My wife and I stayed here for a month, from Dec 7 to Jan 6. The apartment has excellent heat, excellent water pressure for great showers, a well-furnished kitchen that looks brand-new, a well-stocked closet including a first-aid kit and sewing kit, Paola’s own helpful guide to the city plus several guidebooks, lots of welcoming supplies including two bottles of wine and olive oil and bottled water, and excellent closet/armadio space for clothes. Paola has thought carefully about what a traveler might need, and she has done a great job providing it. The mattress in the largest bedroom was firm and really comfortable, each person had a firm pillow and a soft pillow, the window blind did a good job at blocking out light, and that bedroom got very little noise (except for the fireworks in the Christmas-New Year’s season, which were heard all over the city); the only tiny problem with the bed was the rubbery mattress cover, which moved and made noise. Paola was also responsive to two important problems caused by the record rains in the city, and she and her husband are incredibly nice and helpful.
For smallish problems, the stairs up to the bedroom level are a little tricky, because the large beam in the wall means that at one point a person coming down has to move forward while leaning back and to the left side; I hit my head on the beam once while descending, and my shoulder once while ascending. I also, on our third day in the apartment, hit my head on the metal box right in front of the toilet in the downstairs bathroom, and when I mentioned this hazard to my wife, she told me that she’d already hit her head on that box. Finally, the downstairs has a set of French doors that allow a fair amount of light into the apartment, but when we were there in Dec/Jan, there was no direct sunlight in the downstairs, and the apartment felt a little dark, especially since there is no real vista from those downstairs French doors.