Unfortunately, our stay at Serena’s airbnb was not what we had hoped for. The woman in charge of the place, Fernanda, was nice to interact with and prompt in her communications with us. The airbnb was cheap compared to many other options in Rome and located about 25-30 min by walk to the center and other historical areas. The room was spacious and clean. But there were issues that left us disappointed with our stay. The AC was manually set by the host at 25 degrees celcius - it was 31 degrees every day while we stayed in Rome which meant that by 8pm, the AC was blowing out heat. We had to ask for a remote and Fernanda insisted we do not go lower than 22/23 degrees. This caused for uncomfortably hot nights. The wifi was very weak and constantly dropped (we were staying in the room closest to the kitchen). The place is advertised as a bed & breakfast but you have to pay 3 euros per person per day for breakfast and the same amount per person to use the kitchen each day. The listing states free street parking but it was incredibly difficult to find parking and it is technically ‘not free’ (although we came to understand that nobody seems to actually pay for parking in Rome). But the biggest issue we encountered during our stay was the fact that Fernanda entered our room and touched our belongings while we were away for coffee. We came back and found her inside of it and when she saw us (she seemed very surprised), she quickly left the airbnb. We found our belongings had been moved around the room, some of them placed inside the cabinet/drawer (we had big suitcases and because we weren’t staying for very long, we did not feel like unpacking - although, we shouldn’t have to address this since no one should enter our room and touch our stuff without our prior consent). Fernanda called it ‘tidying up the room’ but this should not have happened. When we messaged her about this, she stated it was within the ‘house rules’ that she would come and ‘clean’ the room every morning after 11am (it was about 10:45am when we caught her in the room). She apologized the next day by bringing us free breakfast which was a nice touch but it still left us uneasy about our stay. Note worthy for travellers wondering about this spot and its ‘house rules’: cleaning of your room is at 11am each day (but we’d suggest opting out of this one explicitely with the host because of what we’ve stated above, unless you are comfortable with this), check-in is between 4-8pm, no noise in the room between 2-4pm (we didn’t understand this one - what happens between 2 and 4pm?), no makeup on the towels (all the towels are white), no luggages touching the walls (as not to dirty them), no noise after 10pm, no hair in the shower drain/sink. To summarize the biggest issue we had with this listing, the controlling nature of our host left us feeling as though we weren’t truly welcomed and autonomous as guests. It made it hard for us to feel relaxed within the space. We consider ourselves to be a respectful and discrete couple and have great airbnb reviews to back this up. A few hours after leaving the airbnb, we received a message from Fernanda asking us to leave her a ‘short 5-star review’… We’d recommend travellers to consider other listings and keeping this one as a back-up option, if need be.