We two women stayed in Siracusa for 3 nights. We were not happy with this apartment. It's spacious, well located (a short stroll from Piazza Archimedes with a lovely grocery across the road) but furnished for appearance rather than function. On arrival we waited out the front of a very dark entrance hallway to the block. The lighting in this hallway was never fixed despite our requests and after 7pm we required a torch to find and unlock the internal gate. The apartment is at the top of a flight of stairs. One metre across the corridor from the front door was a large pile of builder's sand which the local cats use as a latrine. Once inside, the apartment was clean enough with 2 large bedrooms (with good aircon) sitting/dining/kitchen and 3 balconies. The bathroom/laundry is large but completely internal and suffered from an unpleasant smell coming from the toilet plumbing. The shower is slippery when wet and has no shelves or hooks for any soaps etc. Our soap sat on the tiled floor. The door handle came off in my hand the first time I tried to lock the door. The wifi was reliable but slow.

Perhaps the biggest issue was the electricity and the owner's lack of responsiveness. On two consecutive mornings, while making breakfast, we turned on the oven to heat bread and simultaneously used a second appliance (once it was a hair dryer and the second time the electric kettle) and the electricity blew. We checked the circuit board inside the apartment, but none of the switches had tripped so we called the owner. He did not respond for a couple of hours the first time. The second morning we even checked the external circuit boards ourselves. The owner responded after an hour and talked us through how to restore power. Surely there could have been some warning about using the oven!

Comfortable enough but not well appointed.