Anyone visiting Naples would be thrilled to have come across the room offered by Simone Florio. It is in the center of the center of the old city at the top of an historic mansion with the rarity of a modern elevator going up to the large apartment from which the room is well separated, being right next to the entrance. You can see Vesuvio from the windows, which have a view unencumbered by nearby buildings. The room is immaculate and decorated with taste, and Simone and the others in his family could not be more charming, helpful, and welcoming.

At the time I booked the place, Google Maps had a terrible picture of graffiti'ed walls mistakenly labled as this address. The neighborhood looked so bad on the Streetview that if I had not already made the reservation, I would have passed it by. This picture could not be more wrong. For the narrow streets of historic Naples, do not trust the Streetview that you find on Google. It is often laughably wrong, like showing the waterfront for a street that's halfway up one of the steep hills. Unfortunately, if you don't know the city yet, there is no way to tell whether what it shows is reasonable.