This was our first time to Sicily & we ended our week-long journey at Maria’s historical home in Syracuse. As many of the reviews state, it’s ideally located and Maria was as informative as she was friendly . . . what more could you ask for in a host. Maria even went so far as to ride with us (after unloading the luggage) to find safe/free parking for our rental-car . . . and for anyone that’s familiar with the driving the narrow oneway streets in Syracuse, this was greatly appreciated. I/we agree with many of the reviews regarding the actual property (it’s clean, ideally located, spacious & definitely has its own character). Maria had a variety fruits & a pastry/pie for breakfast; however, the coffee machine was not functional. To Maria’s credit, she attempted to change it out with a second machine; however, the second machine also did not work.

So, as far as Maria goes, she’s a very pleasant & helpful person; she seems to have the perfect disposition/temperament to host a B&B. Additionally, she was helpful in responding to a noise complaint as we had to deal with very loud music from a local bar/pub util the early morning hours & because the property is older; even with the windows closed . . . the sound still traveled into the room (78 dBs) with relative ease . . . .

Otherwise, our only real criticism, regarding this property, had to do with the lack of ‘wireless internet’ access. The ‘Air B&B’ advertisement for this property stated that the it had wireless internet access. However, this was not the case . . . & had we known that, we would not have made this reservation. After returning home from vacation, I looked back at some of the previous reviews and one from August had stated a similar complaint (reg. wireless internet) which Maria had indicated she would remedy.

Side Note: I don’t know what the future holds for that new bar/pub that opened up near this property; however, I’d expect there to be more noise complaints in the future as the windows in the property don’t really do much in the way of keeping out sound & this is not a complaint, but an observations and had it not been for music (emanating from that pub) . . . we likely wouldn’t have noticed the noise/sound issues with the windows.