Pros:
- The location is ideal! Super accessible and centrally located. Close to the Vatican, close to the metro, and an easy place for cabs to find. Lots of food and shops nearby.
- The value is pretty good. Based on where this is located the cost is not bad at all.
- The place is fairly spacious and has obviously been updated. The beds are comfortable. The building has an elevator which is a plus if you are staying for awhile and have big luggages.
- The ac works well when all 3 are on, which is great during the hot months.
- The host can set you up with a reliable car service which is pretty helpful.
Cons
- The hot water is super tricky. First off it take a few minutes to get hot, then it gets scolding, then it goes back to freezing. You maybe get 5 consecutive minutes. Just know that if warm/hot showers are important to you - You won’t get that here. We had the maintenance guy come twice during our 1 week stay and it still remained problematic. He told us you have to give it some time to ‘recharge’ between showers so if you have 4 guests like we did, you need to wait 30 minutes to an hour between showers - when I told the iflat host this, they denied it and said there is ‘unlimited hot water’ to which I said ‘don’t take my word for it, come and take a shower for yourself’. All together the water situation is less than ideal, especially if you have multiple people staying here that all need to get ready around the same time. Not only was the water rarely if ever warm, but the fixtures in the sinks and showers spray all over the place.
- When visiting Italy I would assume you’d wanna eat, and you may have leftovers you want to reheat. Or if you are here for some time you may want to cook some meals in. Well, there is no microwave, oven, or working freezer. Just a fridge with broken freezer and a cook top that none of us (even the guy that showed us the place) could figure out how to use.
- there’s no view if you care about that kind of thing, but the location makes up for that in my opinion.
- It is clear from first glance that someone took the time to update this place, however unfortunately it doesn’t appear to have been kept up. It was pretty dirty and there was quite a bit a stuff left around including a broken table left legs-up which is pretty dangerous considering the legs are sharp. Also a light with a clearly broken bulb in it, and other random things that could have easily been removed or at least put away in one of the many cabinets. Whoever cleans this between guests is not very thorough.
Overall I’d say for the value and the location this is definitely a good option. The biggest issue is the water. Some other more minor issues are the lack of a microwave or oven and the cleanliness of the space.