This is a lovely apartment in a fantastic central location and easy walking distance to all the main sites. It’s comfortable, clean and fully well equipped with everything you could possibly want during your stay. Matteo is a great host and very helpful too and speaks perfect English. You will need to pay a tourist tax once you arrive. We a family of 4 (children ages 10 & 11) visited on 19th Oct for 3 nights. The children loved the apartment and their bunk beds. It’s very well designed with plenty of storage space and is bigger than it looks in the photos. Plenty of space for a family.

We got the train from the airport to Termini which cost 28€, kids are free. It was then a good 30min walk to the apartment, we only had rucksacks but the children were exhausted! Airport taxi rate is set at 48€ and it’s around 40mins. At the end of our trip we did get a taxi back to the airport!

Out and about, I would highly recommend booking fast track tickets especially for the Colosseum and Vatican but you do have to specify specific times. We bought tickets for the Colosseum but still had to queue for an hour. Rome is busy all year round and the queues are very long. Be prepared with sensible footwear, drinks (tap water is fine to drink, in fact very nice) & snacks. Another thing, brace yourself for the amount of sales people stopping you every few mins to sell goods, a tour, tickets, a restaurant table, etc, it does get exhausting! Don’t engage and they leave you alone.

Rome is beautiful, wonderful, and just breathtaking, at every corner there is something even more amazing. A good guide book like the Rough Guide will serve you well during your visit. The food, wine and gelatos are delicious and we hope you enjoy Rome as much as we did! Ciao!