My girlfriend and I both work remotely so we travel often and we use Airbnb all the time. This was, by far, our very best experience with Airbnb.
If you can believe it, the apartment is even better than the pictures show. It is stunning and spacious and perfectly designed. Everything is brand new and spotlessly clean.
It comes with a fully equipped kitchen stretching across a spacious hallway to a stylish living room (with a pull-out sofa bed). It has two separate bedrooms (one beautiful master bedroom with high ceilings and another double room on the other side of the apartment) and a huge bathroom. There is air conditioning throughout the whole apartment (which is a very nice treat in the summer). And it has absolutely everything you need, including an oven, washing machine, iron and ironing board, hair dryer, and fast WiFi.
You can enjoy your morning breakfast or your afternoon coffee on the cute little balcony overlooking the busy but quiet life of the local neighborhood full of mini fresh markets, bakeries, and pastry shops. There is also a supermarket literally around the corner.
It’s in the perfect location in a quiet, safe residential area just around the corner from all the tourist sites. It’s about a 10 minute walk to most of the major sites in Palermo and super close to really good restaurants, pizzerias, coffee shops, cafes, and bakeries.
This apartment is so well designed that we couldn’t find a single thing that we would change about it. We had the opportunity to call it “home” for a month and it was a blessing for us to live here. We had the most wonderful time.
But, even beyond the beautiful apartment, the very best part of our stay was definitely our amazing hosts. Lucia, Carmelo (her husband), and Vittoria (their daughter whose art decorates this magical home) were such a pleasure. They never rang the bell to our apartment without surprising us with a bag full of tasty local homemade specialities from their garden or sweet treats from the bakery. They gave us so much useful information about Palermo and even took us around the city on personalized, guided tours as we enjoyed each other’s company.
We’ve been friendly with our hosts before but we really felt like Lucia, Carmelo, and Vittoria became our friends. We went out to eat with them, we went to the market with them, we started a group message chat and send each other photos...essentially, they have been the most welcoming, friendly, and warm hosts we’ve ever met and it has been such an absolute pleasure and joy to stay at their beautiful apartment. They will be superhosts within no time.
There are not enough stars in the sky to rate this place correctly...it really is that amazing. So, we just want to say a very big “Graaazie miiillle” to our beautiful friends and give them a big hug for everything they did for us!