Reviews by Jan

Great Host!

Listing ID: 1229698186557 Category: Home Exchange Type: Beach House Country: Italy Region: Italy - Lazio City: Rome 5 Reviews Write a Review

I had my family reunion at this place. there were altogether 6 of us: myself, my three sisters and two nieces. We had a great week in Torvaianica, mainly thanks to Joanna's being a great host. She took care of everything in preparation for our arrival. She bought for us local transit tickets and left for us 2 prepaid mobile phones, so that we cold call each other in case we were separated somewhere in the city. All I needed to do was to leave the cash for Joanna at the end of our stay to pay for the transit tickets and the prepaid phones, as she did not like my offer to use PayPal for that purpose.

When it comes to the property itself I find that the garden is its greatest asset. The apartment is at the ground floor of an apartment building and as a result Joanna has the exclusive use of half of the garden around the building. The other half, separated by a fence for privacy, is being used by some other people that have another apartment on the ground floor. Since we were there in June, and it was warm outside we ate most of our meals in the garden. The only thing that we had to do was to have the outside table at one side of the building for breakfast , and at the other side for the dinner, so as to be always in the shade.

The coastal location gave us the best of two worlds. Every other day we spent visiting Rome, enjoying the beach in Torvaianica in between the trips to the metropolis. Torvaianica is just a little over one hour away from the center of Rome when using the local transit.





Jan - stayed June 2011 (Review submitted on June 20, 2012)
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