This apartment exceeded my expectations on all fronts. It is spacious, bright, tastefully decorated, well furnished and just all around a great place to call home for a while.
The internet here was spectacular. We regularly got more than 80MB down and rarely had even the slightest blip with 2 people doing group video calls at once.
While it is not exactly in downtown it is not a far walk and the train station 5 minutes from the apartment will bring you to Palermo Centrale in 15 minutes and runs every 30 minutes.
The front room facing the street has tons of natural sunlight all day long since it is south facing and has huge ~3 meter tall windowed doors to the balconies.
The kitchen is awesome. Tons of space to work with a huge range and quick heating electric oven. It's the perfect place to cook up some amazing food after hitting the nearby markets and grocers.
The street noise is not bad bad anywhere in the apartment and the bedrooms are especially isolated.
The host is very accomodating, gracious and easy to get a hold of. You can tell for him hosting visitors is not simply a business - he really loves introducing people to his city.