Apartment in Catania:

We chose this apartment because it was described as with "car park on the premises" - but there is NO private car park. The same goes for the washing machine. Contrary to what is said in the description - there is NO washing machine.
Maybe some misunderstanding.

What was much worse was the NOISE problem. There is traffic noise from 7 a.m. until far beyond midnight. It was unbelieveably loud there. You felt like being next to the high way. The reason was the "via plebiscito", which is close to the apartment. Most of the day there is bumper-to-bumper traffic. The windows don´t protect you from this horrible traffic noise. I got myself wax from the next pharmacy to protect my ears during the night and to get some sleep.
This traffic noise is definitely not typical of Catania.

The apartment itself is much more scruffy than you might expect from the pictures. The towels, for example, were clean but very worn-out. One of them was even full of holes. (We paid about 50 Euros per day.)

There is no airconditioning and you can´t open a window for long. With an open window after half an hour I got a headache from all that traffic noise. My girlfriend felt the same.

The neighbourhood has loads of charm and lots of poverty. It´s up to you what you want to see. The host said it was safe there.

Catania itself is worth visiting.

Please note:
This host has one or two other apartments in the vicinity of Taormina.
We only stayed in the apartment in the "centro storico" of Catania.