The house looks beautiful in the pictures but, like a bad Tinder date, doesn't quite live up to its promise in real life. The garden is teeming with mosquitos, which means that you can't open those windows unless you want to be eaten alive. The handful of mosquito repellent wall plug-ins inside do nothing to stop them, so instead it appears that most guests resort to killing them on the walls.
Which brings me to the cleanliness... Mosquito guts are smeared on the walls throughout the house, there's mildew on the shower curtain, and holes in the linens. To be fair, Stefano offered to have the sheets replaced but then ignored everything else, and at that point it wasn't worth the hassle.
As far as hospitality goes, it would have been nice to have known things like the wifi password, how to open the windows, and how to use those mosquito machines, etc without having to ask. Or ideally, have those things done before our arrival. Overall the interactions with Stefano felt very transactional and not personal at all, which may have been due renting from a company rather than an individual host.
It’s a lovely little home, with a ton of potential, but it needs a little more care.