The location of the apartment is as advertised…it is very close to the train station and on a busy corner across from a great gelato shop. The photos of the apartment are accurate and the furnishings were fine. This might be a great place if you are in Rome for a short stay, you do not come in the summer, and you don’t have kids with you. Despite prior reviews complaining about the Internet, the Internet was always solid for us.
The listing says there is air conditioning. There was no air conditioning in the apartment during our summer stay, when temps were in the high 90s, and so hot that the area is in a drought and land so dry that fires started just outside the city.
To try and keep fresh air when we could we often tried to sleep with the windows open, but there is a club across the street and another club just up the street (neither of which is mentioned in the listing) and there were folks loud and obnoxious out in the street at all hours of every day. And so we did not sleep very much over the course of our 7 weeks there.
Despite multiple messages to M and continued promises to provide air conditioning, none ever came. If you stay there after us, you are welcome for the new fans in the apartment, which we eventually broke down and purchased out of pocket so that we could survive. (I was there with my mother and two young children…the lack of air conditioning was a big problem for us).
The tub in the bathroom is a jacuzzi tub, but don’t make a decision based on that because the jets don’t work.
Also, the stairs that prior reviews mention about there luggage issues, are also a gathering place for folks of all kinds, including late night and early morning people looking for a place to party.
Lastly, M is generally nice to speak to, as long as he responds to your messages. Communication was kind of difficult.