Problems :
-No noise isolation at all, you can hear everything from outside and above
-Close to the airport, you can feel the planes and the windows are SHAKING
-Almost no privacy from the street
-Low/no sun light
-The location is not really good
-Contact with the host wasn't a really good experience (threatened to face the police)
-the apartment wasn't ready when we arrived
Positive point:
-the apartment was new and clean
First of all, the host Diletta, was really nice with us and was responding quickly ! Everything was going great until we arrive at the apartment. She told us to not come before 14h, which was totally fine, so i came at 14h30. Since we needed to left the apartment at 12h, we thought that the visitor before us should also leave the apartment at 12h, which gives the cleaning women 2 hours to prepare the apartment and clean everything. Few minutes after arriving, the cleaning women arrived, open the door, and tell me that the apartment is not ready and she needs 20 minutes to clean everything... I needed to catch my girlfriend at the airport and because of this I couldn't be at the airport in time... But nevermind, sometimes this kind of problem can happen.
The main problem of the apartment is the noise isolation. There is basically no noise isolation from the exterior. You can hear everything from the street, the ceiling, planes and neighbors. There were even one time we heard a notification ring from someone in the street but it felt like it was in the room !
The planes fly quite low because we are next close to the airport, and the windows of the bedroom are... SHAKING ?!
The windows of the bedroom were really thin and old making it so useless to noise isolation, so much that we thought at first that it was open !
Talking about windows, the apartment looks more like a store than a real apartment. It's actually a "laboratory of architecture". There are two big windows that are giving vew right on the street, so if you don't close the curtains, everyone can see you like you were living in a glass box. Of course closing the curtains means no sunlight in the apartment...
The "apartment" it self is located quite far from the city center, like 20 minutes in bus/bike. It's true that the bus stop is few meters from the apartment but if you want to go out late at night (which is when bologna is at it's best in my opinion) you can't go out later than 1 am because there won't be any us beyond this hour...
Let's talk about the host now. First of all, everything was online, by chat, and we never saw the actual host in real life. Diletta was really kind and responsive at the beginning but then she asked us to give our identity information. A picture of our official identity card was asked and we didn't wanted to give it because of obvious security purposes knowing that it's online.
She told us that it was needed to register travelers on... the police website ? Then we asked if we could do that ourselves but she told us that she can't give us the website adress and that if we had problems we will deal that with the police...
After no new messages...
Even if it was true that the host needs this kind of information to register travelers to the government (which we didn't know, and it was never asked for us before, we have been in Bologna 3 times before with air bnb) and not the police, she didn't tell us the truth and were threatened to face the police directly...
Then when we were about to leave the apartment she told us to leave the apartment at 12h and not after otherwise she would call the police. We found it a bit daring to tell us to leave at 12h and not few minutes after, knowing that the apartment wasn't ready for us at 15h :/. But we left the apartment clean at 11h58 anyway :)
Even if it wasn't a great experience at all, we can't deny that everything in the apartment was new (expect for the bedroom window) and really clean !
Overall, it wasn't a really good experience, the main problem of the apartment is the noise isolation from the street... And everything else actually. Even if you aren't sensible to it, you'll have a hard time to sleep. None of the other comments mention this obvious point so i trully think that all the others comments are fake :).