Right from the moment we booked this place, we knew we had no fears! And how right we proved to be! Paolo is a perfect host - very responsive, attentive, helpful and kind. He was always available even late at night if we needed something. The apartment was neat. The airconditioning worked great! Extremely peaceful neighbourhood.
Very, very minor issues such as the bathroom door did not lock. Apart from that the stay was perfect in every way.
The apartment is very nicely situated. There is a mini supermarket just a few steps away. Almost all places are withing walking distance. If you do not mind walking upto 2 km, you need not take a taxi at all. Even the SM Novella station is within walking distance.
The fact that the apartment was on the 2nd floor and there being no lift was no issue at all. Paolo was there to take up our luggage at check in and bring it down during check out. He arranged a taxi and even offered to come to the station to help us with the luggage!
He's not very fluent in spoken English, but is perfect in written English communication and very prompt in replying to any message.
The internet worked very well. Though the host warned us about mosquitoes, as we had kept the windows closed throughout, we faced no problem of mosquitoes.
He had kept cookies, even a small cake - and there was enough coffee, tea, salt, oil, etc to do some minor cooking.
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