Brigitte’s ‘cozy apartment with a garden view’ was exactly as advertised on the Airbnb website—‘a cozy apartment with a great garden view’. It is charming, tastefully decorated, well equipped, well located (we walked everywhere we wanted to go and never took a taxi except coming in from the airport, and then going to the rental car office at the end of our stay).
There are a couple of very nice restaurants within a minute’s walk, and a supermarket within a 5 minute walk. The harbor is 5 minutes away as is Piazza Marina and one end of Via Vittorio Emmanuele, the ‘main drag’ of Palermo. It is about a 30-40 minute walk to the Cathedral, Teatro Massimo, Balaro Market, and Royal Palace, and Brigitte’s apartment is in the historic Old Town.
Brigitte is also very nice, friendly, and helpful. She did a good job orienting is to everything, and her place was easy to settle in to. We enjoyed getting to know her and we certainly enjoyed our stay in her apartment.