The location of this apartment was its saving grace. That and Giorgio, who seems to manage this apartment for Simone. We saw him once when checking in— he was extremely warm, spoke perfect English and had great recommendations for the area!
The apartment wasn’t clean when we first arrived— by that I mean lots of hair on the floor, I don’t even think the table had been wiped, sponge in the kitchen still wet, etc. We told Giorgio, who then sent the cleaning service to our place again to vacuum since they had clearly not done it prior to our arrival.
The apartment itself would have been perfect had things not felt dirty and cheap. Stains on the couch, the one table being unstable/feeling flimsy. It had all you need— towels, small shampoo bottles, washing machine, dishwasher... (A heads up: no coffee machine, just the Italian ‘Mocha’ you put on the stove.)
We stayed there for five nights in the beginning of August— unfortunately during this time, the neighbors next door and above (that’s where the sounds were coming from) had construction work going on. It was incredibly loud, and felt right next to you as you could feel the vibrations from the work they were doing. It woke us up around 8 am three out of the five mornings.
The A/C was an absolute necessity for the summer heat and worked pretty well (I think we had to turn it down a few degrees so that the cool was sufficient in the bedroom portion of the apartment as well). BUT, a word to the wise: be wary of running multiple machines at once as the electricity WILL go off in the apartment. We had the A/C, dishwasher and washing machine on and the electricity went out. Unfortunately, it was in the evening, so we had to use flashlights and couldn’t cook dinner on the electric stove. We had to wait a couple hours for Giorgio’s advice as fiddling with the fuse box within the apartment did nothing (solution: you have to go down to the ground floor entrance, garbage room, fuse box there, flip up the one for fuse 7).
As I said, the location was lovely, close to the Borghese gardens, Spanish steps, and (if you like walking,) a scenic walk away from popular places like the Trevi fountain, Sant’ Eustachio coffee shop, the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Trastevere, the Vatican, etc. It’s also easy to take the bus or metro around (you buy tickets for 1.5€ at tabaccherias/news stands/supermarkets).
To summarize: if this place were much cleaner, better maintained, didn’t have construction work right next to it, and had instructions on what to do if the electricity went out, we would have had a perfect stay. As it stands, we had so many problems here which unfortunately did not make for a pleasant or relaxing stay. Hopefully this review makes some of those problems disappear for future guests.