Super value modern apartment with pleasant and peaceful outlook!
We (myself and teenage daughter) had a super one week stay in Angelo's apartment. It has lovely high ceilings and is furnished in a modern style and has one double bed (daughter) and a really easy and comfortable double sofa bed (me). There is a nice little balcony where you can squeeze a dining chair for morning coffee or evening drink which overlooks botanical garden and Vesuvius so it's both pleasant and quiet for a good nights rest. The kitchen and shower room are small but perfectly adequate. Angelo doesn't speak much English (my Italian is embarrassingly non existent) but his friend helped out with communications and they were both super responsive to our various questions that we forgot to ask at check in. Naples is highly recommended for a truly authentic stay and we felt completely safe and didn't have any hassles, simply taking the usual precautions that we would do in London.
The opportunity to do lots of trips from Naples was awesome; we visited Pompeii and Vesuvius (the busvia del vesuvius is highly recommended, great for older kids), Capri, the Amalfi coast and even Rome via high speed train, on top of everything that Naples has to offer. There is a great book in the flat, Tutti Napoli, which although in Italian maps out some great walking tours.
The apartment is located a short hop on the 202 bus from the central Piazza Garibaldi (although we found the service a bit unreliable...clearly not Angelo's fault). You can walk it too (30 mins) but as we were often out for 10-12 hours we were ready for the bus and didn't want to splurge on a taxi all the time! A Handy pizzeria, Corallo, by bus stop was great for picking up a pizza after a busy day sightseeing.
A great holiday, thank you Angelo!