Nanni is a congenial host, charming even (although he did try and ask my cousin and I out for coffee several times when we arrived) and the flat is in an amazing place, Ortigia, in a great location with an incredible view. However, I am afraid to say that staying in this flat really degraded the last and most beautiful leg - Ortigia is fabulous, wonderful, beautiful - of our wonderful Sicilian journey (we stayed in 4 other Airbnb flats, all great). I am very well travelled and do not book nor expect luxury accommodation: quite the opposite, especially in a wonderful place like this, simple basic accommodation is all you need. But this ad is dishonest and misleading, and the experience of staying there was very bad. From the beginning when we could not get hold of Nanni in the key couple of hours before our arrival, to get in (as noted in previous reviews) to the following list: the wifi didn't work at all, the water pressure was a single dribble of water ie you could not take a shower, to call that a "kitchen" is a joke, (it's a cupboard with a sink and a burner in it, literally) the promised washing machine is not in the flat and anyway does not work - our clothes were soaking wet and there was nowhere to dry them (and no soap to wash them in the first place), the second "bed" is a worn out old futon on slats under the stairs in the living room and I had to carry a heavy bag of sheets to the flat along with all our luggage (because we had waited in a square up the road for Nanni to appear, late) and make the second bed up myself. The "heating" is pathetic and only heats a small patch of air above the bed upstairs, and that wonderful looking terrace in the photo, which no doubt sells the place, is on the roof-up a rickety and dangerous-feeling pull down ladder and we never went up there (there is a balcony in the living room with the same wonderful view).
I contacted Nanni before leaving this review to try and resolve this some other way but he did not respond and I have now involved Airbnb. I have just seen that he has left me a review - I will look forward to reading that now, having seen his response to some previous complaints which I discounted before we stayed here but which I now see were all too legitimate.