Positive: The apartment is conveniently located right in the middle of San Nicola l’Arena, steps away from the shops - a supermarket, a greengrocer, a baker as well as the cafe who offers breakfast to the guests - and reasonably close to the harbor and a couple of nice seaside restaurants. Our bedroom was spacious, new and nicely furnished, and we found everything was perfectly clean. We are a couple with a small child and had plenty of space for ourselves, his bed and all our stuff. Despite being really close to the train tracks and a rather noisy Main Street, the apartment was very silent thanks to some nicely isolated windows. The air conditioning worked really well and was really silent. Although we hardly used the kitchen, it looked new and quite functional. Our breakfast, although limited to a hot beverage and a pastry, was always fresh and really good.. Negative: We arrived on a Saturday while the apartment manager - mr. Pietro - was sick, and were greeted by a kind lady who gave us the keys yet could only share basic instructions on everything else. Unfortunately we found out the water pump had been turned off for some reason, and since mr. Pietro couldn’t be back until Monday we had little to no water for two days. We also realized the water heater was off and had to turn it on ourselves in order to have hot water. The apartment’s WiFi connection wasn’t working. Mr. Pietro gave us an alternative option but then told us we couldn’t use it and sent somebody to fix the original line. The guy showed up mid-afternoon, interrupting our child’s afternoon nap, yet still couldn’t fix the problem, so we just ended up using 4G. While the room and kitchen were nicely and recently furnished, the same can’t be said for the apartment’s bathroom, who really needs a refresh. The entrance to the apartment was constantly blocked by the downstairs shop’s stuff (inflatable beach chairs, flip-flop shelves and the like), and we often found packs of newspapers on the stairs, blocking our way up and down. As the town of Trabia just recently started recycling, our hosts seemed rather confused on how we should handle the different types of trash. Luckily we had the paper and plastic bins right across the street, yet we had to get creative with the “undifferentiated” trash, as there was no clear way for disposing of it - we ended up bringing it to the town’s recycling center, after we found out the right day and opening times to do that. I guess this should have been the host’s responsibility, not ours. There was no broom, mop or bucket in the apartment, so we had no way of cleaning, and no cleaner came during the six days of our stay. By the end, the floor was rather dusty from all the sand we had brought from the beach, and so was the bed. Finally, free parking close to the apartment was not always easy to find..
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