The good, the bad, and the ugly.
The Good. This is a beautiful apartment in the heart of Vatican City, extremely good location and consistent with pictures featured. All products mentioned (towels, hair dyers, etc.) were provided as promised. Quaint IKEA products designed each room.
The Bad.
1. Of the 4 beds, only the single twin had any padding/substance to it. I know everyone has a preference in mattresses, but the 3 doubles were extremely thin and unusually hard, even for my sister-n-law who enjoys a hard mattress. Her back was sore and I slept on the single twin as to not have the same (definitely not what I had planned as my trip of a lifetime!)
2. It is very noisy outside into the wee hours of the morning due to the location (on a corner) . . . but wearing earplugs helped. Just know this if you book this apartment.
3. The water system (in the closet of the master bed/bath) makes a noise all day/all night. Its like a 5 second swishing noise that sounds like papers being transported via a tube. It happens every 30 mins or so, but consistently 24/7. The first few nights it woke me up, but adding the earplugs somewhat helped.
So now I'm on to 2 reasons that I needed to wear earplugs and sleep in a twin bed on my trip of a lifetime, in case your keeping count.
The Ugly.
The water/shower system in all three bathrooms is completely unacceptable, as I have reported to Airbnb. It goes from minutes of freezing, to scalding hot without notice and then a lukewarm for about 1 minute if your lucky. I had a scalding on my forearm trying to adjust and my adult daughters gave up showering last few days with this fiasco.
I tried contacting owners throughout the beginning of our trip with this issue, to no avail.
So while I feel bad about writing all the bad with this otherwise beautiful apartment, the bottom line is we paid a lot of money for a lifetime vacation that came up short on very important points. Renter Beware.