This apartment is beautiful and very well located, and Monica was a very attentive host. She greeted us with a delicious local cake and wine, and brought us fresh ricotta during our stay.
The bedrooms are very spacious and each has an ensuite bathroom, which is great. The kitchen is very small, but we were only using it to make coffee and toast each morning. You have to walk about 10 minutes across a couple of busy streets to reach the closest coffee bar. There are good restaurants nearby.
One guest felt the heating did not warm the apartment enough in the evenings, but the rest of us were comfortable.
The location is very close to the center and the main sights of Palermo, and yet it's very quiet because it is on the outskirts of the city, near the port.
We had a couple of leaks - one from a toilet and flooding in one bedroom due to a heavy rainfall - but Monica lives upstairs and attended to these problems immediately.
The only thing we missed was a comfortable common space to gather in (there is a small loveseat near the dining table) but if the weather had been a bit warmer, we could have easily gathered outside on the patio of the garden, which is lovely.
All in all, we would highly recommend this rental.