Vittorio and his wife are very nice and kind people who made me feel welcome. They don’t speak English, but we managed to communicate in English by WhatsApp. Their small, but cute apartment is perfectly located right in the historic centre of Noto. Although it’s only a few metres from the cathedral and the pedestrian areas one can get there by car (I had no problem in finding it with google maps navigation). There are even a few free parking spaces in the vicinity. The apartment is located on the ground floor of a small house. It is composed of a bedroom with two single beds, a combined kitchen and living room with dining table and sofa, a bathroom with toilet and a separate room for the shower and washing machine. The apartment is nicely decorated, very clean, and both kitchen and bathroom have a high standard. For once there were enough pots, pans, tableware etc. in the kitchen for self-catering. Heating was accomplished by modern air conditioning units in all the rooms. The neighbourhood was quiet in the nights, but this may be different in summer when there are more people on the streets. There is a restaurant in the little cul-de-sac directly opposite to the house. When I stayed there in January, which is heavily off-season on Sicily, the restaurant had only a few customers and used to close early between 10 and 11 p.m. I guess that there is much more bustle in the main season and, hence, more noise.
The only little drawback I experienced was the WiFi. It is not supplied by the hosts but by the above mentioned restaurant for their guests. It’s an open, unsecured WiFi, which may be considered problematic by users who are concerned about the privacy of their data. When I arrived the signal was very weak and unstable in the apartment, but my hosts talked to the restaurant and it got better. During the week of my stay it was working well most of the time, but sometimes the signal was gone for some hours. The people in the restaurant explained to me that they had problems with connecting to the Internet and were waiting for Telecom Italia to fix it.