It was a nice experience. We were looking for a quiet small house with a big garden and fences around it.
Pluses:
The location of the house is great! Super quiet and the neighbors are far so they won’t bother you. Many attractions and beautiful places in Tuscany are within one hour car drive. You can visit a winery or go to a beach, go to Siena or Florence or visit a park with waterfalls, it’s up to you.
Big garden with fences around is definitely a huge plus! A little tip: wake up in the early morning and you’ll see deers walking behind the fences, beautiful.
Pizza oven in the garden is an amazing experience of making your own Italian pizza.
The house is small, but it’s perfect for two people and it have everything you need including conditioning.
Hosts are super nice and helpful when you have some emergencies!
Minuses:
Unfortunately, the house is not as clean as you expect it to be when you’re in a vacation. We knew it is not a 5 star hotel and it didn’t cost us a fortune, but it doesn’t mean you should skip the cleaning part. The shower curtain and a shower shelf in the bathroom were dirty with someone else’s hair and many dead mosquitoes. On the floor we found so many finger nails which didn’t belong to us. In the shower there was a silicon rug on the floor. This is absolutely not hygienic and I cannot imagine how many times the owner actually cleaned and disinfected it. In the kitchen we had to wash the dishes twice to remove the fat and flakes, the fridge was also not clean inside.
The couch/bed is definitely not made for sleeping longer that two days on it. It is very squeaky, you cannot turn without making a noice, and it becomes one huge hole in the middle when you lay on it.
The main door. You cannot leave the house without the key, not even to take a sunbath or have a dinner outside. The door can’t be open from the outside, there is no handle. The only way to open it once you’ve closed it, is with the key. And in case you’ll forget the key in the door and the other door cannot be open as well, you’ll pay a fee for opening it. In our case we paid quite a fee for a job which honestly we could’ve done by ourselves. A little advice to the host: would be nice if you could place a spare key somewhere in the garden or to make a code key for such cases, so the guests wouldn’t have to bother you and focus on vacation and not thinking about forgetting the key.
