It’s hands down one of the BEST Airbnb I have every stayed at!
PROS:
1) Ilaria is Amazing! She’s really responsive, super bubbly, very nice and uber helpful! We have different questions for her/favors to ask during the trip and she has been helpful and very accommodating.
2) Location of the apartment: it can’t get better than being next to the Colosseum. You will stay in the old Rome center surrounded by different ancient ruins. It’s very close to the metro station (4 mins walk) and Termini (two metro stops or 10 mins by cab). It’s close to many good restaurants, pizzerias and panini shops - some touristy while the others are not and Ilaria will give you great recommendations. I didn’t go to a bar in the neighborhood but I’m sure there are food bars as well. A pharmacy and Carrefour express (a grocery store) are also nearby. So in a sentence, the apartment is very centrally located.
3) the apartment is very nice, and clean and it is exactly what you see in the pics. It is spacious (maybe not in the eyes of a midwestern American but you know what I mean). The AC is certainly very helpful in Rome’s 90 degree summer. It has 1.5 bathrooms which is very helpful for a group of people. Ilaria has stocked the fridge with some beverages as well and you have all the basic kitchen cookware you will need, including a toaster.
CONS:
To us? None. Some review has mentioned that it’s on first floor / ground or zero floor so it can be noisy out. However because none of us are light sleepers and we are all pretty much knocked out as soon as our head touches the pillow after a long day out, it was not an issue for us. I did bring ear plugs and tried them out one night and they almost completely blocked out the noise. So if you’re a light sleeper, I will recommend a pair of ear plugs and that should solve the problem.
All in all, this so the Airbnb apartment I’ll definitely come back to and recommend to everyone I know that’s coming to Rome.