Trastevere was a great location for our 15 days in Rome.

This property is managed by Lorenzo’s company, RomeLoft.com. I highly recommend booking the car service with Lorenzo. The service is door to door so you won’t be pulling your rolling bags on the cobblestone. We were met promptly by Honey with the keys to the apartment.

The location and the terrace are spectacular. Truly stunning views. In addition, having an outdoor shower was great to use during the hot, sunny afternoon. The location was ideal with many shops and restaurants all in easy walking distance. Vicolo del Cinque is a heavily walked street and very festive at night. But don’t worry, the apartment is quiet.

Unfortunately, those are the only highlights to this property.

The first disappointment was finding a hypodermic needle on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet. While it was unused and still in its sterile wrapping, it did not make any sense to why the cleaners would not remove this from the prior guests’ stay.

The kitchen is honestly not a proper kitchen. The layout is simply poor. Try making coffee in the morning and you will immediately know how inadequate this kitchen is. The kitchen seems to be outfitted from a really bad stateside garage sale. Not practical to cook just one meal during our 15 day stay. Our running joke about the kitchen was having only one dish towel to be found in the apartment then after the first cleaning it was taken away.

Additionally, there were several burned out light bulbs. One being on the wall at top of the stairs so we shifted a bulb from a floor lamp to the top of the stairs. Remember there are no hand railings so having the light on at night is more about safety than ambiance.

Finally we were told that there is a clothes washer. It was broken. We expected to do laundry at night but had to take a day out of our travel schedule to go to a laundromat.

In working with Lorenzo, he was very responsive to my questions and his company is professionally managed. One question to ask is if and when there will be any cleaning during your stay. We were not told that they would clean the apartment twice during our stay. We assumed the cleaning would be done after our stay. While we were surprised to come back in the afternoon to find our the apartment tidy up, it was more disconcerting to not know in advance the cleaning schedule.

In addition, what I find unacceptable was that our personal items inside the medicine cabinet were rearranged during the second cleaning. I can’t find a reason to touch personal effects inside the medicine cabinet during a guests’ stay. Nonetheless, overall impression of Lorenzo and his company are favorable.

In summary, we would not return to this property. Instead, we would look at other properties that Lorenzo’s company has to offer.