We stayed at Alessio's apartment so that we were close to the train station. It is a beautiful and spacious apartment with two double rooms - very bright and both had a balcony. We stayed on a Friday night and found it to be very noisy with traffic passing by (constantly) and a bar going till about 2am. The problem for us was we had to get up at 4am for an early morning departure. I don't know Rome but the area seemed run down (taxi driver said it was studenty) and was 20 EUR taxi (uber) into the city centre at rush hour and 10 EUR coming home that evening around 9pm. Upon arrival we were asked to pay 3.50 EUR each person for city tax. We paid this no problem but were not given any receipt. Whilst we accept to pay this tax, we expect to receive a receipt for any money paid.