Our new favourite landing spot in Catania
A long-ish review as this is a new apartment & thought some details might be helpful:
We only stayed here one night, but Tiziana’s apartment was perfect for what we were looking for - a beautiful, spacious place to stay on arrival in Catania before we headed south to meet friends elsewhere.
The apartment is located above a beautiful square hosting fish market during the day and some excellent restaurants at night - perfect for an excellent meal on arrival and romantic digestivo on the balcony afterwards. The general location is also perfect for exploring the old city’s bars and restaurants, and sights in general - really the spot couldn’t be much better.
There are a few points about the apartment which absolutely did not diminish our stay, but are worth noting - the apartment is above a working market and next to some train tracks, so there is some outside noise in the morning and during the day - the apartment is well-isolated/sound-proofed, but esp on market days you’ll still hear the market set-up if you’re a light sleeper for sure. Also notable is that the building was recently renovated & the apartment & those next to it seem to have been set up specifically for this kind of rental (with a hotel-style key switch that keeps the lights on etc). This doesn’t at all undermine the ambience of the apartment however, which is spacious and characteristically decorated, with high ceiling.
Tiziana and Simone were friendly, gracious and efficient hosts/managers and the apartment was immaculately clean thanks to a terrific cleaning crew — enhanced measures are advertised during covid & they certainly seemed to be thoroughly followed (they were also very kind/gracious with us when we’d failed to notice the 10 am checkout the cleaning requires, & needed a little extra time to organise ourselves).
All it all the place was perfect for us, and if you’re looking for a stay with no logistical fuss yet still all the romance of a characteristic apartment with balcony overlooking authentic scenes of Sicilian life (and are fine with the authentic sounds of the same), then this is probably the place for you too.