Hotel Caparena

The hotel is in a lovely location, right on the beach and there are some great little authentic local restaurants nearby if you are willing to walk a little way. Having the hotel beach area was really nice and it was super quiet when we were there which made it v relatxing. Its relatively easy to drive to Taormina town from the hotel and they do provide a bus which we didn't use but we did see other guests use to get there in the evenings.

They have obviously but quite a lot of effort in recently to refurbish the hotel and to modernise it but it doesn't quite meet your expectations when you arrive based on the website etc. We were hoping for a little bit of luxury but this isn't really what you get, especially in terms of the quality of the rooms. They were very clean but lack finishing touches (looked like some furniture was missing in ours!) and the quality of the finish wasn't great. We did pay extra have a sea view but we also looked out onto a railway line which has trains going passed all day and there was no indication of this in any of the information we read. Some of the staff were also a little grumpy with us and didn't seem that welcoming to younger guests.