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Reviews of Family Affair

Family Affair
Via XX Settembre, 57, Palermo

Reviews

9.8

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 93 out of 103 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 7 out of 103 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 1 out of 103 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 103 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 103 reviews" "

9.8/10

Cleanliness

9.6/10

Staff & service

9.2/10

Amenities

9.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Thomas, CINCINNATI

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff is wonderful. Elevator available. Easy to access from the airport and via bus through out Palermo.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Adley

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The staff and the service they provide is spectacular , the quality of the breakfast is great and the Rooms have beautiful temas all of then different .
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful spot , everything close by .
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

ELISA

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Dawid

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Amazing little gem. Deserves all the rave reviews. Staff is absolutely fantastic. Suite was gorgeous. Lovely lady at check in was very proud of the city and when "briefly explaining" the area, pretty much designed a custom walking itinerary on their map, highlighting all major spots worth seeing. This was excellent and greatly cut down on wasted time. Upon learning that I was departing early in the morning, on my last night, the staff packed a little to go breakfast and left it in my room the night before. Fantastic small touches for a perfect stay. Highly recommended.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Arlene

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
lovely small hotel with lots of history plus all the modern conveniences. Easy walking distance to lots of great restaurants and the sights of Palermo. Comfy bed. Lovely helpful staff.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing stay! Really convenient location, great rooms, and the breakfast was generous
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kathryn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful and quaint property. The staff were very attentive and friendly.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Simon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Family Affair Palermo
Beautiful room with excellent friendly staff
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Pauline

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Absolutely amazing hotel. Staff were fabulous. Loved how they always seemed to put a messy room back into great order along with cleaning it immaculately. The nicest experience and the room was stunning. Loved out time here and would stay again and thoroughly recommend. Thank you
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joselle

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
If you are visiting Palermo, you absolutely must stay here. It was a perfect experience. Stunning room, excellent staff, delicious breakfast and more! Best place I’ve stayed while traveling!
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kyle

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The rooms are clean, classy and comfortable. The staff was amazing, friendly, welcoming, helpful and competent. Breakfast was excellent with a nice variety of options with great cappuccinos. Thank you for a great four day stay. I would definitely recommend to a friend.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
What a find!
Absolutely terrific place. Staff were so helpful and my wife insists it is the best breakfast she has ever had
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Margaret

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The room was beautiful and the staff was amazing snd so helpful. Delicious breakfast as well
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Bradley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Family Affair is a great place to stay.
We had a wonderful time in Palermo and the Family Affair was a great place to stay. Well located in a nice area of Palermo only 15 minutes walk to the old part of the city. Our room was comfortable and well appointed and the daily breakfasts were great. Our hosts were also very helpful. Highly recommended!
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mario, Paris

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Bellissima struttura, staff eccellente. Camera super comfortevole. Location perfetta per muoversi a piedi.

10/10 Excellent

Wayne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Just a great place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Michi

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We loved everything about this property, location, amenities, our room but the best of all was the staff, especially Emmanuelle. We would definitely recommend this place to anyone and will recommend it to everyone. Thank you so much.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Karen

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Clara

Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Chu-Wen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 8 nights in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

pasquale

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The style was amazing, parking literally within a few meters from hotel, clean, service was amazing, breakfast quaint and included . We had an early departure so they make sure we had breakfast ready for us. Love this place
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Laura Suzanne

Traveled with group, Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful and elegant property with a pleasant helpful staff. Property is near shopping and site seeing.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Fabio

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Just beautiful!!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We’ll be back!
Exceptional rooms in great location. Very friendly and welcoming staff that care about their guests wellbeing. Would certainly recommend to anyone staying in Palermo.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Andrew, Jersey

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The decor was lovely in the suite and the location was excellent. The breakfast was also very delicious and copious and the staff exceptionally helpful and friendly. Really wished we could have stayed longer.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Cheang, London

