We were three girl friends that traveled to Catania for a week of vacation in the sun. The apartment is located very close to the main shopping street, Via Etna, which is nice. Still, the street is relatively quiet and calm. The air conditioning made it possible to enjoy our stay even though it was very warm outdoors :) The beach is not that close, you have to walk 10 km and then take a 10 min bus ride to the closes one, but it was easy and fun to experience using public transportation! Catarina and Simon was very nice and hospitable and did everything in their power to make out stay as absolutely good as possible. We can strongly recommend Catarina and Simon as hosts and the apartment was nice and clean.