palazzo pantaleo

Palazzo Pantaleo We stayed here when visiting Palermo. We found it on Booking.com, believing that this was a hotel. Pantaleo is not a hotel, or a motel. It is a B&B located in a commercial building. The location central to all the sights we wanted to see, although there weren’t many dining options in the near vicinity. The B&B is located on the third floor of a rambling, slightly shabby and run down building. Our room, however was large, clean and airy. It did not lack for anything, with the old building’s tiled floor adding charm and character. The main flaw of this place is that there are no lights which are left on in the building at night. All the lights are on timers, so one steps into pitch darkness in a doorway, or corridor or elevator, holding your breath and hoping the automatic light comes on as you move forward in the complete darkness. I was relieved to be traveling with my husband as I would have been extremely nervous moving through the building on my own. I would not recommend any woman stay here alone. On our first night, we returned after dinner and couldn’t get the lift to work. As we waited for the lift to come, the lights went out ( they are all on timers and only stay on for a few seconds) and we were in pitch darkness in a large and silent building. We had to find our way up some side stairs in the darkness. Another aspect of Pantaleo is the breakfast. By this time, after various stops in other Italian cities, we were used to the type of Italian breakfasts served. What’s on offer here is an bewildering array of cheap sweet breads and biscuits, unripe hard fruit which you cannot cut or bite in to, and a few boiled eggs which are so over boiled, they are rock hard and the yolk is powdery. The three vacuum jugs of black coffee, milk and hot water had not been washed in a very long time. The milk vacuum jug had a thick ring of dried and caked milk around the rim for all the days we were there. After facing this for two mornings in a row, we chose to eat some yoghurt in our room on the last morning. We had really expected on be in a small hotel at this point of our trip. We had some papers that needed to be printed witnessed and signed and without a front desk facility to help those became a challenge. We weren’t able to ask at a desk about restaurants, transport to various sites and where we could purchase medications. In short: go for the room. Don’t go for the building or the breakfast.

Very centrally located and close to main attractions.

Finding the actual Carpark / entrance first time was very hard and especially when trying to book cars for pick up.

Proper B&B - old school charm - amazing breakfast and host

Wonderful stay. Giuseppe was very helpful. Lovely location.

Property owner the warmest host !

Excellent location: central but quiet