Light holiday home

I traveled around Europe and always chose accommodation with a rating above 9, and with that standard in mind, this accommodation should not have a rating above 7.5. The apartment is not tidy and does not look like the pictures, nor does it have that square footage. (Perhaps only if the terrace is taken into account, which is large but not a real space that is used) A lot of things are not right, the toaster does not work, there is no electric cooker, but there is a hot plate cooker which is terribly dirty and full of limescale. A huge drawback is that there are no mosquito nets on the windows, and mosquitoes and bugs keep coming in. The location is noisy. You can't sleep in the room next to the bathroom because of the noise of the water tank that is next to the bedroom wall. The landlady tried twice to charge us the tourist tax because we came two at a time to the apartment. They offer a ride from/to the airport but charge much more than any Palermo taxi. Toiletries were written to be available, but there were only two rolls of paper for 4 people for 11 days.

Everything was great.

Very comfortable apartment for family stay. I could enjoy Palermo city as we are living there.

We need to use shower with some interval to wait for the hot water.

The apartment was cosy and spacious. Nicely decorated in a beautiful building in a side street. The location is 10-15 minutes walk to Palermo Cathedral and main attractions. The host Julia was helpful, provided our requested needs and gave us nice tips for car rentals and places to go. We had a late check-in which was arranged at an extra fee prior our arrival & they were accommodating when our flight was even further delayed.

There was a construction site across from the apartment which made our mornings quite noisy due to construction work and drilling. This ofcourse is out of the hands of the owners/hosts. However, we arrived during the weekend so everything was peaceful and lovely but as soon as the week started came all the loud noise!! Hope it will end soon since its a lovely place. The main street coming into the apartment is very basic (not so clean, no good cafes/restaurants or groceries), so will need to go far for all that which is not so convenient If you are staying for long like in our case a washing machine would have been good, laundry hangerlines and perhaps an iron as well!