Good communication before the stay, the host was always responsive and even accepted our request to send some bottles of nice wine at the house from France, but totally disappointing experience during the actual stay. The house is in a very nice location, though very very noisy at night, with loud music and loud voices going on till 3, 4 am. Unfortunately, even though we relied on the positive reviews, the whole experience has been negative. First of all, very bad check in, with an unknown lady waiting for us, with no direct relations with the host (an American friend of a friend of the host she said). She was very nice but knew nothing about the house, didn't explain how the kitchen worked, and since the kitchen controls are very complicated - and all the signs erased - it was impossible to cook on the first night. The host then sent a person upon our call, who explained that you had to turn the control, then make it click two times then it works (absolutely nonsense since there are no signs, you never understand the level of heat in the oven etc etc).
The main problems where related to the upstairs area though, where the bedrooms are. We had booked for two couples and one child, but now I can say that very luckily the couple with the child could not come, because I c'ant imagine 5 people in this house:
- The double bedroom in one of the rooms is so short a 1.80 cm tall guy has to sleep with his legs 15 cm outside of it... There is not enough room in the wardrobes, no shelves, and out of the 4 drawers two where full of the host's clothes. One of the wardrobes has only hanging areas, no shelves, no drawers at all. The other one is full of stuff, and has one missing door, so you have to put your stuff where possible and can't close the wardrobe.
- The bathroom: is so tiny the door doesn't event fully open, it hits the lavabo every time you enter. The shower had no door (the host said it had just been broken, but the other part had clear signs of painting at it showed it was a very old situation). After 10 seconds of showering, there was so much water in the shower that it poured out and all the bathroom was full of water too. The shower itself was broken (let alone you had to keep it your hand because no way of hanging it on the wall), and each time you had to reassemble it while showering because it was falling in pieces.
In general, the house is not that clean, and around the terrace - yet really very beautiful - is full of garbage and things. There is a detached small gate with sharp edges and rust, which is not really what you want if you have small children around.

The most disappointing thing after all was the behaviour of the host: we wrote him pointing out all these problems, saying that a small refund would have been correct, and he never answered. Even without the refund, but with a nice answer of apologies, we would have been ok. No matter what he can say or write now or in a review, his way of handling the whole thing has been poor and definitely not smart.
It is a real shame because with a little attention the house would be really enjoyable, but the current situation ruins your stay. Not good value for money at all, very disappointing check in, house and host.