Ilaria and Ricardo were wonderful hosts, they went out of their way to make our stay enjoyable, and the apartment was BEAUTIFUL! The apartment was very large and clean, in a secured building in a great neighborhood in Milan, close to a metro station, with lots of good restaurants nearby. Ilaria met us to introduce the apartment in person, and left tourist magazines/brochures and marked good restaurants/gelato places/supermarkets on the map, she came by with Ricardo a second time to help us plan our trip to Venice the second day and with car rentals. Those help are invaluable when most of Italians do not speak English!

Just a few notes - there were lots of mosquittos, and there were no window screens, so be prepared with LOTS of repellants. Telecom Italia didnt seem very reliable - a mobile router was used for WiFi, service was intermittent, and we were not able to connect more than 2 devices at a time, even after Ricardo purchased a new card for us (Again, they went out of their way to help us!)