Here’s the good and the bad:
1) We communicated with Hernan who is friendly, responsive and kind and was always ready to help wherever possible. You may ask who Hernan is as he is not listed as any of the host. We did not communicate at all with the people that are listed as hosts during our entire stay.
2) The location is Palermo and it’s a nice 15-20 mins to restaurants and other hubs. The apartment is located in a dead end alleyway that always had some sketchy people around.
3) Internet is fast. If it does not go out. We had no internet for five days. Hernan was very proactive in helping fix this.
Here are the issues we encountered with the place:
1) CLEANLINESS: the place is filthy. There were white stains in the blanket, hair on the bed, dust over all the surfaces. There were still grease and lipgloss stains on glasses still, you get the idea. Hernan brought new blankets because the one left was absolutely dirty with brown and white stains everywhere.
2) MATTRESS: The mattress is quite worn out so you have the coils digging right into your rib cages. This could use improvement.
3) DARK: the place is overall quite dark. The lights do not lit up properly the entire place. However, there are always two LED lights that continuously blink even after turning off so you’ll never get a dark room.
4) VENT holes that let in bugs: there are weird two vent holes carved into the wall that lets bugs in from the outside.
5) Trash can: there was no trash can in the place.
6) Neighbors: it’s quite loud from the neighbors kids crying all the time, construction right next to your ears in the mornings, the mooing of the cows from the rodeo fairgrounds behind the building. I guess urban living.
The cost is low but really you’re not getting much for that cost. There are comparable Airbnb in Palermo that may be a better bet.