Ef ROME is the best thing that has ever… Ef ROME is the best thing that has ever happened to me, it’s the best environment, best teachers, best classrooms, the school is beautiful and it’s in the center of Rome. It’s been the best experience of my life, and I’ve just been here for 3 months. Now I can speak Italian as a native speaker. I really love this place.

Good and bad aspects about my EF experience The teachers are very good and patient so the classes are very useful however it's very difficult to book the activities online. Once, I paid online to have credits but the site hasn't downloaded them on the site. I couldn't book any activities for the next two days.

Sexual abuse has ocurred with an EF host Be careful! Sexual abuse has ocurred with an EF host in 2022 with EF Santa Barbara USA. The school and Teachers have been great. But the housing department and school management are amateurs - and definitely not looking out for the students (read: the customers) well-being. Our daughter was sent to a host family, where the couple was divorced but pretending to be married. They only wanted female students. And we quickly discovered why. They were having heated arguments - and the husband was being sexually inappropiate towards the girls living in his house. EF Housing and Management had received several complaints about this from other students who had stayed in that house, but had asked to be moved to a different family. Dispite of this, EF Santa Barbara sent my 18-year Old daughter to stay with this host family together with an 18-year old girl from Japan, who could only communicate through Google translate. The husband took advantage of this, and had been inappropriately affectionate towards the japanese girl. Finally after one week, she had enough and asked EF to get removed from the house. After leaving the house, she managed to explain it all to my daughter. But no one from EF found it necessary to remove my daughter. Only when we, her parents contacted the housing department, did they take action. The excuse from the management is that they lack good families after Covid 19. Our son stayed with a single mother, that served bad and cold food for breakfast and dinner. And she called him “Boy 2” and his roomie “Boy 1”. At Thanksgiving she had her family over for dinner, but did not even invite the boys. So be careful. Don’t expect to get anything but a place to sleep from the host families EF is working with. You can get lucky, though. After all the spectacle we made, our daughter was moved to a new host. A 92-year old lady, who took good care of her. So my advice, spend your money elsewhere.

EF is one of the largest communities in… EF is one of the largest communities in the world but despite that it is very organized pre and post departure allowing children to be better prepared for an unforgettable experience

Very organised agency Very organised agency, offers a lot of opportunities and it is affordable and trustworthy