Lordana Is an excellent host and her apartment ideal for an extended stay in Palermo. It’s clean, spacious with a large well lit living room & kitchen plus a NE facing balcony which gets the morning sun over the rooftops.
The apartment was well stocked by Lordana with helpful guidance on local tourist attractions, guidebooks, cleaning materials, garbage bags, an easy to use washing machine and even a vacuum cleaner so one could keep the tiled floors tidy.
Communication was excellent: Lordana & her husband were very responsive and extremely helpful.
We would definitely choose to stay here again if we return to Palermo.
The master bedroom window is well shuttered and faces SW so no light to wake one up too early in the morning, at night the area was really really quite: no sirens, no traffic, not even a dog barking.
There are two well lit bathrooms with excellent showers.
Internet service was both fast and reliable, provided by an AP located in the living room
We were there in early April so no opportunity to cook on the balcony but the kitchen is well stocked with plates /mugs / glasses & has a gas hob and electric oven plus a microwave and large fridge.
There’s a great view from the bathroom window of the city rooftops and mountains in the distance - it turned out that a check in the morning of what the degree of cloud cover on the mountains predicted whether it would rain that day way better than my weather Ap.
A large well stocked Carrefour supermarket is just 80 meters away from the apartment; open 12 hours a day seven days a week. Plus, of course, several street markets selling fresh fish & vegetables within easy walking distance.
The area is the old town and filled with small bars, restaurants and museums. One can have a full day of art, history, eating, drinking plus a promenade along the sea shore with the locals all within 10 minutes walk.
On Sundays there’s an extensive flea market in the square about a minute’s walk from the apartment located beside a small park which has the biggest Ficus Macrophylla ( walking tree ) in Europe in it.
On the way back to the apartment from the Carrefour you’ll see an old gate with a big coat of arms over it which is the entrance to the Palazzo Mirto House Museum - a vast and very well preserved example of a house of the mega rich from the 1800s: takes about 2 hours to see the whole thing.