This was a truly amazing experience. Lena, the mother of Paola who owns the apartment, met us on arrival. In fact she even arranged for an inexpensive, very nice, efficient and friendly driver to pick us up from the airport and take us to the apartment. Lena left us a lot of goodies to get us going and gave us great tips on restaurants and places to go. The apartment was an oasis for us in the heat of summer time Rome. We'd wander all morning, have some lunch and then crash at the apartment for the afternoon in air conditioned comfort. The apartment has all the mod cons and is only one flight of stairs up from the trendy Via della Vite street. It is 2 mins walk to the Spanish Steps and Piazza San Silvestro where there are taxis and a supermarket. It's also just down the street to Via Corso, the main shopping street of Rome. The apartment was only 10 minutes walk to the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona and the Pantheon. It's an easy cab ride to the Vatican (8 euros). The next time we come back to Rome we will definitely try to stay at this place. We can't speak more highly of our experience.