The apartment is nice, clean and well located. The deck has a lovely view but not much really up there- some very small iron folding chairs and a broken umbrella. The apartment didn’t have basics like paper towels, olive oil, salt. That might be ok if you’re staying for weeks and want to stock everything but for a few days it would be nice to have basics. The check out procedure was more annoying that it sounds in reviews. Having to make an appointment to check out and having someone go through the apartment to see if you broke something is inconvenient and odd. It all feels a little corporate and not very air bnb. We tried to change our checkout to a day earlier ((because our flight was changed to a very early flight) and the Ap said the host wasn’t available for checkout on that day. So we couldn’t change the reservation in the Ap. This was not ideal.
There is a complicated garbage schedule in Siracusa that the hosting company tried to explain but it would be helpful to have sign that says the day the various types of garbage should be set out (rather than a sign that says the day they’re picked up). The big and unclear sign saying failure to sort your garbage will incur a 50€ fine was also not welcoming. Finally there are definitely some electrical quirks. We had the breaker switch trip several times (and never used the dishwasher which is what triggered it for other reviewers). We had to keep some air conditioners off to prevent this which wasn’t ideal in July heat. (Though ACs that were on did work well). For us, these quirks and the value for money meant this wasn’t quite worth it despite being a nice place in a good location.