Firstly Noelle and Jay really are super hosts - very prompt and polite with communications and make you feel like nothing will be too much trouble.
The apartment is nice enough, I stayed in winter and the bedroom felt like a cosy nest and the central heating was fantastic. Plenty of hot water and excellent pressure in the shower.
Comfy (low) bed and good quality linens and towels.
Equipped kitchen.
Convenience of a washing machine for laundry.
Every way in which the hosts could make the apartment comfortable and homely they did - 5* plus for them.
But I felt the apartment itself has seen better days and needs a fresh coat of paint in places, it's looking a little shabby. The wifi was still patchy and unreliable even though they had just got a new extender.
You do hear some of the neighbours very clearly in another apartment...someone has a yappy barking dog which was annoying at certain points, and there was a beeping sound non-stop on my last day like a washing machine cycle that had finished, that drove me nuts.
A few down points that were out of control of the hosts.
The location is really excellent, right on my favourite street in Monti next to great food places and not far from the Colosseum.
If the owner freshened this place up, sorted out the wifi and soundproofed it a bit more it would be fantastic.