Three of us spent 3 days in Delia and Ferdinando’s Madelì Golden Home apartment.
This is a super spacious apartment! The photos do not convey the vastness of each of the rooms. When Delia first brought us inside, I was amazed at how big the living areas are! The entry way is beautiful, and leads to the living room on the right, and the hallway to the bedrooms and bathrooms, on the left. The living room is vast and has balconies looking onto the street. All the windows are quality dual pane with shutters outside. The curtains are perfectly matched to the rest of the colors in the room. Everything looks as if it had just been remodeled and is fresh, new, and clean. There are bookshelves with interesting books, and comfortable and elegant couches and chairs to relax in. The decorations and furniture are so beautifully coordinated, that it is a pleasure to just sit in the room and simply enjoy reading a book or talking.
The rooms and bathrooms are down a long hallway that ends at the kitchen. The bedrooms are all on one side of the hall, and the bathrooms on the opposite, so it can be arranged that each room has one corresponding bathroom. Again, the photos do not completely show the beauty of each of the rooms. And the tile and arrangement of each of the bathrooms is wonderful.
The kitchen has everything anyone could need. Everything!
The washer and dryer worked very well, and Delia provided all different kinds of laundry soap, depending on what type of clothes are being washed.
All the cleaning supplies and laundry detergents, soap dispensers in the bathrooms, towels…everything looked brand new! There were even little baskets in each of the bathrooms with extra necessities. Every detail was perfect and beautiful!
There is also an entire array of ‘tourist flyers’, maps, guide books, etc. available to help plan activities in Palermo. Delia gave us a map, with the house marked on it, and also showing all the major sights in the area. From the house, we were able to walk to Capo market, Massimo Theater, the Cathedrale, etc. There are also markets and restaurants close by, or you can get street food in the evening. I enjoyed bringing food home to eat, since it is so nice to spend time in the house.
Delia and Ferdinando are both super excellent hosts. They responded quickly to any inquiry and genuinely wanted to help us, any way they could. Ferdinando even helped us to book a taxi because none of us could speak Italian on the phone to book anything.
Madelì Golden Home is probably the best Airbnb I have ever stayed in. Delia and Ferdinando could teach classes about how to be excellent hosts. I definitely want to stay in their apartment again, but I don’t know when I will be back to Palermo.