The apartment was okay. The contact with the host was fine, quick responses as well. And the self check-in was easy. The terrace (which is not seen on the pictures) was the best surprise we could have. We spend our nights there and with the little fairy lights it looked so good. The place is a little bit over a 20 minute walk to the center of the city down the hill. We never took the bus although it is possible to take one (the busstop is pretty close).
The jacuzzi added so much to the room, it was clean and all the functions on it worked really well!
The downside for us was that we were staying there for 5 days, which is just a little too much. You’re gonna start noticing things that are lacking in the appartement. One of them is the shower, it fairly small for the big bathroom, and it smells like sewers. The shower is either too cold or way too hot and there is no in between. For the most part we took cold showers, because you would burn your skin with the hot one. It wasn’t that bad to take cold showers because the temperature inside of the apartment was really high.
There is an airco inside of the bedroom but you only have electricity when you’re inside the house (you have to turn it on with the housekey). It was always way too hot when we got back from a day in the city and it took a while to have it on a normal temperature again (the room also happened to be under a roof, so it gets hot in there easily).
And the last thing is the kitchen stuff. There is just enough (or too less) stuff in there. 2 glasses, 1 champagne glass (which we drank our wine in), 2 small pans (but only 1 heat-coaster), the extractor hood was also broken, so the whole apartment smelled like spaghetti.
Besides all of that, Catania is a beautiful city and if you’re just staying for 2 nights I would definitely recommend it!