About the host and the apartment: Luca is a good host, he replied us quickly, everything essential was provided and the apartment was really clean. There was no problem about that. The location... If you just prioritize to be near the city center and the old part of the city, I guess this is a good location. However, if you would like a normal, clean street, with normal neighbours around... Well I doubt you could get it here. We were there for just one night, and from 23:00 to late in the early hours, we could hear either loud music, or loud shoutings outside, and one neighbour was additionally irritating by knocking the door downstairs for a solid 30 minutes. If you can live with that, then I admire you. And yeah, the street outside is very narrow and dirty.
About the city: This part doesn't affect my review about the host, it is meant to be a good advice and heads up to all of you reading this: Well, where to begin, with the very first impressions of the city - taxi ride from the airport to the apartment. The people in Sicily generally drive crazy, but our young driver was extra crazy. Also, he shouted a lot, had a rude attitude and after a short drive, he took €35 just like that. I guess that was also my mistake for getting in the taxi and not negotiating the price first. He kindy greeted us with some italian swear words and went. Great beginning of the day. The streets in the whole city are INCREDIBLY dirty and smell almost everywhere like beer, shitty diapers or sweat. The trash is all around the streets, roads, houses... If anyone had told me that before I went there, I woldn't have believed it. But now I know from my own experience. Take good care of your stuff, I had a feeling that every fourth person was just waiting a right moment to steal something. Most of the people are incredibly rude, and few people that were nice to us when we asked them simple questions, were not Italians. For example the whole family, from Bangladesh, owns a store in Catania, were happy to answer me any question and were really friendly when they heard I was a tourist... Not to go with this any longer: I was in Catania for one full day, and I'm glad. I didn't like it at all, I had 2-3 positive experiences there, minor things... I've never seen a dirtier city in my life until now, and it's really sad, because this place could offer so much, but it seems that they just don't want to.