Is Sant'Eustachio a good area to stay in Rome?

Sant'Eustachio is the small rione filling the gap between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon - Palazzo Madama where the Italian Senate sits, the church the rione is named after, Corso del Rinascimento, and the coffee bar that has been arguing with Tazza d'Oro about Rome's best espresso for eighty years.

It is a handful of streets and every one of them is thirty seconds from somewhere famous. Navona is at one end, the Pantheon at the other, Campo de' Fiori and the Ghetto are five minutes south, and you will not use public transport once in three days.

What that costs is predictable: top-of-market rates, apartments rather than hotels, and no shop that sells anything a resident needs. The rione has almost no cars, which is pleasant, but delivery vans and the small hours of Navona still carry. This is a two-or-three-night address for someone who wants to walk out of the door into the middle of it.