Apartment is very pleasant as it gives onto a lovely inner garden with a really nice pool (this makes it a particularly nice place to stay in the summer). The building also has a nice gym with its own pilates bed. There is 24 h security and the doormen were very pleasant. The neighborhood is nice (a restaurant next door, but also the heart of Palermo with boutiques and lots of restaurants about 10 mn safe and pleasant walk away; MALBA next door; a supermarket and a big mall 2 blocks away)
On the negative side (but easy fixes): the apartment, especially the kitchen, needs a good thorough spring cleaning. There is nothing to make coffee with; some of the utensils (a rusty laddle; a cheese grater with fossilized cheese embedded in it…) need replacing. Having a couple of bars of soap in the bathtub and shower and replacing the empty water jerrycan would be a nice touch…and above all, change the pillows. I have never complained about any pillows but these are torture instruments!