Giorgio has a beautiful apartment in a central area of Palermo — unfortunately it was a little hard for us to enjoy with all the noise around the building.
The noise from the ristorante below continued until 1/2 AM everynight with people shouting and dragging tables. On top of that, there were people yelling and running through the apartment building until the wee hours of the morning. I don’t think either of us were able to get a good night sleep any night of our stay.
On top of the noise, the place was a little dirty in places. When we first entered the apartment everything seemed clean with the fresh towels, sheets and cleaned surfaces. However when we tried to enjoy the bottle of wine Giorgio gifted us we found that both of the wine glasses still had lipstick on them from previous guests. When we looked for other kitchen utensils we also found several uncleaned.
Wanting to get a bit of fresh air was a bit of a challenge with the strong smell of garlic which wafted into the apartment from the kitchen below anytime we tried to open the windows.
The place itself was very nice but the above factors made for a pretty unenjoyable stay.