Extraordinary decor, totally out of step with its neighbours. I wasn't very sure when we first went in but the welcome was first class from the man who showed us where the car park was to the lovely chap who coached me on how to say our room number in Italian.

I was slightly disappointed that breaksfast was served in the bowels of the hotel and not in the lovely dining room with its sea views.

Our room was clean and spacious, the balcony accommodate 2 chairs with room to spare and the location is tip top, a stone's thow from the old town and over the road from the beach.

We turned up in Cefalu looking for somewhere to stay and relax following a busy week touring Sicily, in late October. Having called in at various hotels in town, we decided on a double room at the front of the Rive del Sole, over-looking the beach, offered to us at an excellent rate with free parking. Despite being at the front of the hotel, the road traffic was not a problem and we fell asleep each night to the sound of the sea. The hotel is impecabbly clean, comfortable, well-run and has a team of helpful staff. Cefalu is charming and a nice contrast to some of the down-trodden places we had seen on our travels, and we enjoyed our stay immensely.

A hotel that has invested lots and lots of money into good quality, over the top, classic decor that you’d expect to find in a luxury 5 star hotel in the Middle East. A bit of a misfit in a charming old town of humble origins with the remains of an atmosphere of a fishing village. If you like modern, contemporary design décor, you’ll feel out of place in this hotel. If you are into Zen atmosphere/design, don’t stay here. This is, above all, just a matter of personal taste and our random choice to stay in the hotel was not to evaluate its design/décor. All we needed was a comfortable place to sleep for one night on our way back to Palermo. We were allocated, at a correct price, a very big pleasant room with lots of space, excellent bathroom, giant size bed and all other comforts which more than met our needs. I have read in other reports that the air-conditioning goes off during the night. Although it was October, we needed the air-conditioning to sleep as the window had to be closed. At about 3am the room was too hot for sleeping and we had to spend the rest of the night with the window open to cool the room down. Although the fan was working, I think the cooling unit had been switched off however, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Why should a hotel offering an atmosphere of such grand splendour have to make minimal savings on energy costs during the night ? We had advised of our departure at 6.30am for an early morning train and didn’t expect breakfast or any other service but the night porter insisted on making us a cappuccino to get us started for our trip to Palermo; it was well appreciated and a kind gesture. Would we stay here again? If we had no other choice, we’d be happy to do so.

drove in to town and picked hotel based on location and frommers description and tp s aas well..clean spacious romes friendly accomadating staff huge breakfast that i hated to leave wide spacious public areas big rooms with plenty of closet space nice bathroom ..got ocean view easy parking discounted on a very nice beach and best of all it was an easy walk to the meevil section of town...i definitley plan to return here for a longer stay ...great beach venue....hope tnot too many americanos find out about this mediterranian gem