We enjoyed our stay at Gianluca’s place a lot! Gianluca was very nice and thoughtful and he has an amazing, clean and unique house (with air conditioning - a HUGE plus in the summer heat!). Might be a bit tricky with very active toddlers to manoeuvre the spiral staircase up and down to the rooms but we didn’t have any issues and our little one absolutely loved the space to run around on the ground floor.
Gianluca’s house is situated in the old town which is really interesting to walk through and where we found nice restaurants and cafes. It is also within walking distance to the basilica holding Saint Nicholas’ bones. What is most interesting about Gianluca’s house is the fact that it is on a working, breathing residential street so you get a good feel of the local life instead of just doing the typical tourist thing!
We had a bit of trouble locating the place when we first got there but Gianluca and his lovely family were on hand to collect us and give us a tour of his house. Gianluca was a great host asking if we required a baby cot and also checking up on us the next day to see how we were going.
Piece of advice- Closest parking is at the Piazza Liberta carpark which is free from 8:30pm - 8:30am. We chose one of the busiest periods to visit Bari so I’m not sure if it applies all year round, but we found that the carpark starts filling up near 7:30pm-ish and it becomes quite hard to find parking after 8:30pm.
Overall we had a lovely stay. Would definitely stay at Gianluca’s if we came back to Bari again!