PROS: The location is very nice, with terrific sea views. Great ability to shuttle to the sister property (Grand Hotel Timeo) and explore the Taormina city right from there, plus the gardens of Timeo...
PROS: The location is very nice, with terrific sea views. Great ability to shuttle to the sister property (Grand Hotel Timeo) and explore the Taormina city right from there, plus the gardens of Timeo itself. The staff was absolutely fantastic, anticipating our needs, very efficient when it should be like that, entertaining and chatty if you wish so, and always smiley and caring. The reception, the restaurant, the beach service, the house keeping - all doing phenomenal job..! We have been celebrating a birthday there, and so I go timely in touch with the hotel about much needed special arrangements.. Not only they did delivered everything as planned, but also managed to plug a couple of nice surprises there tooo - Bravo! The deluxe room we had was with spacious terrace overlooking the sea, really beautiful view..! The house keeping is out of this worlds, even for luxury hotels - they overlooks the rooms I think at least 3 times per day, with brush up, small perks & nice touches. The food in restaurant was excellent, we eaten dinners there all the nights, as well as lunch sometimes. Great wine list selection, also they have barbeque dinner on Sundays and we made arrangement for the Candlelit dinner on the beach which was absolutely spectacular, and the way it is setup and serviced, makes you really feel exclusive. Breakfasts are sumptuous, fresh food, a la cart choice in addition to buffet and a lot of sweet pastry. All at all - excellent property with charm, character and stunning service.
CONS: There are couple of things to note down, which may appears as drawbacks, derived from the matter of location and hotel's origin. The rooms are small. Our deluxe room was probably around 30m2 (excl terrace) and it feels tight even for just 2 small persons. With the price range of 1000eur+ per night, that's not a best deal overall. Next - there is only one pool, and in reality it is very-very small (looks bigger on pictures than it actually is). We got mosquitos in our room, even the door to the terrace was mostly closed and only open shortly. I haven't noticed the repellent or electronic mosquito blockers to address that, so we got a number of bites, unfortunately. The beach is nicely organized, but there is no cooling kit or water served by default, which was a big surprise to me (they do serve some ice-cream etc through the day, though). Lastly, the address given by the property, when entered into navigation, didn't lead me to the hotel at all, so had to stop and research myself.
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