We spent adorable weekend in Ortigia and were left with some thoughts to share.
First thing: if you travel by car, highly suggest to reserve the paid parking (10€ per day)- its impossible to park on the street. If you have a big car- don’t even try to drive at place- streets are very narrow and crowded, driving in Ortigia is extremely hard, it’s far better to take a walk.
The apartment itself is big, nice and comfortable, yet it’s good to notice it’s 2nd floor, an old tenement house, at first sight the hallway looks a bit creepy in the night, later we loved it :)
The neighbours are very nice and helpful.
The place is very well-situated, close to everything, you just have to walk down the stairs and there you are, in a middle of city night- life. It has the price- the streets are very loud, due to covid everything closes at 12pm, but I guess normally you can forget the sleeping to the early morning ;)
What suprised us- there is a school building just opposite the street, so it’s loud at the morning as well. Didnt bother us so much, but if you want to sleep in the morning, we suggest the earplugs.
Besides the little inconvenients, we can honestly recommend the lovely apartment of Emmanuela&Peppe, to enjoy the time at extremely beautiful Ortigia, really worth it!