The apartment was an absolutely delightful place to stay, even better than the description on the website. It is cozy and cute, tastefully decorated with lovely little accents, well-equipped and very clean. The apartment is on a fairly quiet street, but close to center of town and to Porta Messina, where the local bus shuttle to the Lumbi public parking garage stops. Maria is a most helpful and charming host, and promptly answered all our questions via email and text. She was kind enough to provide Nespresso coffee pods and some extra little "treats" as well. Thank you, Maria, we had a fabulous stay at your lovely apartment :-) P.S. to those traveling by car: if you aren't familiar with Taormina, get DETAILED instructions from Maria to the Lumbi parking garage. We rented a car in Catania, and thought we could rely on GPS. But our GPS didn't work well when we got close to Taormina because the parking garage is above a tunnel. So GPS sent us in circles, then in the middle of the tunnel our GPS announced, YOU HAVE ARRIVED! Ha! So we lost about an hour travel time getting through the tunnel, backtracking through the extremely narrow streets around Taormina, etc. Also, the circular ramp to the lower parking level is SO narrow, the tires on our compact size Ford scraped the sides of the ramp all the way down, and I feared for the fenders and bumpers! If we had to do it again, we would probably take the bus from Catania airport and forget about the car.