This apartment was in an excellent location to discover the real culture of Naples. In addition, if you like history, the apartment was in an amazing historical building and decorated traditionally.
Two things:
In other reviews, it was noted that it could be quite noisy on weekends from the location of the piazza. We booked on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday so I did not think this would be an issue. And I don't mind the normal noise of restaurants or traffic. However, on all three nights were were kept up very late (Monday night, fireworks were set off right outside on the opposite corner of the piazza around 11:30pm. Tuesday night, drums and whistles were extremely loud for almost 2 hours beginning at 10:30pm and on Wednesday night, it was fireworks and drums starting at 11pm). I looked up whether it was a holiday and it wasn't. As tourists we had early morning schedules, so the late hours being kept awake was inconvenient.
Second, one off the first things the Claudia texted us on our arrival was that because the apartment was old, we may run into electrical problems and overload the breaker. I feel this should have been communicated PRIOR to booking in the listing. Here is a breakdown for other people as we went through a lot of trial and error:
1. if A/C is on, you can not do anything else - including charge a phone. One or two lights might work but small lights not the overhead ones in the bedrooms. Turn anything else on and it will overload.
2. if you use the kettle, you must turn of the A/C plus anything else that you plugged in (phones, hair dryers). And no one can be showering using hot water or it will overload.
3. If you use a hair dryer, you must unplug everything and the A/C will only work in the opposite room or it will overload.
4. Only one shower can be used at a time plus nothing else or it will overload.
Basically, after 24 hours, we did not turn on any lights and used our phones flashlights. And we moved the table/chairs into the large bedroom so that we could be in A/C.