We stayed at Andrea's place for 3 nights. The place is lovely, as in the pictures. An old apartment (with all its quirks) but charming, with loads or character, light and space. Andrea was very nice at check in and offered guidance on the neighborhood and city.
We had, however, two issues with our experience. The first one was that the internet connection was horrible. Right from the start we noticed that we could only connect in the kitchen area because there was no actual router or repeater in the apartment. Andrea owns more than one apartment in the building and I guess he cuts costs by making them share a connection. Well, that is not working! We had several different devices, including a new and powerful laptop I needed to do some work with, and I just could not complete it because of the faulty connection. He went to the apartment twice to check the connection and said he placed complaints to the company, but the main problem was being greedy and not having a router (or at least a signal amplifier, which are really cheap!) in each apartment.
Our second issue had to do with the 25 euro fee to get linens for the second bed, as stated in the house rules. For once, that fee is unreasonable... you can't charge that just for washing an extra set of sheets, when you could even buy a new set for that! And in our case it was made even worse, since he was claiming me to pay for it when I wasn't even able to connect to do it!!! I had to go connect somewhere else to be able to complete the payment. That was crazy!!! He could have forgone that fee since he was not providing a proper service, in my opinion.
So, our balance was: lovely place, BAD host.