The most incredible stay of our vacation was at Luca's.

Communicating and meeting with Luca and Nicole was like meeting old friends. They were immediately endearing and trustworthy.

Nicole met us at the Terimini arrival and walked us to the apartment. She insisted several times to take one of our backpacks and took one from us to help.

The unit is practically 5-10 mins walk from the train station (more about this later) and the apartment is on 7th floor with a nice elevator.

Nicole gave us a wine bottle, cookies, pack of cakes etc to welcome us. Sadly we could not get to the wine!

The unit itself was impeccable! Very tastefully and multiculturally decorated with many helpful maps - some left by previous occupants. Many books, well equipped and clean kitchen and bathroom. The unit is also very quiet and comfortable.

I must mention that the place is informally equipped - i.e., the ketchup in the fridge is not brand new sealed, and so on - however this is not a concern. It feels like a hostel but for grownups.

Now the unit is close to termini - this comes with a understanding that the neighborhood feels sketchy. There is graffiti everywhere and lot of strange folks are on the street. When you're in rome walking around with kids and a map and luggage - this makes you feel very uncomfortable! Nicole did address this when we talked to her about this and assured us that this is not a crime prone place and we should not worry about that part - and we trust her on this.

Having said that - we do not feel it takes away anything from the unit itself.

On our last date we had to leave our luggage for the day and met Luca at his unit on the second floor. He was also extremely endearing with not an ounce of formality about him. We picked up our luggage later that evening from the unit when no one was there - and found a lovely note with Wifi access details with it.

We loved out stay here, and we are definite anyone will.