Well...it was not a pleasant experience. Let's start off with the good and then move onto the bad.
The location is great for exploring Rome. Numerous public transit options nearby. Also some nice restaurants,bars and grocery stores with good opening times nearby. The check in process was very easy and directions to ther aparment were clear and easy to follow. The apartment was also quite large. The roof access was cool with some amazing views of rome (even though it is not mentioned in the listing). The nespresso machine was nice.
Now onto the bad...The pictures in the listing are not accurate and are highly edited. The apartment is supposedly newly renovated, but all the finishes look like someone watched 1 youtube video on home renovation and went on with it. The toilet is ancient and requires about 20minutes of recharge time between flushes and even that is sometimes not enough. The air conditioning that is supposedly "world class" is anything but that. It hardly kept the bedroom cool when turned to the lowest setting. The kitchen had pots and pans that were not compatible with the induction stove and while there was a dishwasher, there weren't any tabs for it so you had to wash everything by hand unless you felt like spending money on dishwashing tabs. There also was no kitchen towel and the whole kitchen felt designed by someone who has never cooked a day in his life.
The power also went out for two hours on one day during our two night stay.
Now onto the host...For someone with over 2000 reviews on his profile and many listings you would expect some form of professionality from him but sadly that was not the case at all. Mattia treats his apartments like a buisness and it shows. All his messaged are automated (not that there is anything wrong with doing that), but when you add long response times and the fact that he has no idea what is going on in his apartments it does not create a good experience for the customer. On the first night i spent many hours discussing with him that the pans and pots were not compatible with the induction stove. He insisted that it was an electric stove and that i was simply complaining because the pans were "old". Only after finding the exact model number online did he understand that he was in the wrong on this issue. The next morning he sent someone to bring us some new pots. No pan was available...The fact that Mattia never apologised for things like the power going out, the toilet not flushing properly and the kitchen that was not funtional was honestly pretty rude. On the morning of our check out i got another automated message from Mattia hoping that we had a nice stay, which was pretty ironic given the fact that the day before i had to argue with him for hours. Also the cleaning lady showed up 40 minutes before check out and she waited behind the door for the entire time. This only added to the feeling of us being treated like unwanted guests.
Now i don't usually complain this much about any AirBnb i stay at but there were so many things wrong with our stay that i felt to inform possible future guests that it would be best to find something else and probably avoid Mattias "Colonna Suites" all together.