Pietro’s place is ideally located - you can literally see the Colosseum from the front door! Plus with the metro station across the road, and within a reasonable walk of other attractions, you can’t ask for a better spot.
The property itself was clean, tidy and well prepared. It has a lovely little patio area too for those sunny days. There are loads of restaurants lining the streets nearby. One in particular - Contrario, on Via Ostilla - was a personal favourite, and only about 100 yards from Pietro’s front door!
If I am looking for any areas to criticise, I’d say perhaps the check in could have been smoother. We did arrive a couple hours ahead of the official check in time to be fair; but I had flagged this and was expecting to get straight in. Instead, we ended up waiting nearly two hours to get in. But it wasn’t a big deal; we just went to one of the local restaurants for lunch. And as I said, we were early and the place was available to us just before the advertised check in time.
Pietro kindly arranged airport transfers too. It’s worth doing at €50 each way because taxis from Fiumicino airport to the city centre can be tricky. Prices can be inflated if you pick the wrong taxi company (there are city cabs and non-municipal ones. It’s all a bit weird!). Plus from what I can tell, you can’t really get that journey for much less than €50 anyway. So the ease and peace of mind is worth a couple of extra euros.
Overall, it was a great stay. I’d recommend Pietro’s place to anyone. Comfortable, clean, nice part of town. - and I think it’s the first AirBnB I’ve stayed in with a decent iron on hand… Can’t ask much more!