The villa is certainly quiet but would struggle to describe it as elegant. I guess the easiest way to list our experience is as follows:
1. The villa had not been cleaned properly prior to occupancy
2. Although described as a place suitable for 4 people. Realistically it’s for 2 people. It’s has a sofa bed for two more people but a curtain in the middle so absolutely no option for any intimacy.
3. It’s infested with spiders and mosquitoes. So many so that on average the 3 of us had 40-60 bites each on us after the first few days. All windows were always closed.
4. 3 of the lightbulbs were not working and we asked 3 times over 4 days before it was fixed
5. The electricity failed in the property. And although we were only using a hair dryer and 5 usb points to charge phones/watches we were told we were exceeding the power capacity of 3kw - what ever that means. We used the washing machine once and the microwave twice. Apparently this overloaded the system.
6. The host complained that he had to pay €40 to call an electrician.
7. The pool is shared (on the Airbnb description this is in Italian so was missed by us) however it’s only open from 930am to 7pm.
8. We were hesitant to ask the host for anything out of fear as he demonstrated his anger towards us.
9. In the end we felt so uncomfortable at the property that we spent 2 days at another hotel to avoid the insects and ended up paying twice.
10. WiFi cuts out every 5 minutes and you have to keep logging back in by filling out a form. And it’s very weak.