Hotel Mediterranee

The location of the hotel is excellent. All staff including the Manager/ Owner was extremely helpful. The best part was our room had an amazing view from the balcony that was breathtaking.

Two things that we did not like are 1) the Bathroom really needs improvement to todays modern standards. The shower stall is probably 18"x18" with water flow issues and the bidet is one that no one uses these days. However it is clean. 2) the breakfast needs some improvements. There no hot food available except tea and coffee! The quality of food also needs to be reviewed.

It had an amazing deck off our room with a fantastic view. We were so very happy. The staff was so helpful. The breakfast was varied and excellent. The deck where you could enjoy your breakfast also has an amazing view like our room of the sea, Mount Etna, and the beauty all around us. Excellent location. This is where I will stay the next time I go to Taormina. I keep going back to Taormina because I love it so much.

The hotel was over a number of levels with amazing views to the sea and to Mount Etna (and a lift!). The swimming pool on the top terrace was in a lovely garden setting with great views also and the terrace on the first floor where you could have breakfast was lovely. The hotel was very clean and the staff very attentive, helpful and friendly. Very well run, professional and organised. The return shuttle for 6 euros from the hotel to their sister hotel by the beach with sunbeds and umbrellas was a really good option to have. It was a good location as at edge of old town, so easy to walk into town but felt like you had got away from it all when back at the hotel. Bus stop right outside to go upto the lovely village at the top of the hill behind hotel. We had standard rooms but they had a sea view or a view of Etna which was unexpected.

There isn't much insulation between the rooms horizontally in the floors, so you can hear people in the room above, people walking round, moving furniture and in the bathroom, toilets flushing, water being run - it depends on the people in the room above, as when swapped rooms it wasn't as bad at all, so just unlucky with the people above in the first room, although the bathroom noise was the same.