If you will be visiting Rome, and you’ve been lucky enough to come across this listing, stop searching and book now! We were attracted by the location and lovely photos and the apartment is just as lovely as pictured and the location was also ideal. We walked to the Vatican and home from the Colosseum (with an 8yr old and 4yr old). Gelato, a small grocery, a bakery, and an ATM were all within walking distance.
What sets this apart is Eleonora’s incredible care as a host. We arrived by taxi from the airport without having had a chance to let her know the details of our progress, only our flight arrival time. Miraculously, she was waiting outside the cab door when we emerged! It was a great thing after 18 hours of travel with kids, to have her lead us to the front door of her beautiful apartment where pastries, wine, coffee, milk and juice awaited us!
She has carefully prepared all kinds of valuable information. Maps, recommendations to the best local restaurants, bus stops and schedules and more are all prepared on the desk. We wasted no time looking for things and spent all our time enjoying them.
All I’ve mentioned are enough for a rave review, but Eleonora went far beyond those efforts to make our stay memorable. She let us know that the day we planned to visit the Colosseum was a holiday, and helped ensure that we had cabs available in place of the bus so we wouldn’t be late for the tour.
We are especially grateful to her for going beyond her responsibility and helping us coordinate transportation later in our travels from a train station to the small village in Umbria where we were staying next. Our Italian and knowledge of train and bus schedules was not strong, and she made calls to the local taxi company, got the name and number of a cab driver there willing to pick us up. She helped me find the best train ticket, then arranged for for the taxi to pick us up. Sure enough, when our train arrived at the stop on a Sunday and only two other passengers disembarked, he was there waiting for us.
We couldn’t have enjoyed the accommodations more and couldn’t be more grateful to Eleonora for treating us like her own family, not just a family passing through.