We had stayed nearby in October and were looking for a clean, comfortable apartment with outdoor space and a usable kitchen in the same area to stay for a month.
Pros:
- The location is good on a meta scale. It’s close to Piazza Navona and Vatican City. The actual street is relatively quiet as it’s an alley with no car traffic, but it’s not very clean as people use the area to smoke and toss their cigarette butts.
- It has A/C. We were there in a very hot summer.
- The kitchen is small, but works well for cooking. It was fairly well equipped.
- The host supplied a yoga mat for me. He also gave us a bottle of prosecco.
- When a toilet wouldn’t flush, the host had a plumber out quickly to fix it.
Cons:
- My top priority was an outside space. I wrote the host prior to booking and confirmed it had one. When we arrived we found the space was a ventilation shaft. The furniture did not have cushions and birds fouled the area excessively on a daily basis. The walls surrounding the 10’ x 10’ space were about 4 stories high and had a lot of air conditioners venting to the shaft. In short, the outside space is not usable.
- The list of amenities had several things that were not there. Most of that has been removed since we mentioned it.
There was one roll of toilet paper, no paper towels, a tiny bar of soap in each bath, a tiny container of shampoo - all insufficient for a 31-night stay. The host said he just supplied enough to get guests started. I don’t know what Airbnb means by supplying basics, but other places I’ve stayed provide these through the stay.
- The smaller shower is unusable. It’s about 30” square or less. It has no rim so water floods the bathroom no matter how hard you try to avoid that.
- The internet is unreliable.
- On arrival the first night we found the bed sheet covered with hair. The smaller shower also had hair clinging to the wall.
In sum, price is low and it’s centrally located, but not without issues.