The room was big, bright, reasonably clean, and had a lovely view of a cathedral (San Francisco). It was a shared accommodation and some of the common spaces were a little messy when I arrived (half eaten food in the refrigerator and other small things like that). Oddly, I never ran into any of the other guests staying there.
My biggest complaint with this Airbnb was the check-in process. The directions for how to get into the apartment were unclear. When I contacted Flavia about check-in, she sent me the address for a local restaurant to get the keys from one of the servers before heading to the actual apartment. So I had to go into the restaurant with all of my luggage during their busy dinner service and find someone to ask for the keys. After I got them, it took me about 40 minutes to find the right apartment (there were two buildings with the same number very close to each other and google maps initially sent me to the wrong one even though I typed in the right address listed for the Airbnb). Once I managed to find the right building and let myself in, I struggled to find the actual apartment. The first set of instructions Flavia sent me via Airbnb message said the apartment was on the first floor, but later she sent me directions through WhatsApp saying it was on the second floor. The doors were not numbered and she was unavailable to answer questions when I arrived, so I just had to try the keys in all the doors that fit her description until I was able to unlock one of them.
As a solo female traveler, I found the check-in process very stressful—especially since my train didn’t arrive in Bologna until the evening when it was dark outside. I also felt somewhat uncomfortable with it being a shared accommodation but not knowing whether or not anyone else was staying there besides me.
Aside from all of this, the room I stayed in was reasonably clean and had a great location, which was really convenient. If it weren’t for the check-in process and the fact that it was a shared accommodation, I would have felt a lot more comfortable staying here.