The apartment was clean, with wifi and a small yet workable kitchen. The terrace is shared with a next door neighbour, an information which is not disclosed by the hosts in the website. I came from Amsterdam and was straight on planning to arrive late (after 20:00) at the apartment. I did not realize (prior to booking the apartment) there was a EUR30 fee for after 20:00 arrival, but was conformed with the fee once I realized it just before my travel date. What really upset me were the incidents that followed my arrival to Rome:
The train connection from the airport to Rome got delayed, causing me to arrive at the host's apartment at 23:15 (I kept the host informed through multiple phone calls). The apartment is very secluded, in a dark street and the host's name is not apparent at the intercom. It took my boyfriend and I some 10 minutes pressing different apartments until we decided to make (another international) call to the hosts in order to request them to open the door for us. They did. Once we got up there, the person seeing us to the apartment was very inflexible with respect to the delayed entry fee. He said because it was after 23:00, they demanded not 30, but 50 Euros for late entry!!!! Everyone knows that travelling may lead to delay. I tried to explain we were merely 15 minutes delayed because of the bad train connection, but Dario (not cited in the website) was resilient. I did not have the cash on me, and next day he came to the apartment to collect his 50 Euros. My boyfriend and I felt a little cheated and a little conned. It started our weekend in a wrong foot and just overall spoiled our experience. The flat which was supposed to be a good value although in a more distant neighbourhood, turned out to be 17.5 Euros more expensive per day (plus multiple international calls to get a hold of the owner). A real shame the hosts had to behave that way.
We got no tips about the town, no sympathy and very mercenary attitude. A bad first experience booking through airbnb.