Ai Cartari

Struttura meravigliosa, proprietaria molto disponibile, ottima e abbondante colazione

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Such a charming place to stay in historic Palermo! Rosi is a wonderful host with an excellent Italian breakfast, tips on the local sights, good conversation, and excellent Sicilian coffee in the morning. The room is just lovely, spacious, full of antique furnishings. Stone floors, comfortable place to sit and relax. The location is superb just next to the iconic Antica Focacceria San Francesco. About 400 feet from Casa del Brodo restaurante (excellent food, reservations a good idea).

We had separate entry with our own set of keys. Room was very specious (in fact it was two adjoining rooms as we had triple room booked). It was cleaned up everyday. Rosalia is an amassing host. She baked her own cakes every morning for our breakfast. Her coffee was the best I ever tasted! She also helped us with everything we needed help with. The building itself is very interesting being converted from the old paper factory. We also had kitchenette, so making our tea was not an issue. It was our truly "home away from home" in Palermo.

It is centrally located, but is difficult to find, person we dealt with via email spoke English but when we arrived we were greeted by a nice lady, but she didn't speak any English, so we were unable to communicate at all; very dark and stuffy room, no screens on windows, lots of mosquitoes, no privacy. We ended up leaving and finding a hotel. I don't like leaving poor reviews, just don't want others to be as disappointed as we were.

We had 2 rooms here. Both were really spacious, clean, very charming. It is a good location for walking to markets and other sights but the neighborhood was not great, though we felt safe in our small group. Parking is a mess, get instructions or figure it out before you arrive. I would use the train next time because driving is just nuts, worse than Florence

Nice hotel, close to city center and transport. Airport Express right outside the front door. Good breakfast with free choice of coffee, and some 'real food' like ham and selection of cheese together with the mamelades. Very firendly staff.

If you would like to feel like you are part of Palermo's medieval past (in the best way possible) choose one of Ai Cartari's two extremely atmospheric rooms. The location is also very convenient for walking around the old town.

my wife and I stayed here for 2 nights at start of our Sicily trip. Before our stay the owner Rosi was very helpful giving us directions to the B&B as i had read that it is hard to find so we had no problems walking to it from the train station which was only 10 minutes away. Ai Cartari is in a great location in the La Kalsa district a minute walk from some great restaurants and bars and shopping streets. Our room was the downstairs room which was huge with large double bed with lots of wardrobe space and a lounge area with sofa's we also had with our own private door/gate onto a small square. There was also a strong free wifi connection in the room. our problem with our room was the lack of privacy and that we had no control over the a/c. Our room was downstairs beneath the dining area and Rosi's own living area but there is no wall seperating the two areas at the stairs only a curtain and the bathroom which is underneath the stairs is not covered by the curtain so it is possible for people upstairs to see down into the bathroom and also every conversation can be heard. The a/c is centrally contolled by Rosi and we had to ring her to turn it on which is a hassle and then it is turned off during the night, which as we are from Ireland and not used to any heat was a problem for us. Maybe if we had stayed in a different room upstairs i would give better than an average score.