If you are looking for a place to stay in Palermo and your dates are available for this apartment, STOP LOOKING. You have found your spot.
This apartment is the best of all worlds. It is right in the heart of the hippest neighborhood (kind of Brooklyn-y, in the best sense) with seemingly endless options for great places to eat (and shop, if that's your thing) and go out at night, but it is in the back of the building, so it is just beautifully quiet. You wake up in the morning looking at trees and listening to the chirping of birds. It's so peaceful.
And honestly, I walked every inch of the neighborhood multiple times, and at night I was so thankful that I didn't end up in an apartment with a balcony that looked out onto the street. I can't imagine how loud it is to be in one on the weekends when the nightlife really turns on.
It is adorable, very clean, and everything in the kitchen is new. I work online and need dependable Internet to do my job on the road. I stayed there for 2.5 weeks and had no problems getting everything I needed to get done - including conducting multiple meetings on Skype that would have been a disaster with a bad connection.
And Walter and Tea really are as fantastic as everyone says they are. Tea sent me messages any time she heard of something cool going on in the neighborhood that I might like to check out. I'm celiac and I found a basket of gluten free cookies and pasta and a bottle of wine waiting for me when I checked in, plus a flyer for a gluten-free shop to get more things, if I needed. (There is a fantastic all-gluten-free restaurant just a few blocks away where you can eat bread and tarts and empanadas to your heart's delight, if you have gluten issues -- google map search for "sin taxis." Also, if you like burgers, the Burger Joint is amazing, and the boys at the counter are really nice about giving you your burger "sin pan." And Ninina around the corner is a great cafe with delicious salads -- and my friend says amazing organic bread, if you can eat it.)
Just perfect. Trust me and all the people who've left reviews below me here. You can't find better.