Our stay at Simone, Francesca, and Alessia’s place was good. It’s rather distant from central Rome, but we knew that when booking. There was a Metro workers’ strike the day we arrived so traveling from the train station to the apartment took hours. Our hosts were very flexible about our arrival time. We expected to be early. When we arrived a little past 3pm, the apartment was still being cleaned.
The Internet was extremely fast, nearly 600mbps. Air conditioning worked wonderfully. Both the living room and the bedroom had A/C. Spacious kitchen too.
There was a washer and laundry detergent which would have been good to wash a couple items. But we ended up using a local fluff-and-fold because we had a fair bit and we needed drying too.
The apartment was nice and spacious. Much more spacious than we thought. Plenty of storage space too.
However, the pictures make the apartment look more comfortably decorated than it was. There wasn’t a colorful bedspread or couch cover. The couch itself was uncomfortable. Not for sitting. Perhaps it would be better to sleep on but what was supposed to be a backrest was hard and at a true 90 degrees from the seat.
I always love the toilet and bidet combo. There was an issue with the bidet though. Its drain plug had to be removed by hand.
The shower didn’t have body wash so we used hand soap. We should have made a trip to a supermarket to buy body soap.
What threw us off the most were the signs in the kitchen warning that dishes must be washed and the kitchen cleaned to the crumb before departure to avoid an **additional** cleaning fee.
All in all it was a good apartment. For longer stays it would be most appropriate. We thank our communicative and accommodating hosts!