This house was our second place in Sicily. We were there for the first time and Mondello is really a nice little sea town with beautiful houses, narrow streets and good vibes.
This house was exactly like in the photos, actually maybe even better, I think the photos don't show the coziness there is. The communication with the host went great all the time, we had a smooth check-in and check-out.
The courtyard, the upstair terrace, everything was to our liking and perfect after a day at the beach.
I gave this house 5 stars for everything because it was really clean, good value, good location and the hosts were really nice.
Aside from that, I'm gonna let an extra information here for future residents that maybe we didn't pay attention to or coming from out of Italy, maybe we don't know that this is the custom, but in Catania we had no such situation.
We had a welcoming packet with one roll of toilet paper per bathroom, one roll of paper tissues, a bottle of water in the fridge and a few, just a few coffee capsules for the coffee machine, also what we needed to wash the dishes.
Apart from that, nothing that could be consumable: there wasn't even salt and pepper to make a breakfast, there wasn't anything usable in the kitchen like oil or other condiments or thin foil to wrap the sandwiches (in the other place we had all that there, so maybe this is why we noticed the big difference). There were no products avaible to use the washing machine, we should have called them to come and get us some. Also, there was a list of things like toilet paper, water, coffee that we had to pay for if we wanted more and didn't want to go to the store, but of course we went to the store and got everything we needed, especially hand soap, shower gel, shampoo and everything that the house didn't have.
The extra cost for these basic products we kind of really didn't find comforting and we didn't appreciate it. Aside from that, it may be my mistake that I didn't read absolutely everything on the airbnb page (I thought I did), but there is a deposit required at the arrival that we got back when we left. The money was really not an issue, we payed , my only problem was that I didn't know when I made the reservation and I was announced when the whole house was fully payed and we were maybe 2 weeks away from our reservation. Again, it was not a problem that there was a deposit requirement, I just felt that I didn't have that information from the beginning and that was what I didn't like.
As we didn't do any damage, we got our deposit without a problem, but I left the information here for anyone not reading the absolutely whole thing on the page and that maybe wants to know before booking.
We had a great stay apart from the lack of products and really enjoyed the town and the house.