We honestly didn’t have a good start and end with Ricardo but will write an honest and unbiased review. This is pretty much our first and only problem we ever had with an air bnb host and non of the problems would have happened if he bothered to answer the phone (he was actually in his room on his laptop all along).
We arrived on time at the address and waited for 30 mins (in the heat with a luggage) and this is the instruction he gave us the night before:
Ok checkin at 15.15 via Benedetto XIV n.1 bell Casolari my mobile is +39 3409754017 see you tomorrow.
For a foreigner this “1 bell Casolari” could easily be part of the building's name.
How it should be:
Street: via Benedetto XIV
Big yellow house number: 1, next to a cafe
Push the bell button that says: Casolari
And I will let you in from my room.
Walk up to second floor and the room is on the right.
(the GPS location is not even accurate on air bnb)
His phone didn’t work at all but we managed to ring the bell button in the end. No apologies was given but blame it all on us.
On the day we left, we had to catch the train at 8:50 am and Ricardo was nice enough to book us a cab for 8:10 am the evening before. Turns out taxi didn’t arrive on time and we couldn’t risk waiting any longer so we left at 8:13 by walking (takes 22mins to walk to station). Ricardo called us at 8:19 to tell us the taxi is waiting but we left and he called us stupid for coming down and wait at 8:00 am and him not realizing the risk of missing the train or having to rush at the train station (and panicking to find our train platform). Our general experience with cabs in any country is that they always arrive early rather than late (even in italy like milan or lake como).
Other than that:
Location: very central and easy to get anywhere
Bathroom: private big, clean and nice but the ceiling lights were off so we only use the bathroom mirror lights.
Sound: there were kids making a lot of noise in the evening
Neighbor: An old lady didn’t let us into the building because she thought we were random intruders (even though we have a set of keys)
This room gets hot in the summer and the windows doesnt help much so we had to grab the fan from the living room. The room is clean.
No elevator and light on stairway
In the evening he brings his friend to watch sport and drinking beer if I travel alone I wouldn’t feel so safe.