Riccardo was very nice and on the first day I wanted to give him 5 stars after he arranged for a taxi to pick us up from the airport.
However, his responsiveness diminished and the comfort of the apartment was not great.
Pros:
- The location is good, the 2nd floor apartment is 3 flights but there’s an elevator after one flight. (Not recommended for elderly or mobility issues)
- there is a gelato store across the street.
- there is a washing machine (use the dry rack inside and not outside. It’s too humid to dry clothes even after 12 hours).
- he leaves items that other guests left. Ice cubes and ice cream in the freezer. We purchased coffee pods we left, and had one coffee pod when we arrived.
- there was a good supply of toilet paper in the bathroom
- there is an air conditioning unit in each room.
- clean towels provided. One bath towel, one face cloth.
Cons:
The bedroom doesn’t have great lighting. There are wall sconces that aren’t that bright in the day, and at night the downward bulbs DON’T turn off!
I messaged Riccardo asking him how to turn off the night light aspect, he didn’t reply. You can solve this by covering each bulb with a dark sock. (The bulbs don’t get hot).
- Riccardo didn’t reply to my query about the light.
- The bed in the master bedroom is just ok. After 3 nights I was done.
- The hide-a-bed in the living room, well, I laid on it to tuck in my kids. All springs! Their comment was “it’s uncomfortable but sleep-able”. And “I only had a spring dig into one part of my back”.
- The one person couch that my other child slept on, he said was comfortable, he could feel a couple of springs.
(Or saving grace was that we were exhausted after each day of touring)
- the shower doors don’t close all the way so there is a huge puddle after each shower. We used our towels to sop it up and then washed them.
- the coffee machine made 1/2 cup of coffee and stopped working. Riccardo said he’d try to drop by (didn’t) with some cleaning liquid. The next day my husband was able to clean out the machine. It was clogged. (Uses pods, not k-cup).
- there is no toaster. We managed to make ‘toast’ over one of the burners. Flipped the bread with a fork. (Afterwards I remembered that you can make toast in the oven, but in my early 50’s I’m not old enough to have learned how to do that! Lol)
Overall:
It was a reasonably good experience. All of the issues were minor inconveniences since it was such a short time.
Riccardo was very responsive the first day when he arranged for a ride for us. He seems very nice. I found out later he was out of town, so that’s why he was unresponsive to messages we sent (re coffee maker, and more importantly the bedroom lights that stay on all night)
He was one of the cheaper AirBNB’s available, so because of that, I can recommend this place.