Enjoyed a week staying in this Monti apartment. It is well situated in the heart of Rome in a charming old neighborhood with many nice restaurants and shops. It is walking distance to the Fora and Colosseum as well as Santa Maria Maggiore and many other beautiful early Christian churches like Prudenziana and Prassedere. It is spacious and has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with a large living room and decent sized kitchen, so was perfect for two women traveling together. It is generally quiet in the building and on the top floor (elevator access). There is a staircase outside where the kids like to hang out on weekends under the master bedroom window but closing the window helped, and in the mornings some construction noise could be heard in the building, but neither were a problem. There is no traffic noise from Via Cavour (miraculous). There is air conditioning that my roommate liked, but once she left, I found leaving the windows open was perfectly comfortable in October making the air not necessary and it was quiet enough to do so.
A management company does the bookings and they handled things well, including helping with transport to the airport upon departure for a reasonable price with pick-up right outside the door on Via Clementina. Taxis can get to the property too, despite much of the area being in a pedestrian zone. The apartment was clean, but we would recommend a deep cleaning since there was a little mold in the bathrooms and some of the dishes in the cupboards were dirty and disorganized, despite the dishwasher. My traveling companion said the hot water in her bathroom was inadequate and we never heard back about what to do about it (she was only there 2 days), but the master bath hot water worked fine and I enjoyed the large bathtub enormously for a nice soak after much walking around the city. We would also recommend replacing the toilet seats with basic models, as the combination bidet thing is not so good. Also, Rome is now recycling and separating trash (terrific), but there were no in-apartment containers to help us manage this and we had to walk several blocks to find the bins and do this ourselves (owners handled this at the other properties where we stayed). There is a certain impersonal feel when staying at a managed property and it lacks the tender loving care that we experienced in other personally-owned and -operated properties, but I found it to be a great choice for a Rome stay and recommend it.
