I am an Airbnb host (as is my friend who stayed with me here) and we are well aware of how important good reviews are. That being said, as travelers, above all, we feel the need to give an honest depiction of an AirBnB experience. We met Tiziana upon check-in. She gave us the keys and excellent restaurant recommendations. Unfortunately, there were a few things about the parlor floor and the Red Room that were not pleasant or welcoming. 1.) LIGHTS AND LAYOUT The Red Room is at the back of a poorly lit, apparently unused, cluttered, parlor floor. The room is also poorly lit with bare bulbs, nonworking sconces, and table lamps with dark shades. It looks and feels like a storage space: cluttered with odd pieces that make no sense and do not contribute to guests' comfort. There is a large mirror high up but it's hidden by a large framed artwork. 2.) SECURITY There is no outer lock on the door despite the fact that there are several other rooms for rent in the large house; I for one was not happy leaving my passport, computer and other valuables behind without the ability to lock the door upon leaving for the day. 3.) BATHROOM SITUATION
There is no proper bathroom but two separate, tiny, cold and drafty make-shift stalls that appear to have been converted from built-in bookcases. The toilet closet is without a towel rack or even just useable hooks; there is no place to put down anything other than a toothbrush above the tiny sink on a piece of bare, unfinished wood that's posing as a „shelf" and above the toilet bowl where we had to place our towels. The window sill was dirty. The sink had no hot or warm water, not even luke-warm. Sitting on the toilet, one must take care not to bang one's head on the tiny basin directly in front of your head. The equally tiny, sub-standard shower stall is at the other end of a massive built-in cabinet with glass doors that reveal a few stored items haphazardly placed. My traveling companion had been looking forward to a bath since Tiziana, in her check-in instructions, specifically mentions the availability of a tub (in which guests are encouraged to sing!) and even brought bath salts, yet completely refused to enter the mini shower stall and therefore had to forgo bathing entirely. We are 5’7” and there was no way we could have raised and scrubbed our limbs in that sub-standard space. 4.) There's a tea cart with supplies which is nice but no a water container, water source, or water heating appliance unless guests are expected to place mugs in the tiny sink in the toilet closet and then heat water in the microwave. 5.) To hang our winter jackets we had to remove a pile of hangers from the low, rickety make-shift unfinished wood rack at the foot of the bed. 6.) NOISE All of this might have been forgiven if not for the disturbing noises from in the room above that occurred late and for long periods during both nights. Not only were there people walking back and forth on bare wood floors in their shoes and dragging things about the room, there were other loud, odd sounds from 9:30 pm until 12:55 am that not only woke us on the first night, but kept us from falling asleep on the second night. Needless to say, we were exhausted on the second morning and we couldn’t get out of there fast enough. When we were leaving we spotted a body on a couch at the far front of the parlor floor by the front of the house! Possibly a stay in other rooms upstairs (that appear in the listings' pictures to be quite lovely) might provide an acceptable stay but not the Red Room, unfortunately.