** Not recommended, sorry! **
It's not like us to write a negative review, and I don't like doing it but I feel like people should know a few things before they book this place. We have stayed in many Airbnb and this must have been our worst experience so far. We would NOT recommend this place to our friends/family.
- By far the worst thing is the location, the trains come by every 3-8 minutes and are so loud you can't hear the tv/each other anymore. You literally hear the 'Mind your step' voice from inside of the train. Please be aware that is is a train stop, so you hear the breaks and honks and beeps every time (worse than just trains 'passing by'). We even bought the most expensive earplugs but nothing helps. The whole side of the apartment is windows, that don't close properly, so also hardly any noise isolation there.
- Although it is in Palermo and (way too) close to the subte/metro/train, you still have to take a taxi to get to the nice parts of Palermo, like Palermo viejo or Palermo soho. It is too far to walk and in the blocks surrounding the building are not so many nice places for dinner.
- The terras is nice but we didn't sit there once, because of the obnoxious constant noise.
- The bathtub is really dirty with black stains on the bottom, and for us western people way too small. When we filled the bath, the whole bathroom was under water and they had to have someone to come fix it (they did this in a timely manner, thumbs up).
- The shower has to be held by hand all the time, because the holder is static, not turnable. Also you stand in the tub taking a shower and the nasty plastic shower curtains stick to your body.
- In between trains, the 3-7 minutes of wishful quietness... you hear a constant loud zooming from the very old refrigerator in the kitchen. We unplugged it every night - not nice for the food inside of course.
- The toilet upstairs makes noise for at least 5 min after flushing, every time
- The bed is a 1.40m (small for 2 normal sized ppl!)
- The pool was a main reason to book this place and it wasn't finished yet. Don't expect much from the gym, very old equipment, small space and hassle to arrange the key every time. No AC there.
- There wasn't a normal coffee machine. It's 2018.
I think it's very clear from our review: we would recommend you to look further to enjoy your stay in the beautiful city of BA more.