Sadly we didn't meet Marco, who sounds like a lovely host. We booked on short notice and he was abroad, but arranged for us to be shown into the apartment. The place is functional and has everything as listed, but it just lacked a bit of presentation and that cosy, homely feel to come back to at the end of the day. We used the kitchen to make our own meals and having an oven and gas stove was great, but we could have done with a better range of kitchen tools and had to improvise a little, but it was fine.
There was always residential parking nearby so it was a good place to be based from with our car.