Hello all,
I might begin by noting that I recently had a series of extraordinary stays in Italy, with a range of hosts ranging from small to "we have 1,100 properties."
All good luck must come to an end-- was anyone day trading last week-- thus, I made it to Napoli ...
That story aside, my current host "somewhere in Sicily" had a few problems. Such as the apartment next door, having a water pipe leak. Nothing like stepping out of bed into a pool of cold, brackish, smelly water!
That problem aside, the one I'm writing about is that she listed a pass-through / shotgun situation as a 2BR. (Hey, in Napoli, 2 room with a sofa in the front living/kitchen room is evidently a 2BR; and enough space for 4 adults and 8 kids, from what I saw walking through some of the tighter passageways.
Excuse me; Mt. Etna is just showing up draped in clouds here on my train ride.
In any case, we pumped and bailed and scooped and mopped with every towel in the apartment, and got much of the water out-- until a bit more came the next night.
But back to the main topic: her place is somewhat spacious, but the second bedroom is a former kid's room reachable only through the main bedroom.
The host and her helper only speak Italian, and so I'm wondering what to advise her about the shotgun. (She only has 12 reviews, 2 of them a bit not great; it's a smaller stop). "Shotgun" works in US-English, but not the whole English speaking world; and while her listing title is in English (text in Italian), I'm not sure it will communicate well to all.
As well: is it OK to list this as a 2BR at all?
Regardless, I think there needs to be some clarification, perhaps only a clear line "second bedroom is reachable only through the main bedroom" or such.
How do others see this one? No jokes about snorkeling, please.