The apartment it's self is beautiful and the location is perfect for exploring Catania.
However the host himself left me feeling very uncomfortable.
So to start with he told me more then once that it would be fine for me to check in at 1pm when I arrived (which took some time as he was absolutely no help when I told him I was lost) he told me to come back later as the apartment was not ready.
Now onto the disaster of my second day... in the afternoon I came back to flooded kitchen due to an issue with the aircon.. I text the host and he came and fixed it straight away, which is good !! And he told me it was now fine !!
So anyway, when I came in for the evening I locked the door behind me and shut all the windows (I'm a solo female traveler feeling safe is obviously important too me) I turned on the aircon to cool down the apartment and got into bed to read a book... around an hour or so later I started to hear noises coming from the kitchen and the window open... I was instantly terrified.. when I looked out the door I could see a hand reaching in through my window.. (looking back I should of probably locked my self in my room as it could of been a burglar but adrenaline kicked in and I jumped out of bed and slammed the window shut... seconds later someone began to bang very hard on my window startling me further then a voice called out.. i recognised this to be hosts voice so I opened the window... he tried to explain that he could a hear a problem with the air con and was trying to turn it on and off ... however to me this does not make sense and seems a pretty stupid inconsiderate way of going about it. If there had been a problem he should of text me, no tried to sneak in. I therefore spent the rest of night feeling unsafe and very uncomfortable in this apartment. I paid over 100 euros for a PRIVATE apartment... to be left feeling unsafe and scared.