The house was sparkling clean and smelled great upon arrival. The host, Paolo, responded promptly to all communications both before and during my stay. It is a very cute and comfortable space with lots of nice touches of art. The kitchen was well-equipped.

The price was very good but unfortunately the electricity went out early on my second night and did not come back on. It is a quiet street/neighborhood and it was a Sunday so I had to wait for Monday morning to find an open cafe to use WiFi to contact Paolo. He responded quickly and his father soon came to fix it. We worked for many hours (really his father worked - I just held the torch. ;-)). The outlets sparked and there was smoke. After a long time his father thought it would be ok if I just didn't use the oven or the one outlet that stayed broken. (Neither of which I had used at any point in my stay.) Disturbingly, about 15 minutes after he left, the broken outlet began to spark and smoke again, the electricity went back out, and then quickly the fuse box itself was on fire and smoking significantly. I got it turned off. Without electricity, I went back to a cafe to find WiFi to contact Paolo again. He and his father came over then and ultimately decided to ask an electrician to come look at it. By then the day was mostly over and I didn't feel particularly safe committing to sleeping there in a second floor bedroom with no way out except for going down a potentially very dark spiral staircase passing by the dysfunctional fuse box and no fire extinguisher (the house layout and amenities are correctly and clearly communicated in the posting and I had felt ok with it when booking). Paolo said this had never happened before and that there was a short external to the building (but not impacting the electricity on the rest of the block). Anyhow, these things can happen anywhere, but/and are scary when they do. And unfortunately with the time taken communicating and trying to fix it and the cancellation policy, it meant I paid for four nights, stayed for two, and slept well for one (the first night, when the electricity worked). It really is a nice home, this visit just didn't work out well. I hope it all got totally fixed and everyone is safe and has good visits going forward.