First off I want to say that Lella’s apartment is beautiful. The homemade chocolate dessert log that she made was a warm welcoming. Lella was very helpful in showing us a map of Catania complete with restaurants, churches and bus stops on our arrival.
This apartment is located close to the heart of Catania which makes walking everywhere nice, but the downside of this is the noise. Lellla was kind enough to leave us ear plugs to help sleep. But I do have to say, the noise was not that of the normal hustle and bustle of tourists, restaurants and late night drinking. This was loud, club music complete with young people on motorcycles, yelling and throwing beer bottles in the streets. This did not happen every night but the nights it did went on long into the night, past 3AM. I would just like to know this if I was traveling with children. The windows and ear plugs did a good job but small children would not be able to sleep with ear plugs in order to have quiet.
My only other two complaints where that the bath towels provided for us were large enough for a child but not an adult, and only one each. She did provide bath robes with was a very nice touch but I would have rather had towels that worked for a shower and the option to have a beach towel. Beach towels were not provided and we weren’t able to access any from Lella during our stay because we didn’t give prior notice that we wanted them before our stay.
The smart TV wasn’t working as well, so we had to watch Italian TV. Which that isn’t the complaint, more that some games would have been a nice option or for our host to come at some point and try and rectify the T.V. problem.
Overall, the house is beautiful and had MOST of the things we needed. I wish it was in a different location was or just advertised more accurately of the type neighborhood it is in. I would have been very upset had I shown up with small children.