Alessandro is a good-looking, positive, friendly and polite man. However, our stay was “good” and not “excellent” because the pictures and description provided weren’t accurate enough to confront price over value.
The things we liked:
1. Pieces of advice given by our host, especially concerning gastronomic pleasures
2. Romantic interior of the bedroom as can be seen from the picture
3. Good (really cheap) price
4. Good communication with host
Things we didn’t like:
1. We were neither picked up not taken to the train station: no free transfer as advertised. Instead, we were provided specific information on how to get to apartment ourselves. We had to wait for Alessandro for some time, but we were late too. On check-out we were suggested to leave too soon so we ended up reaching train station 3,5 hours sooner, which was super-safe, but was unnecessary.
2. We had a bit of hesitation connecting Alessandro after we tried to fix WIFI with his help and even though it worked, it was of a speed of a turtle.
3. The kitchen amenities were bad: no knife, no pan, no oven, single stove, old pots. Don’t expect you can even fry an egg there.
4. City tax is an extra cost which was not specified in description.
5. The private bathroom shoud better be redifined to “separate” bathroom because there’s the general corridor what separates the room from the bath.
6. There’s a TV set in the picture and even though we wouldn’t touch it, for other people it may definitely be a confusion.
7. Located in a pleasant area, but without direct public transport from the area to the city centre. As advertised: not far from Trastevere, but if you’re first time in Rome, you don’t know Trastevere isn’t close to centre yet. The city/neighbourhood noise is above average because the sound of sirens was almost unstoppable: there’s hospital across the road; the kid behind the wall definitely likes to have fun until the late night and doesn’t want to go to school early in the morning.
Things to consider:
We are rather travellers than tourists but still on holiday. We came to Rome to have a holiday and we didn’t want to be attached to anyone so we didn’t contact Alessandro on WhatsApp too much. If you don’t hesitate about things like that, then be ready that you might need to because for your true comfort, we recommend you contact Alessandro before and during your stay, especially about the things that are important to you (eg. TV, WIFI, hairdryer, kitchen amenities or else).
Yes it’s cheap, but I’d rather pay extra and get a better comfort than contact host in need of basic amenities and get unexpected surprises like “non-private” bathroom, extra cost, poor kitchen equipment and other minor things.