The location of the Apartment was harder to find than expected our GPS did not take us that close to the location. When we realized we were “lost” we found a place to park and messaged him again. He did not reply for ~30-45 mins.
He said to meet at a cafe. I go meet him at the cafe and realize he does not know English like the listing said. We try to communicate through google translate. I follow him to the apartment and already start to get a weird feeling being a female alone on these streets.
I walk in and instantly it feels warm and smells a bit like mold. We walk up the stairs and when we get to the loft upstairs the lights do not turn on he hits a breaker and they come on.. tour the place he explains how the cook top won’t work an use the electric one and shows me the bathroom towels and snacks etc in the “kitchen”.
We leave and I am more concerned about parking. I walk back to the parking lot and finally find our way to the cafe (through the tiny streets not too fun with a car when you’re not used to the streets) and park outside the barber (across from the loft). We go upstairs and the power does not go on. I message him and awhile later he said he will be there soon to fix. He could not figure it out so someone comes and rewired the AC or something. The lights come on. But no AC. No WiFi. I ask what about the AC and he says “ no, tomorrow” and then I asked about WiFi and he seemed aggravated and said “when it’s green your are good”
We arrived in Naples around ~1700. It is now past ~1900. We just drove a little over 5 hours hoping we could check in and relax.. I have a bunch of work I needed to do online and this definitely was a setback for someone so used to the Western world.
During all this I kept having doubts on canceling and telling him I think we should but he kept acting aggravated and kind of bullying us saying that “since someone’s here fixing it I agreed or something ” I was not too sure what he was going on about.
We decide to stick out the night went out for a walk to find some dinner. When we got back it was still sooo hot we could not sleep. It also seemed to be the busiest street in Napoli! It did not wind down until around 230am. (If you are a light sleeper I would not recommend).
The parking space was ok but around 1am or so I looked outside and a group of men were hovering over it smoking and chatting.
If you are someone who does not need A/C, WiFi, Soap or Convenient Parking then this place should work for you. I do hope he fixes these issues that others have stated (guess I did not pay attention when I was researching) then this would be a really cute little place.
Best of luck in Napoli!.