My boyfriend and I stayed in this apartment only overnight between a train and flight, so we were only there 20:30-10:00. Unfortunately it was not a great experience. The hosts were very kind and responsive so I'm sure they would have handled our concerns if we had mentioned them but we were already so tired and only going to be there for such a short time we didn't bother.

Mainly, things just didn't work properly. Individually they were no big deal but all together it gave a strange impression, almost as if the apartment was under renovations and they had booked us by mistake.

1. Lighting - more than half of it didn't work. Many light switches didn't turn anything on. The individual lamps either didn't have bulbs in them, the bulbs didn't work, or the plug wouldn't fit in the socket. The bathroom had only one dim light.

2. Air conditioning. Turned on, but barely did anything. The apartment was 27C when we arrived, much hotter in the bedroom (probably 32C). We closed the windows and set the A/C on the lowest setting ASAP but even after a whole night it had only gone down to 26C. The bedroom was too hot to sleep in. We ended up moving the mattress to the floor of the living room where it was cooler but I still barely slept.

3. Windows/screens. It is not obvious from the photos, but this is a basement apartment. There were only two windows and one of them was very difficult to reach. There must be a tear in the screen because within the first 30 minutes of being there both of us had several itchy insect bites. We ended up killing 3 or 4 mosquitoes. I didn't even know they had those in Rome.

4. Wifi. Very intermittent service, slow when working, didn't work at all in the bedroom/far side of the apartment.

5. Bathroom. Most showers have two sliding panes of glass, but this one was missing one, so the bathroom got soaked when anyone showered. Probably as a result, noticeable black/grey mould around shower, on roof of shower, etc. Bad odour. The cover of the drain slips off if you step on it accidentally and there are sharp pieces of metal underneath, I cut my foot in the shower. Shower had decent temperature control and good water pressure though.

6. Upstairs - Maybe you can see in the photos (I didn't), the ceilings are too low for a normal person (I am 160cm) to walk around. The bed is wirey and uncomfortable. The stairs have very sharp edges and tiny platforms, carrying luggage upstairs would be almost impossible.

There were probably benefits we didn't experience in our short stay - we didn't use the kitchen or washer but they looked nice. The location seemed great, very close to Colosseum. Truly lovely hosts. Just a weird comedy of errors when we stayed there.