- Apartment is in a quiet residential block that gave us a live-like-a-local experience
- Apartment is 5 - 10 minutes walk from 3 different metro stops - cal d'oro, casino & fondamenta nove
- The apartment is clean, well-decorated and super spacious
Few things to keep in mind (none of these were a big issue for us but just things to be aware of) :
one of the bathrooms has a tub with a hand shower and no curtains and thus was unusable for a shower. Our entire party had to share the single bathroom for showers
The apartment crib has wide gaps between the mattress and the frame and our daughter's head got caught in the gap during the night. Was a bit scary, but we fixed it by stuffing rolled up towels on the sides
The apartment has a ton of breakable things (e.g. ornate lamps) and things that kids can hurt themselves with (e.g. slippery carpets). But we were able to easily fix by putting away delicate & hazardous things in the ample storage spaces of the apartment
Our one bad experience :
We dealt with Philippe at check-in, While he seems like a nice guy, he has terrible communication and host skills. He came close to harassing us for paying the tax charges that needed to be given in cash and we didn't have enough cash on hand at check in. . Based on other stays in Italy, we assumed that we could pay the charges anytime before checkout and we didn't prioritize getting to an ATM ASAP to draw cash (with a toddler on hand and pouring rain). It resulted in an unfortunate altercation with Philippe at our doorstep, were we had to hear things like "there are a million ATMs in the city, you should have tried a different one if one was broken", "even if you have kids and its pouring rain today, there are enough of you for one of you to go draw cash", "you should read the contract that states clearly that the fee is due upon check in".
Upon check-out we dealt with Rodolfo and what a pleasant contrast that experience was!
Pro-tip : Request Rodolfo to deal with or make sure **above everything else**, you have enough cash on hand when checking in