Pros: Excellent location, great neighbourhood, bike-sharing point outside the front door (ten minutes bike ride to Duomo straight up the Corso Italia). ( Bikemi.com highly recommended.)

Apartment is spacious enough for two. Bathroom is large but shower cubicle tiny. Kitchen is adequate except for coffee making. (Needs a larger espresso machine and a cutting board.)

Everything was very clean upon arrival. Plenty of shelves and storage space.

Cons: Maintenance for some items is poor: bath and shower drains were blocked (I bought some drain cleaner for 2 euros and fixed the problem.) Some light bulbs not working. Bath plug not working.

Bed squeaks like an old wooden floor. It is hard. But I found it comfortable.

The apartment suffers from very loud traffic noise - of which we were forewarned, so I do not complain about that. Windows are old and do not block all the sound. Ear plugs recommended.

Wifi did not work throughout the stay. We were assured that this was a line problem affecting the whole network, rather than a hardware issue specific to the apartment, and that it would be fixed within a day of our arrival. But it wasn't. On the morning of our departure, after four nights, there was still no wifi which left me with a grumpy wife ( I had a sim card with plenty of data, so no big deal) who doubted that the whole local area would be without internet for so many days.

Overall, mixed feelings. It's a great apartment but it could be better.