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great accomodation, clean, great decoration and ambience, very good breakfast spread and very lovely and accomodation staff! Highly recommended!
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Highly recommended. Great location, clean, gorgeous decoration
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Edith, Boston USA

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location in a safe residential neighborhood. Short walking distance to city center. Staffs are friendly and helpful.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
We had a number of early morning starts and the staff prepared breakfast packs which they left in our room the night before. Not required but a great way to look after your customers.
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

J.E.S

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good design Noisy B&B at intersection of busy street, traffic noise all day starting early in the morning, a nightclub next door kept us awake until 2am, noisy apartment above our room. Elevator out of action sometimes had to walk up a lot of stairs. Breakfast more a snack than a meal. Overpriced
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2019
Response from Family Affair on May 14, 2019
hello, we are sorry that the stay in our structure was not to his liking, but honestly for what he writes it seems that he is confused with some other structure in which he will have stayed. in fact all the opinions of the innumerable guests that we have had the pleasure of hosting are totally opposed to his. In the event that the above, as I believe, does not refer to our hotel, I ask you to rectify all the commitment we put in every day to make our guests feel at home. thank you.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Modern interior which makes a feature of the original room decorations. Staff really friendly and helpful. We loved the room we had and would certainly recommend it.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best Hotel Experience Ever
Simply amazing. Best hotel experience I’ve ever had. The staff were so nice and accommodating. Breakfast was splendid and the best I’ve ever had. Also it’s location was super ideal and in a nice neighborhood. This place felt like home.
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Amanda, London

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Due to our bus to Heathrow breaking down, and 2 delayed flights we arrived much later into Palermo than we had initially planned. Family Affair are listed on Expedia as a Hotel so we didn't think it would matter about the lateness of our arrival as it was a hotel right?. No! in fact it's a B&B. So check in is at 8.00pm and that is it! When we arrived feeling very weary at Family Affair it was closed, there is a sign with a ph number for out of hours. Rang the number, no answer, it's 12.00pm we are out in the street worrying that we won't have anywhere to stay. Then some Palermian people pass by and ask if they can assist. They call the number and get through, they explain for us that we have arrived and we need the keys to get in. The person in charge screams down the ph, the chap who's kindly called on our behalf shrugs his shoulders and gives his ph over to me and l endure 10 minutes of the woman running Family Affair shouting at me that we are too late and did we read the small print! After what seems an age l mention refund, only then she relents and says she'll organise a neighbour to give us the keys. The Pizza place right next door is called PiPi Room Pizzas, we stumbled into their restaurant, by now it is 12.50 am, and they are obviously closing. We explain what is going on, they ask if we would like a beer we say yes please! And then they say would we like some food and we order 2 pizzas which were absolutely the best we have ever had. So don't be late
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018
Response from Family Affair Palermo on Nov 16, 2018
Gentili ospiti, ci dispiace abbiate tenuto a precisare lo spiacevole episodio. In quasi tutte le strutture ricettive, al giorno d'oggi è buona educazione far sapere l'orario di arrivo e soprattutto se l'arrivo è notturno e dopo un certo orario di notte. Ci dispiace per il vostro ritardo e ci dispiace perché durante tutto il giorno abbiamo provato a chiamare e scrivere email e messaggi senza mai avere una risposta da parte vostra fino a farci pensare che avevate cambiato idea e non venivate più. Quando avete telefonato alle 12.30 di notte vi abbiamo comunque agevolato nel farvi entrare e mai avremmo potuto e voluto farvi dormire in mezzo alla strada.. Come avete potuto constatare durante il vostro soggiorno siamo gente per bene molto attenta ai nostri ospiti e attenti a farli sentire bene come a casa propria. Spero non abbiate già avuto da qualche altra parte questa esperienza di rimanere fuori a causa del vostro mancato preavviso di arrivo notturno… anche se molto qualcuno avrebbe potuto farlo!

