We had a great time staying at Manuela's place! Right when we walked in we felt an exciting sense of - we are home! But even before that Manuela was so helpful through communication and check in. She met us in the piazza so that we would not have to leave the duomo area in order to check in which was super nice and helpful. Also she gave us a ton of great recommendations.
Overall our stay was absolutely wonderful, we totally recommend this place for anyone visiting Catania. It is good to note that you are not completely in the city center, and need to walk 15 -20 minutes to get many places over there (which we knew beforehand and were excited to experience a new area) and also we struggled with electric stoves. Manuela was super helpful but in general this was confusing for us so if you plan to cook at all check in about that!
Either way - AWESOME person and place! Go for it!