Before our stay our direct contacts with Simona were limited to few cordial messages and one call as she’s living in Naples and uses an apartment manager: we didn't see each others.
About the apartment itself: it is nice, very-well placed, 3 min walking distance to Piazza Navona in the very center of Rome, 15 min to Vatican. You are not far away from nice little restaurants or places to take breakfast. We are two adults and one child, we had enough space and it was comfortable for us. The second bed is the convertible sofa and is fine for a kid. We didn’t use the coffee machine. All bed sheets or bath towels are provided which is very convenient when you do not want to have too heavy baggages. I read that it was noisy before we went. There are some bands playing in the street but this is due to the usual vibes and tourist animation. As Simona’s windows have double glazing I have to say this did not disturb us at all.
As a point to take into account, I’d say that it’s not flexible on arrival (from 2 pm) or departure (10 am) time. I asked Simona one week before our stay if we could check-in before 2 pm as our flight was arriving at 9 am in Flumicino and estimated to be there around noon. It was not possible for her co-host before 2 pm. When we arrived, the manager was not there, we called her and she said she would be there in 40 min, asking us to go for a walk (not easy with bags). We saw her enterring the building and let us wait at the bottom of it. Obviously she had not cleaned or prepared the apartment. We waited approximately 50 min before we could go in and the result was not very clean (hairs, even lens on the ground). She also asked to take some pics of our passports which I found quite strange in airbnb context… We were happy to finally arrive so nothing bad. Maybe we had a common misunderstanding on the arrival process and I should have texted confirmation of my arrival hour but this was obvious from my message that we would be there on time as we would have not waited hours in the streets with our bags…
Finally, we were happy with our stay.