This hotel is very good. Staff are friendly and very helpful. Rooms are spacious and comfortable and everywhere is very clean. Drawbacks are the lack of restaurant and bar facilities and the distance from Taormina. The journey in the cable car into town is expensive at €3 per person per journey - €12 return for two people. The restaurants close to the hotel are not great so travelling into town is necessary to get to the better restaurants. On the other hand the beach is across the road so if being close to the beach is important then this hotel would be perfect.

We stayed here for five nights in September. Wonderful hotel! The staff are fantastic, nothing is too much trouble, very friendly. The rooms are a good size, with amazing views over the sea. Very clean. Very close to the cable car that takes you up to the town. Hope to return!

Great location for walking to the beach, Isola Bella island, the funicular. This hotel is not in the center of Taormina but down by the beach. A lot quieter from the mob of tourists that you find in the upper reaches of the town. The staff was extremely helpful and spoke great english! With our window open at night it was noisy from the delivery trucks on the road below us. Windows closed , it was quiet. The bar and restaurant was excellent and so much food to choose from!!

This is a truly fantastic place !!! The location is amazing facing Isola Bella, a tiny island in the Taormina bay. Access to Taormina is quite easy through the cable car, 200 meters away from the hotel (actually quite expensive at 3 EUR per person one way !!). The beach can be reached via - steep - stairs across the road. We preferred to stay at the pool on the 5th floor overlooking the sea. Very quiet and relaxing despite the main road and the railway below. Staff is extremely professional, courteous and diligent. Actually, when we were told that the very afternoon we leave the property would close for extension / renovation for 4 months we could hardly believe it as hotel services and service quality were not impacted at all by this situation. Rooms are spacious, modern and well equipped, most - if not - all of them with a balcony. Breakfast - abundant and with a broad selection of pastries, breads and marmalades - is served on the 4th floor on a large terrace facing the sea. At 130 EUR per night the Panoramic Hotel is an incredible value option !!