This air bnb is great if you are looking for a quick stay in between travel throughout Italy.. however that was not the case for us so I cannot give a full 5 stars. If you are looking for a quick place to sleep and plan on only eating out I 100% recommend! If you are planning a longer stay, this review is for you:
We stayed here for 5 nights and it did not give us the « home away from home » vibe that we know and love when renting air bnbs. We had just spent a week in the amalfi before arriving where we stayed at a hotel so we ate out every meal.. all this to stay we were excited for the air bnb to finally be able to enjoy a home cooked meal for change, but weren’t exactly able to. For starters, the kitchen is simply not well equipped at all if you are planning on cooking a meal. the only things to cook/season with are things that other guests have left behind. for example, there was a full box of rock salt that i can only assume was accidentally bought and left behind by another guest- no way to crush the salt, and no other fine salt to use. that, olive oil, and some uncrushed chillies were essentially the only things there you can use to season which you basically can’t use because there’s no proper utensils available to even use it.. we were not about to go to the grocery store to stock a whole kitchen on seasoning so we ended up just eating out. there were also no wine glasses for us to even have some of the wine we purchased.. only an opener, shot glasses, or regular water glasses, which was also pretty disappointing. i waited until arriving at my next air bnb to write this, to see if it was just the norm in italy, but this air bnbs kitchen is fully stocked with seasoning, and wine glasses, so i decided to include it.
secondly, there was not even a dish sponge for us to use to wash the dishes that we did use. we literally had to go out to buy our own… we did leave it behind for the next guests though, so if you are the ones there after us you’re welcome (lol).
finally, if you are planning on using the washing machine for your clothes, which we had to considering we had already travelled 1 week before arriving and were staying here 5 nights, you will again, have to buy your own soap. there was fabric softener though. this is probably not important to those staying a night or two but for us it was a bit annoying.
with that being said, I still rate this an overall 4/5, and would probably have given 5/5 if it was for a shorter stay.
the host was great with communication. on the first day i tried using the toaster and it blew a fuse causing all the power to turn off in the apartment. i messaged Diana about this and she wrote back very promptly on how to fix it. Yelena, the other host, was also on time to greet us at check-in and was lovely. she suggested places for us to go and see on the map they provided.