I landed late at night. Ernesto had sent me an email with detailed directions of how to get in and where my room was in case he was not there. The place was easy to find.

2 things disappointed me when I got there. First, one of the house rules was to be quiet after 10pm, but there were 10-15 people still there from a house concert they had earlier and they were extremely loud and it was after 11pm. I was exhausted and was getting up early to explore the city and I just wanted to sleep. My second shock and disappointment was that Ernesto showed me my room. I was by myself and when I booked it said private room. Turns out that this is basically a hostel. Just like the picture, there were 2 sets of bunk beds, so other people were in and out during my stay. I'm not against hostels, but I would've booked an actual hostel and saved myself $50 if I had known.

I also wasn't given a towel or told where they were, so luckily my roommates woke up not too long after me in the morning and I was able to ask them. Also, coming from America, it was a bit of a shock that I had to hold the shower hose to shower. There is hot water, but only for about 20 or so minutes, if you don't have the pressure all the way up, so if you want a hot shower u need to be first up! I was lucky my first 2 days, but my last day I turned the pressure all the way up and lost hot water after about 10 minutes.

Overall, despite the 2 big disappointments, it's a really cool place to stay and I actually hung out with 3 of the people that stayed in my room and they were cool. Ernesto is super nice and chill.

If you're not opposed to walking, it's about a half-hour walk to Vatican City and the Coluseum. Everything is is within walking distance from those. I also discovered that they have outdoor movies the next street over at 9:15pm every night over the summer. Most of them are in Italian with English subtitles.

Even though it ended up being a cool place, I personally wouldn't probably stay there again, though, just because it is basically a hostel, but more expensive than one.