautiful’ for the little stand-by-itself house with a separate and private postage-stamp of a garden and a car port out back. Everything in a secure walled garden. The services, care and attention of ‘mine host’ from Adriana & her husband Toni were excellent – 20 minutes introduction, there whenever you wanted further information/help and, at the end of the stay, another 20 minutes checking out. Other times we rarely saw them except when they were servicing our waste bins or moving around their garden. On one occasion, they thought we’d gone out and left the back-door open – but only one of us had taken the car out.
Good English (and a handful of other languages as described in the Airbnb blurb), and pleased to help with more than a passing word or two for those of us struggling with mixed/broken Italian.
Everything in the house worked well – kitchen to one side of the main living room, living room with dining, television and aircon, bathroom with plentiful hot water, and two bedrooms at the far end – one with bunk beds the other a double bed. Run the aircon for an hour last thing of an evening and the whole house cools ready for sleeping.
More than many other places in which we’ve stayed in and around Rome, it was the independence of the house in which we stayed, the lawn out back with trees and shrubs around it and, importantly, the quietness of the place. Sure, there are dogs barking – this is Rome remember and dogs take priority in most places locally but, apart from closing-down activities in the evening after a hot day in the suburbs (people walking dogs and dogs in gardens barking at them), the garden is quiet and peaceful. The twitters amongst you can follow the migrant bee-eaters in their aerial circuits chasing insects along the canal/drain at the back of the property.
We’d be pleased to get back another time. We shall see. Thanks Adriana & Toni.
Peter Steele
01 September 2017