Naples Vacation Rental apartment: Napoli

L’appartement est situé dans le coeur historique de Naples, dans un palais plein de charme. Tout Naples est accessible à pied à partir de là. De nombreuses églises sont à visiter juste en se promenant dans la même rue. Adjacente à la via dei Tribunali, la Via San Gregorio Armeno, est entièrement consacrée à l'art de la crèche et fait la joie des enfants. A deux pas des autres elements d'architecture du centre historique; ainsi que de la Rue Toledo, centre du shopping de la ville. La gare qui mène à Pompei,Herculanum et le Vésuve est à 10 mn de marche. Vraiment idéal pour une visite sans perdre de temps dans les transports.
L’appartement est aménagé et décoré avec goût. Excellent rapport qualité/prix avec la classe en plus, contact facile pour la réservation. Toute petite terrasse sur les toits avec vue sur le Duomo. Vastes chambres, très claires, dont l'une donnant sur le Vésuve. Lits excellents, tout est très propre et en bon état de marche.
La propriétaire est charmante, attentionnée et discrète, tout à la fois. Parfait et sympathique accueil. Quelques ingrédients de base dans la cuisine, ce qui est bien utile. Nous dirions simplement parfait pour un séjour de quelques jours à Naples. Il faut juste faire attention au fait qu'il est au quatrième étage du palais sans ascenseur et comprend un escalier intérieur non protégé pour de jeunes enfants. Pour nous (couple et trois ados) cela n'était pas un souci. Nous recommandons chaleureusement cet appartement!

The apartment is exactly as described; the airco part pertains only to the upper floor (where with a little bit effort, as climbing on a chair, a lot of Naples and surroundings can be seen). The nuns in the convent opposite the street, which means 6 metres away, sing you awake at six o´clock in the morning, which leaves ample time for discovering Napoli and surroundings. Churches everywere; I didn´t count them but there must be some 200 or more. Climbing the stairs was an effort for me and my wife, not for our son or his girlfriend, but we are over 60 and were forewarned. The apartment was impeccably clean, the bedrooms are spacious; kitchen and livingrooms are small. Emanuela Grimacci is a gem; very friendly and helpful.
Places to go: walking to the Duomo, San Domenico maggiore, Gesu nuovo, Santa Chiara. A bit further away, at the end of the via Toledo, the Piazza del Plebiscito, the Galleria Umberto I, San Francesco di Paola. Don´t forget the churches in the direct neighbourhood: San Lorenzo, San Paolo, and directly opposite the San Gregorio Armeni (the last to my taste far overdone, actually)
Take from Stazione Cumara (easy to find from Piazza Dante) the funicolare to Montesanto, and visit first the museum (go right from the station); after that the acces to Castel St Elmo is free.
After visiting Pompei (and Ercolano, and the Vesuvius) go to the Museo Archeologico Nazionale: everything you thought to find there is in the museum!
We made a day´s trip to Capri; big tourist trap, but beautyful. Go with the funicolare to the centre of Capri city and walk down the other side: you are in fifteen minutes to the other side of the island, and there is nobody.. If you want to visit the blue grotto: look out, some boats say they are going there but only pass by!Take the last boat back: Napoli from sea at night is a sight you must have seen once.
Bus lines are very unreliable; reaching Capodimonte we found almost impossible.
Taxi to the airport from the apartment cost us 15 euro.
Very recommended apartment and visit, but you must be in an fair condition!

This apartment is in a perfect location in the ancient part of Naples and also within walking distance of the main bus and train stations. The accommodation is well presented, very comfortable and full of character. We are a family of 2 adults and 2 teenagers and needed 3 bedrooms and this property gave us 3 spacious bedrooms and a room that we used as an upstairs sitting room with a small roof terrace. The kitchen and dining area was useful, although the restaurants nearby were good and reasonably priced inspite of the exchange rates. The two rooms upstairs had very effective air-con and one bedroom downstairs had an effective fan. Naples was very hot so it was good to be able to come home and cool down. The apartment is on the fourth floor and the stairs are challenging after a busy day. We just imagined all the calories from the pizza, pasta and ice-cream that we were using up!
Emanuela was very kind and helpful and gave us useful tips about places to eat etc. Her help and interest in our plans really enhanced the holiday.
We felt very safe and secure in the apartment and the streets around the old city, both during the day and in the evening. The main hazard in Naples was the traffic. Don't expect the traffic to stop when you step out onto a zebra crossing! Our top tip here is to cross with a local and look confident! Having said that, we enjoyed the kindness of strangers many times during our week, including the bus driver who charged no extra, made an unsheduled stop and gave us directions after we failed to get off at the right place.
Every where we walked we found places to visit. We used public transport to get to Pompei, Herculaneum and to access Vesuvius. There are huge numbers of places to visit within a 5 to 30 minute walk of the apartment. The church oppostite and adjoining cloisters, for example are a gem as are the museum and underground streets at the top of the road. You will need to take a good guide book with you because there really is an over-abundance of sightseeing to do. Our teenagers are both under 18 and many places we visited had free or half price entry for them, as long as we showed their passports as proof of age.
We would gladly recommend the apartment to friends and also return ourselves to explore all the places we didn't have time to see on this visit.