Our stay with Claudia and Marco was fantastic!

The room was impeccably clean and pleasant (pictures honestly fail to do it justice), and the same holds true for the attached bathroom. The breakfast spread laid out in the morning was delicious - the best that we had throughout our visit to Italy. So, all in all, yes, 5 of 5 stars as a rented room.

Where this visit shines, though, is with Claudia and Marco themselves. As hosts they are more than friendly, successfully creating an entirely warm air of welcome. I think it's a special character to make a stranger feel promptly at-ease and they were excellent at doing just that. I want to call that a "skill," but it's not - it's something that only comes with being genuinely kind and outgoing.

The strongest words of recommendation I can offer are these: when we go back to Rome, we know where we'll be staying.