Artemisia Palace Hotel

Very Clean, Small Room and VERY LOUD Artemisia hotel The good: The staff is friendly and front desk speaks multiple languages and it is very clean throughout. Furniture is new, but it is plain and cheap. Functional, but not comfortable to stay in the room for extended periods of time. The included breakfast was adequate. The location is excellent for shopping and sightseeing and there are many excellent restaurants close by. The bad: The entire facility is stone, marble, and tile. No carpeting at all in the rooms. While it is clean, this means it is exceptionally LOUD. You can hear running water, showers, and toilets flushing from neighboring rooms and other floors. When furniture is moved – the entire ceiling or floor rattles. When people are talking (or drunk) coming up and down the stairs, you can hear every step they take and their voices boom throughout the entire hotel. The doors all slam shut and the walls echoed. There were two small windows in my room, so no view and little natural light. My room began to smell like cooking food and cigarette smoke. At the center of the courtyard is a very loud family that cooks and smokes all day. It was disgusting. Bathroom is tiny and cramped. At least the hotel is clean, but I would never stay here again

This hotel is ideally situated in Palermo. We are a few hundred yards from the hop on hop off bus stop and about 15 minutes walk from the Tetro Massimo. The train station is also easily accessible and a few stops on the bus. Our original room was on the first floor and quite small and noisy, but we asked to be moved and we were moved to a suite on the top floor. Room 404 is definitely the room to ask for! it is very spacious with a balcony that goes around two sides and like every other room in the hotel, spotlessly clean. The breakfast room is small but adequate and there is a very wide choice of food. My friend is coeliac and there was a wide choice, for her in the hotel, as well as in most of the restaurants in Palermo. All the staff at the hotel are incredibly helpful and we would definitely visit again.