Great Location, great host
Review Submitted: May 16, 2009
Date of Stay: April 2009
I gave this a place a four because of the location and the host, Luigi. It is in an amazing location where everything is close by and walking distance. That is from the Vatican to the Forum, to Piazza Navona,to the Castle of Angelo, to the Spanish Steps. There are literally a hundred restaurants at your door step, all very good. You can also find small boutiques, coffee shops and a super market very close by. Just an amazing location for exploring Rome. As a plus, Luigi, is very kind, helpful and present to make sure he helps in almost anyway. I say almost because the Internet went out while we were there and stayed down for several days. We actually had to leave because it did not work.
Here is what I didn't like about the place and kept it from getting a five. It is small for American standards. The kitchen is impossible to maneuver for more than one person and the bathroom was next to the kitchen, which was not so nice when someone needed to use the bathroom. Also, the advertisement claims that is 2 bedroom. He has a fold out bed in the living room, which then gives you no place to lounge around. Finally, the washing machine barely holds one set of clothes and there is no dryer and since the place is so small, if you have your clothes hanging on the dryer rack all day trying to dry in an apartment then you even have less space.
To sum it up, we were very pleased about the location, the best, and the host was very nice and helpful. It's just that the place was very small, smaller than expected, with no breathing room, and the Internet went out and although Luigi called to get it fixed, in the end we had to move on to another place because I'm working while here in Europe.
Owner's Response: Generally i don't like to reply to reviews but in this case due to the genuine kindness of this renters i decided to do it.
I know that for travellers to rent an apartment abroad sometimes means to be surprised by new styles and habit of living, and i know that there are big differences between american and italian (roman) houses especially in the medieval part of the historical center.
This apartment has the classical size of the medieval apartments built in this part of the city: to have an idea consider that during those times the Sant 'Angelo bridge, very close to apartment, was the only bridge to cross the river (called Tiber) to get to Vatican so every one would like to own a house in this area creating a very chaotic but charming urbanistic style.
In particular in the building where the apartment is located there is only one apartment per floor and this is pretty rare to find and it creates a nice privacy for living.
About internet i can only say that i pay for the broadband connection and offer it to renters but (not depending from me) sometimes (once in 1-2 year) there can be some lack of connection for technical reasons, for this i can't do anything.
I'm very sorry that this renters had to face with this problem.
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