It's rare that I write reviews, let alone negative ones, but my experience here was so far removed from the high ratings this place usually receives that I feel compelled to share it.
About an hour or two before we arrived in Rome, while we were mid flight, I received a message from the hosts saying that the balcony was unavailable, due to it being covered in scaffolding as the result of a construction project that according to the hosts had supposedly started that same day. Usually this wouldn't be the biggest deal, but to be honest the balcony was the only redeeming quality about this stay, as the main dining area, kitchen, and living room get almost zero natural light. Without the indoor lighting, which was harsh and nothing like the photos on Airbnb, it feels like you are stepping into a cave, even in the middle of the day. Luckily we don't spend much time at our stay when we travel, but if you are the type of person who does I would highly recommend against staying here with the balcony being unavailable. However, for the little time we were in the apartment, we were constantly plagued by the construction noises from right next to us.
What really irked me, and prompted this review, is that we were not told we would be living in a construction project with no balcony until it was too late for us to change plans. The hosts claimed that the project had just begun the day we checked in, however when I asked one of the workers about it they said it had been going on for "a while." This comes off as incredibly disingenuous behavior from the hosts.