Positive - Charming mosaics, central location and Dario is a friendly host. He gave me good recommendations for eating places. He tried to call the bus service to check timings for me to go to mondella beach, which I greatly appreciate.
Negatives:
- The apartment is dirty. The shower curtain is sticky, bathroom mat is very dirty, all the table surfaces are sticky, kitchen is very dirty. The profile says the host commits to enhanced cleaning, but I failed to see even normal cleaning.
- When I arrived, the room was not ready. I was allowed to check in earlier than 2pm, which I am grateful for, but I wouldn't have minded if I had to wait for the room to be ready. There was garbage in the room from the previous guest, which I had to remove myself. The bed sheets from previous guest were still on, which Dario removed in front of me. He then gave me new clean bed sheets to put on the bed myself. Dario mentioned that there is a huge turnover of guests in the apartment.
- Breakfast is not provided, even though it is mentioned in the profile. There are only half opened cookies packets from previous guests.
- There were empty bottles of shower and shampoo in the bathroom. I had to get new ones from a shop myself for use.
- AC is in the common area, and to get the coolness inside the room, one needs to keep the room door open. But if there are other guests in the apartment, that is not always the most comfortable thing to do. And if you open the window, the noise from nearby families can keep you up. So the room can get quite hot.
I myself wouldn't stay there again if I were in Palermo again. Only reason I didn't try to find another place to stay is that it was my last two days of the trip, I didn't want to loose the reservation money, I was very tired when I arrived and I didn't want to find another place on the spot.