Kalamarina Rooms B&B

“palermo tour”

very large rooms, with ethnic furnishings, it's near to the centre of city, to the port and to Puccineria. perfect location for a tour of the city. The breakfast is at the bar, in front of the hotel, tipically italian breakfast.

“nice”

Nice place to stay with a good location in the charming part of Palermo with narrow winding streets. Friendly staff, the room was ok, although we expected to have larger balcony. Checked in late in the evening, found the staff in the restaurant next door to the hotel.

“15 minute walk from train station”

We stayed here in October for two nights. We arrived at around 9 pm and a very nice lady who was working at the restaurant across from the B&B provided us with the key and some information. Our room faced the piazza and it is quite loud until 11 pm which is when the restaurants close. The next … more

We stayed here in October for two nights. We arrived at around 9 pm and a very nice lady who was working at the restaurant across from the B&B provided us with the key and some information. Our room faced the piazza and it is quite loud until 11 pm which is when the restaurants close. The next morning the owner was there for a few hours and we had breakfast (basic but good) and did our official check-in. Keep in mind we were without wifi all that time. Speaking of, the wifi is spotty at best. Our room was large as it had two sitting areas and then the bed up on the mezzanine where we could not get wifi. We had to be in the first living room in order to use it. Then I'm not sure if the owner turned the wifi off or not because in the evening when we came back, it was spotty to non-existent. The room as I mentioned was quite spacious but what weird was we hung out towels up on the hooks after using them. When we returned that night, then had been re-folded! Not sure why someone would re-fold a towel that was used! We were allowed to leave our bags there when we checked out as our train was later that day. The owner provided us with a key. However keep in mind it's a quite a climb and unfortunately it would have been nice if the owner had offered to help us with our bags as he saw us struggling! Oh well...! It's a basic stay here and it's not super close to anything so I'd suggest selecting a hotel that's a bit closer to or on the main street.

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“Good base for visit, lively night-life area.”

We retrieved the key from the very personable host at the restaurant in front of the hotel. We parked our car in the piazza out back and yes, we paid 5 Euros a day to an 'attendant' who patrolled this plot of land. These entrepreneurs are everywhere in Palermo. There are free parking spots close to… more

We retrieved the key from the very personable host at the restaurant in front of the hotel. We parked our car in the piazza out back and yes, we paid 5 Euros a day to an 'attendant' who patrolled this plot of land. These entrepreneurs are everywhere in Palermo. There are free parking spots close to the waterfront but still, we were accosted by men asking a small fee for safeguarding our car. I suppose that we could have told them to buzz-off but our Italian isn't up to par. We were in the 'Grecale' room which faces the piazza and a park. The space is divided in two rooms; one sitting-room with a sofa-bed, bathroom, closet and bar-fridge and the bedroom with a table, chairs and the bed set up on a mezzanine. The steps to the mezzanine were narrow and steep. A word to the wise; running down these steps at night for the bathroom might be quite dangerous. Oh, the toilet seat was broken off... Breakfast was fine; coffee, juices, choice of 2 kinds of fresh fruit, bread, cakes, croissants and jam. There are a number of eateries, restaurants, cafés, clubs on via Bottai and across via Vittorio Emmanuele so there is a lot of ambiance at night. Relax, join in and enjoy.

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