Background: I’ve traveled to many places, so I understand what is usually a travelers’ expectation.
To start, I stayed for 3 weeks at Roberto and Francesca’s house during the Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Pro:
- location! It was on a prime location that helps with giving access to most of Palermo’s historic sites. Also, perfect place for night life as both Vucciria market and Piazza Anna are both close by.
- very comfortable apartment, was able to put both beds together in the living room and made this into a 2 bedroom apartment. It has all the things you need (except no laundry washer in my unit).
- Roberto was very helpful, also providing suggestions and help where possible, even giving me the option to do laundry in one of his other close by units as there was a washer in that one.
- pastries and treats! Not to say it’s done for everyone, but Roberto always offered free connolis and pizza for us, but it might have been for the holidays, but still very great ful (and full!)
Cons:
Location, there was of course always some loud people every now and then at night, since bars are not too far… and the windows didn’t give great sound proofing, so the noise can be annoying for light sleepers.
Construction: I think all of Palermo was doing construction, so no matter where you were, there was construction. We had noises from construction start as early as 8am, and it’s annoying, but out of the control of the host.
Other than that, great place :)