This is a fancy hotel with a very reasonable price. The white lotus experience :-) if you can’t afford the San Domenico in Taormina. Wonderful rooms with view on the sea, great breakfast, nice pool, beautiful and restful place with view on mount Etna

This hotel exceeded our expectations in every aspect. We stayed 7 nights. We stayed in the separate building down by the cherry trees. Surrounded by olive, orange, lemon and grapefruit trees around the property, our room backed out onto a grass lawn with the most beautiful views of the snow peaked mount etna. The room is fantastic, with a mini bar, a sofa, kettle with tea and coffee and an extremely comfortable king size bed. Our bed was made daily, pillows were amazing and bedding all of very high quality, which seems to be an area many hotels seem to skimp on these days... so very pleasantly surprised! There is a Michelin Star restaurant up the road, in which we ate, and was nice, but I would better recommend Tale kitchen. That may sound an exaggeration, but the chef at Tale is fantastic and the food was superb. The menu changes according to season but would recommend especially the gnocchi (best we have ever tasted). During our stay we ate every item on the menu, and were never once disappointed. The staff are fantastic. We arrived extremely early in the morning and were given access to our room immediately, no questions asked. We were offered a free upgrade, though we still opted to stay in the room we booked, never the less the gesture was generous and greatly appreciated. On checkout, we were told to vacate the room whenever we were ready, absolutely no stress what so ever. Breakfast was a similar experience. Fantastic spread, and we always arrived late, later than breakfast was supposed to go on for, but never a problem. The hotel itself is a design hotel, with beautiful design everywhere you look. It is a pleasure to behold, and on more than one occasion we would just wander around and appreciate the details, design, architecture, view and terrain. This area of Sicily is gorgeous. The towns up further up the mountain are filled with great rustic restaurants, wine bars and vineyards, as well as traditional cheese and salami shops. Top marks in all areas. After all said and done, the price was fantastic too, massive value for money.

Lovely new hotel, very contemporary & comfortable. Our mountain view room didn't quite have a mountain view but there are stunning views of the sea and Etna from all around the hotel. We had limited time, so spoke to Gloria beforehand and she booked us a guide for Etna on the morning of our arrival. Excellent tour of the previous eruptions & lava fields. As for the restaurant, the food was excellent - refined, well thought out dishes. We had the tasting menu & every course was delicious. The maitre' d was attentive & knowledgeable about the food & wine. Best meal during our trip to Sicily.