Starting with the good of the apartment: location, location, location.
The apartment is between Piazza del Popolo and Montecitorio, just a few minutes away from the Trinità dei Monti. It is perfect and fantastic to visit the city. There are many supermarkets within a few steps that makes it perfect for filling your kitchen in Covid time when all restaurants are closed (sigh).
The apartment is quite large and gets a lot of natural light making it in theory very nice to spend time into. Check in was very punctual and communication with the host good.
Unfortunately there were several things that made the experience rather unpleasant at moments.
First of all the bathroom. The shower has a lot of mold which make it unappealing to get into. The bathroom design is questionable, with not a single hook where to hang your towels (and I mean it, not a single one).
The kitchen was a bad surprise. Far from spotless clean, several stuff didn't work. The main hob didn't work which made it annoying even to make a plate of pasta since the small ones take forever to boil the water. The pots were really old and scratched (the large pan was unusable) and since they are mainly covered with Teflon, it makes it even a health hazard. Light above the hob didn't work either. No proper ventilation over it so the place smells quite a lot when cooking.
All the furniture is also kind of old and feels like it was thrown in the apartment without much thinking. In the large bedroom there is a wardrobe that is dangerously moving (not attached to the wall and badly built). In the dining area the table was swinging a lot making it very unpractical to eat).
The curtains were stinking really bad like they weren't washed for years. You couldn't get close to them without smelling it and we had to keep windows open at all time. Same thing for the couch that was stained and smelled bad.
The terrace, while looking really cosy from the picture, actually overlook an internal courtyard with an industrial climate system, loosing for us much of its appeal.
Last but not least, the walls are paper thin. You can literally clearly hear everything is being said by your neighbours, especially when in the common area.