3 stars
We were two and our dog on our stay. Travel for work.
Lucrezia’s apartment is nice but definitely not the ideal place to book if you plan a more than a week stay. Not fully equipped apartment.
Good location, next to two markets and two bus stops nearby, though not very nice and neat neighborhood and neighbors are not friendly as well. The communication with Lucrezia was good. The check in is with a lockbox which is handy and fast, though I would have appreciated a welcome from the host especially for a long stay like ours. We checked in and the apartment was a complete oven, and we only found one small fan in the living room. No AC in this apartment. We were suffocating in our sleep so we had to ask for an additional fan and Lucrezia sent one the day after. We understood the host is not physically present nor near in any case you should need them, which is also not ideal.
We found no clear instructions, neither from Lucrezia nor the block, on how to take out the trash (hours, days, maybe in the instructed notes left), only were to take it out. We found out by asking Lucrezia for this.
The kitchen, as in the pictures, has a mini fridge (as the ones you find in the hotel rooms), with no freezing zone, so we had to buy our food each day – not very comfortable or convenient for our schedules and pockets as well. The counters are pretty small, not much room to cook sadly, as for the induction kitchen, it had four spots, and however, with luck you could use 2 at the same time. As for kitchen equipment, we only got two frying pans, a big pot, a small one - no lids by the way – two salad bowls and that’s pretty much it. We cannot complain of the dishes, this was well equipped with everything you may need. The living room area is next to the kitchen, and unfortunately is not very comfy so we couldn’t spend much time there, the pictures don’t lie. The TV was in a very high place and it’s very small so we couldn’t use that much either.
As for the bathroom, it is very spacious and comfortable, though we really thought that it was missing a washing machine. There is a designated place for it even, with all due connections for installation but no washer, a real shame. Lucrezia offered us instead a laundry card for a laundry mat almost 3 minutes away in car – we didn’t brought a car with us so that meant a fifteen walk each for getting our laundry done, for a month long stay. Another pretty important note: we found a lot of long hair and soup residuals which clogged the shower drain, which means they don’t check and clean those places – so we had to do it ourselves. A very disgusting thing you definitely do not wish to encounter in a supposed clean apartment.
As for the bedroom, it is pretty small but we fitted just right. Although we suspect the mattresses and bed blankets weren’t properly maintained and washed for a very long time, as they smelled like they had dirt on them and brought us a lot of allergy because of it. Only the double bed was made. We were left one change of bed linen for the double bed, and no linens at all for the individual bed. That also meant only one additional blanket for the chilly nights by the end of our stay.
The balcony is very spacious, we liked it, though again it was hard to clean it as the drain as clogged. Again we weren’t left with anything to unclog it so it started to smell pretty bad when you got near it.
OK, but not great.