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful, fresh, hospitable, comfortable B&B
Wow, just wow! We stayed in the Rivoli room, which had beautiful, old original ceilings, tiled floors and stone archway over door. It also had two balconies looking onto street. The staff couldn't have been more professional, kind and accommodating. Breakfast had lots of great choices. When we had to check out before breakfast time, I asked the staff if we could get some breakfast beforehand, expecting maybe a few items to take away with us. But they opened breakfast a 1/2 hour before four us. So kind. The location of this place is good, too, walkable to the center attractions. A couple decent restaurants on nearby blocks, too. Would highly recommend this B&B. We felt like royalty.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

bertram

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Gorgeous!
This place was incredible! We were so impressed with the room. Balconies overlooking the streets, beautiful hand painted ceiling, and a super comfortable bed. We could have stayed here weeks. We we definitely be back.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Jo, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
State of the art rooms, perfect location
First off, the location is great! This is a really nice area of Palermo, with loads of designer shops around, as well as nice bars and restaurants. It's a 6 min walk from Teatro Politeama, where you can get on and off the airport shuttle bus and most day trips start from there too. It's about 20 min walk to the old town centre straight down the main road (Via Libertà). Super easy. My boyfriend and I stayed for 4 nights in the La Cala room, which is probably the smallest of the 5 or so that they have. The design is great - all new furnishings, lovely tiles in the bathroom, there's a bidet too etc. The room is very small, with only the bed to sit on and not much storage space. As we were out all day long, it was perfect for us, but if you're used to having a wardrobe, chairs, sofa, it might be a good idea to go for one of the larger rooms. Breakfast was included, with fresh goods from the bakery (incl. cannoli), pistachio cream, jams, cheeses, salamis, yoghurt, muesli, fresh fruit etc. This takes places from 8.30am at a communal table, where, depending on your timing, you might get to sit with the other guests. Hosts are extremely nice and accommodating - we had to skip breakfast one day as we were leaving early and they prepared some snacks the night before for us to take with the next day. Highly recommended! I'd definitely come back here next time.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Charlie, Coral Spring, FL

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Everything you need you found Breakfast is very good Staff absolutly amazing Location is wonderful, near coffee shop and restaurant one block from main street
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Andrew, Sydney, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet Haven
Beautifully decorated, very well managed BNB, located in a quiet part of town. Friendly and helpful staff. Brekki was delicious. Parking station around the corner.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Couldn’t have been better
My boyfriend and I booked Family Affair for our weeks holiday for Palermo and it didn’t disappoint. Situated just out of the busy city centre, everything that you need is a short walk away. We also had a car which we were able to easily park in a car park opposite. Ramona was a perfect host and nothing was too much trouble. The room was spacious and beautifully decorated and had everything that we needed in. We loved the kitchen table style breakfast which meant we got to chat to the other guests over a cup of coffee and a plate of incredible food. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to have a stress free trip to Sicily.
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Sergio, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely Boutique Hotel with amazing staff
The hotel is ideally situated in a quiet part of town, there are lovely shops and restaurants at walking distance, despite not feeling like the busiest part of town. The staff are super friendly and helpful, they organised our boat trip (which is highly, highly recommended). The breakfast was very generous and delicious (but watch out for the sugar content). The rooms are striking, have high ceilings and AC.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Glen, Rotterdam, NL

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
STAY HERE
There isn't enough time or space here to say how amazing my stay was here. From the calming and creative color schemes and decor of the rooms ....to the ease of the hosts who allow you to feel at home in an instant; this is the place to stay. Conveniently located around some of the best places to eat with the locals or to walk into town to see the historical sites. The breakfast area is gorgeous and comfortable with treats that are fresh and delicious. I will, without a doubt, be coming back to stay at Family Affair.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

e, london

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
great stay, perfect location, facilities and outstanding brekfast.can't fault it.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Stay
The B&B itself is a very nice place. You can tell that the owners have put a lot of thought into the place and have done very well doing so. They are very nice and extremely accommodating. I would recommend the place to any couple - we stayed in the economy room which was a tight room - but you can make it work.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

8/10 Good

Giovanni

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Centrale guten Verbindung
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024