The apartment is as described, it's a loft/efficiency. Finding it can be a challenge though. The instructions given to find the apartment do not work out the way they are written in English. It took us about 30 min of walking around and asking to finally find the street. It's a great location, central to doing many things in Rome. Trash piled up outside and graffiti all over the building didn't add to any romance, but once you got past that it worked out.