This is a wonderful apartment, and Valentina was a great host! She did everything she could to accommodate our travel arrangements, which made everything less stressful!
If you’re looking for a high end hotel room experience, this is probably not the place for you. That’s not a knock on this apartment, though! What you get here is a nice little slice of Italy, right in the heart of Rome. This is a place that works just as well as a tourist who is in Rome for a couple days as it would for a local who is coming home after a day at the office.
The space and the area are both amazing. The building is very clean and quiet with convenient access to whatever you might want to do. The colosseum is maybe a six minute walk away. There’s a supermarket and a pharmacy maybe four minutes away. There are a handful of restaurants very close by.
Now, no place is perfect, so what’s the bad part about this place? Well, it’s the key situation. You need a key to turn the power on and off, and that key is grouped together with the rest of the keys so there is a bit of back and forth required to use the keys to move about. For example, I wanted to go out while the girlfriend wanted to sleep. There was no easy way for me to take the keys so that I could get back in without waking her while allowing the power (and thus internet/AC) to stay on. In addition, every time you turned the power off and then on, it would take a couple minutes for the internet to come back up. This wasn’t a HUGE issue, but it’s something to be aware of (plus it could easily be fixed with a second key).
If I ever end up in Rome again, I wouldn’t hesitate to stay here again!