I have never written a review like this in all my travels. I want to be very fair in what I share because there were very good things and some that weren’t.
I chose this apartment because of the pictures, reviews, location, and the fact it had two bathrooms for our family of four.
Its a great location, central and right by Mercado Centrale. There is noise of carts being set up in early morning and street noise at night. I expected that once I learned the location and I put some rain sounds on. No problem.
The apartment only had a few stairs to get to which is great and has two beds and two baths. It has awesome windows that you can open wide. It also has a washer and good air conditioning. So many good things about it.
I found all of my initial conversations with Nanni to be warm and I chose this location because of that too.
I’ll jump to the chase: The apartment didn’t look like it’s best photos and had some aspects that weren’t clean. The cover on the bed I slept in was crunchy qnd had yellow crunchy stains all over it. It was pretty awful. It made me wonder if the sheets I was on were clean.
Any traveler knows that when you see something that dirty, you wonder what else wasn’t cleaned well.
The sofa bed has a cover, when you pull it off to open the sofa bed, it’s really stained and dirty.
There were no sheets for the sofa bed. My teen boys are 6 feet each and we chose this place in part because we had that option of an extra bed.
The bathrooms were clean. The kitchen had no soap for the dishes. There was dead food in the fridge from the previous people, I guess.
My fault was that I didn’t say something right away. I saw the dirty blanket the first night but was so exhausted after travels, I didn’t address it. I didn’t realize how dirty the blanket was until the third morning when the covers had flipped over and I saw how gross it was. I reached out to Nanni about not having sheets for the sofa bed and the dirty blanket. He didn’t offer to bring anything clean over for our last night or to bring over sheets.
So maybe this was a rare moment for the host and this apartment. We were kind and respectful in our communications but I didn’t feel the issues were taken care of.
Maybe it will be better for the next guests. But this was our experience and the only reason I share this is because I would want to know too.