Our family of four just returned from our very first Airbnb stay. We stayed at Claudia’s property and had a GREAT experience.
Our first interaction was after we booked, and Claudia reached out to us first - inside the Airbnb app. Being our first Airbnb experience and our first time in Rome, we had a few basic questions and Claudia answered them all ahead of our arrival through the app. She offered to arrange a car service from the FCO airport to her property (at our cost) and we gladly accepted because we were 4 adults each with our own checked baggage and we did not want to deal with the mystery of taxi or Uber car-size vs our luggage-size upon arrival. Our driver met us at the arrival area with a name-card upon our deplaning.
Our travel itinerary had us arrive a couple of hours before the advertised property available time. The car service driver called ahead and Claudia met us when we arrived. She had a place for us to store our luggage and suggested a morning “get acquainted with the area” walk for 2 hours and provided us with a basic rundown of the local area, markets, piazzas, restaurants, etc. We kept ourselves busy for almost 3 hours before returning to the fully ready apartment.
Everything was as advertised with the property. The experience was GREAT.
Three major highlights of the property were (1) LOCATION (2) LOCATION (3) LOCATION. We were able to walk to everything we wanted to see on our 6-day trip. We cannot say enough about our satisfaction with the location of Claudia’s property. A taxi stand was just down an alley, but, we never got to use it because of the walk-ability of everything we wanted to do during our week-long stay. Also, based on research (a.k.a. “shopping around”) before we booked, we felt we paid fair market price for accommodations during our stay over the Christmas Holiday, and were very satisfied with the overall value.
THANK YOU Claudia for GREAT accommodations and hospitality during our week in Rome!!!