Informed host the importance of air con, and that I cancelled another unit after booking but finding out they don’t come with. Host stated this unit has one air con in the living room that’s enough to cool bedroom. Turns out it’s not a split unit aircon but a portable unit connected via a round connector to a glass panel of the living room window, and it’s insufficient to cool room from where it is in the living room even after leaving it on after back from duomo visit. Luckily he responded that I can move it to the room. Queried how that can be done, since room window glass panel doesn’t have that round connector, and I didn’t want to open windows for fear of mosquitoes, which was prevalent in summer. But before he responded, I noticed mosquito netting in room window has been pulled aside and broken, and the windows can’t really be closed tight , so informed him via photo what’s seen, and seems it’s been done before. Sent also photo of the broken mosquito net drawstring I noticed. He was still ok up to here, but flipped when I showed him next photo of the broken toilet seat, which I had to, in order to indemnify myself. He stated that I paid for a cheap place and showed him bad broken position of toilet seat on purpose. ‘You don’t have to show me that way’ was his words. I didn’t even tell him when I sat on toilet seat, the cover was actually on my back and I had to push it up. Didn’t rebut for fear of being chased out without a place to rest on my last nite. Neither did I inform wife, so as not to spoil it for her. Really a case of self suffering. If not for wife, would have pursued matter and his attitude there and then.
I also chose this unit cos of proximity to duomo, when queried host and he stated it’s just a 10mins walk. When wife asked on distance of walk, I told her what I was told. Got another shock after I keyed in apple map when we wanted to start the walk to duomo that it turns out to be a 20mins 2 km walk to duomo. That meant another same walk back to unit. That’s a total of 40mins 4 km walk just to and fro. Plus the walk anyone will do around duomo
I rely a lot on accuracy of responses as I have to visualize how my diy tour to a place we are going to visit will turn out to be. So it’s definitely a sad ending to my otherwise perfectly planned and executed Europe tour through host’s inaccuracy of vital info and his chiding of what I paid vs condition of the unit