We're a couple from the UK, and we have just got back home from spending a week in Sicily and 3 days in Valentino and Paolo's excellent apartment. We only met Valentino who was an excellent host, very welcoming and friendly whose english was superb. We loved their apartment, it is very nicely decorated and furnished, with all of the things we needed. Best of all, it's in a great location with an easy walk into the town, yet not noisy at all. We hugely enjoyed our stay and would definitely recommend it to friends and family. Only slight negative is the amount of steps to get to the accommodation, yet we saw that as a positive in helping us exercise to help burn off the calories from all of the lovely pasta we were enjoying each night in Palermo.