We would not recommend staying at Mare B&B. We stayed in both buildings, one before a bicycle trip through Puglia and the other unit on our last night in Puglia. Although the AirBnB listing states the units are air conditioned, the first unit we stayed in, three bed rooms and two baths, had no air conditioning. When asked about the lack of air conditioning Giovanna, the host, said that the listing is incorrect, and she would bring three fans. Only one fan arrived and as a result we spent three nights in 30C / 90F degree heat with the windows open to mosquitos and all night noisy crowds in the streets. After our first day we tried to run the dish washer and found it didn’t work. We contacted Giovanna who said she would have it fixed the next day. The dishwasher still wasn’t working when we checked out. Although the listing suggests three bedrooms, the unit has two bedrooms and a curtained off sitting room with a pull-out couch. This room has no windows and without AC or fan, is really not useable as a bedroom. A terrible experience in the two-bathroom unit.
On our last night we stayed in the second unit with one bathroom, also advertised with air conditioning. Giovanna met us on another 30C / 90F day. Upon entering the hot, stuffy unit we turned on the air conditioning which caused all power in the unit to shut off. Giovanna reset the power, we tried again, same result, no power, no lights and no air conditioning. We were returning from our last day of biking and wanted a shower. When we tried to turn on the water in the shower the faucet fell off the wall, no water…..Giovanna called a plumber and electrician. The plumber arrived and fixed the shower. The electrician never arrived, and we spent a sweltering night with the windows open to the all night noisy street, no power, no lights and mosquitoes eating us.
Giovanna did not respond to our request for a refund.
We loved Bari and Puglia, had a wonderful time everywhere we stayed, except for the start and end of our trip at Giovanna’s “Mare” AirBnB units.