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Dear Jessica,
We enjoyed our trip to Rome and Florence very much overall. We were extremely pleased with the apartments we booked through InItaly. In Rome, we stayed at Monti, which is located near the Coliseum and a couple blocks from via Cavour. It is mostly a residential neighborhood, few hotels around. We also booked our airport transfer from the airport to the apartment through InItaly and while expensive, it was excellent- we were literally delivered right to the front entrance of the apartment in a timely fashion (although they had our arrival time wrong and there was no one to meet us- fortunately we both have Italian cell phones and were able to remedy the situation fairly quickly). The apartment itself is spacious, airy, and quite comfortable. Having a toddler, it worked out very well for us and I would highly recommend Monti to anyone with kids. Our only issue with Monti was that the floors (all tile of course, the norm in Italy) were filthy- our daughter was running and crawling around playing on the floor after we arrived and within 10-15 minutes her socks and knees were BLACK with filth. The floors in stocking feet actually felt tacky/gummy. We called Massimiliano and politely complained about this and while he was nice about it, he basically blew us off. He said he was there when the apartment was last cleaned and he had seen them mop the floors. Well, maybe so, but it wasn't clean. There also wasn't a mop in the apartment to clean it ourselves. Considering the additional 38 euro fee for cleaning on top of 200+ euro per night, I expect the floor to be reasonably clean. Otherwise, everything was great. We had coffee and cornetti every morning at a cafe nearby. While we had generally good food nothing was particularly exceptional or memorable. Living in Sicily, and thus not wanting or needing Italian food every meal, we were actually quite happily surprised to come across a Mexican restaurant (Ristorante Mexcico 104) on a little sidestreet off the via Cavour. While the food was excellent and mostly authentic, it was extremely expensive (10 euro for a bowl of chicken tortilla soup, 12 euro for a small plate of beef nachos). We also had a good Chinese meal at a ristorante on via Cavour which was good and reasonably priced (we ended up there because Trattoria Monti, where we had planned to have dinner, was closed for a private wine tasting and we had not called ahead to find this out). We saw all the usual sights in Rome ( Vatican museum, St. Peter's, Sistine Chapel, Coliseum, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, etc). Museums are difficult with a toddler so we kept them to a minimum. I didn't see what was so special about the Spanish Steps but we found a good enoteca nearby for lunch so that made up for it. I will say the Coliseum lit up at night was an awesome, awe-inspiring sight.
All in all, we had a wonderful trip and InItaly was very helpful in planning for it. This trip was the first time we had booked apartments to stay in and it worked out beautifully. I will definitely continue to use InItaly for trip planning.
Thanks,
Carl and Renee B.
Dear Julie,
Just want you to know the Monti apartment was very nice. Even though Rome was somewhat hot during the day at night we were very comfortable in the apartment. We had a marvelous time and even got to see Elton John sing at the coliseum for free. Thank you for your help and I would use your services again. Your web site was very informative and easy to read.
Ginny G.
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