Alberghi e Resort di lusso

Lieu fantastique, calme et charme, service courtois et attentionné, prestations gastronomiques appréciables...Un bonheur à recommander chaudement ou tenir secret...

L'hotel est propre et bien placé assez proche de Taormina. Les chambres ont un bon rapport qualité /prix. Les repas du soir par contre sont sous forme de buffet assez basiques et le prix est surfait. Le personnel de la réception est très gentil et essaye de bien aider les touristes, mais leur connaissance de la sicile et des visites à y faire sont plutôt limitées.

The room was very nice and clean. It is hard to find places like that in Sicily. The staff was friendly but no one spoke English. We didn't find the pool or the afternoon drinks and appitizers like the web site said. Overall, we were happy with our choice but wish that we knew a little more about what the hotel offered.

The pros: We were treated fairly by the hotel staff and the hotel manager was very nice on letting us leave earlier than we booked, even reimbursing the remaining 2 days we had booked. Good service here, no doubt. The Cons: 1st things 1st, this hotel simply shouldn't be listed on a website branded i'castelli, whose marketing positioning is "luxury hotels, charming and boutique hotels". This is a resort like club medyish type of hotel, with live loud music, umbrella drinks and large families with children. Overall this is a big, "loud", buzzling hotel, not complying with the "luxury" mor the "charming and boutique". It is not the hotel's fault here, because customers who do enjoy this type of scenario/hotel/resort, should probably go to this hotel, with a good view of the taormina bay. The main target miss here goes to icastelli and not to the hotel itself. The staff was ok and in fact the girl at the reception desk was extremely nice and helpful. Final note: kudos to icastelli's reservation call center operator, Marco Orlando, extremely helpful and resourceful. He resolved our changing of hotel with expertise and suggested hotels more in line with the positioning "boutique and charming". Thanks also to the hotel manager at Capo dei Greci, who allowed us to change our booking without losing our money.