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Mount Etna


TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 5.0 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #1 of 19 attractions in Catania
Traveler Description: Mount Etna is the tallest active volcano of Europe and the 2° most active volcano of the World. It's located in the east side of Sicily in the... more »
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Attraction type: Volcano
Activities: Hiking, Mountaineering, Group tours/bus tour

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5 of 5 stars
MissKDonkey   1 contribution
Carlton
Nov 4, 2009
1
person found this review helpful

We went to Mt Etna on Saturday 24th October with a company called etnaexperience.com. We booked it through our accomodation: Catania City Centre B&B, our guide was Mario, and he was great. We left Catania at 9am and returned approx 3pm. The weather on Etna wasn't good, cloudy and raining, Mario made the trip really worthwhile with his extensive knowledge... more

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5 of 5 stars
mpicardi   2 contributions
Houston
Oct 29, 2009
1
person found this review helpful

I hired Sicily limousine Service to transport us from Palermo to Taormina and then to take us on a private tour of Mount Etna. The driver that we had was Claudio and he was extremely nice and courteous. He was aldso very punctual. He did not disappoint us. His driving skills were great and I did not worry if we... more

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5 of 5 stars
Fiala   4 contributions
Kuala Lumpur
Sep 25, 2009
1
person found this review helpful

My friend living in Italy recommended that I must visit Sicily, especially Castelmola in my next trip to Italy. Sicily? The lawless island where rules play second fiddle to unwritten codes and respect is won through cunning and strong arm? Never mind the Mafia and their hair-raising stories. It’s the ubiquitous overloaded Vespas hurtling through the skinny cobbled alleyways, picking... more

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5 of 5 stars
JRMTR7   24 contributions
Lancaster, PA
Aug 27, 2009
2
people found this review helpful

We spent 4 days in Sicily and booked a tour through Sicily Life for each day, including the Godfather tour, Siracusa tour, Mount Etna tour with a cooking class and Messina Coastline tour. We also used Sicily Life for our transfer from the train to the hotel and from the hotel to the Catania airport. Our drivers/tour guides were the... more

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5 of 5 stars
El_Badgerino   35 contributions
London
Aug 12, 2009
4
people found this review helpful

There are at least 4 different tour companies taking people to Etna from Taormina alone, in the end we plumped for the cheapest (€27), mainly as we had no interest in the wine stops other tours offered & a visit to the Alacantra gorge was included (see seperate review). Spliting it into parts The tour company / guide - A... more

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5 of 5 stars
rosesteve   63 contributions
Maidstone, United Kingdom
Jul 25, 2009
1
person found this review helpful

We have recently returned from a cruise around Italy and one of our ports of call was Naxos in Sicily. We booked a tour with Sicily Life and our driver, Antonio, was waiting for us at the dock when we arrived. We spent a wonderful day with him, first driving up Mt Etna, enjoying the lovely scenery and views along... more

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5 of 5 stars
jbsn1   1 contribution
Jul 11, 2009
3
people found this review helpful

We loved Taormina. Christian of Sicily Limousines met us promptly in Messina. His English was easy for us to understand (much better than our Italian). He explained a lot about the area. We stopped at the village below Taormina to take some pics and then drove up to Castelmora 500m above the sea. The view was outstanding. Christian dropped us... more

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5 of 5 stars
micmor212   7 contributions
New York, NY
Jul 5, 2009
2
people found this review helpful

We used Sicily Limousine Service for all of our transfers in Sicily recently. (Catania to Toarmina; Toarmina to Milazzo; Messina to Catania.) Tiffany, the office manager, responded promptly to all inquiries and her quotes were reasonable - there were no surprises. Claudio was our driver on two occaisions; he met us with a sign with our name on it at... more

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5 of 5 stars
luvtaormina   2 contributions
luvtaormina
Jun 25, 2009
4
people found this review helpful

We could not imagine celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary anywhere else in the world but Taormina, Sicily. And who would help us arrange the renewal of our vows in a 1500 year old church... (with a priest who had the vows ready in English)... non other than Sebastiano from Sicily Life! Afterward, Sebastiano took us for a drive on the... more

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3 of 5 stars
lovetomatopasta   5 contributions
Sydney
Jun 24, 2009
3
people found this review helpful

We took the Mt Etna tour with Sicily Life in June. The guide was great, spoke fluent English and told us a lot of information about the mountain and the surroundings, took us to the honey and wine tasting as everyone has mentioned here. I don't know if I expected too much from reading other great reviews--- but I felt... more

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