Sant'Alphio Garden Hotel & Spa

"We had a wonderful stay at this hotel! It's a nice, quiet place with a large pool that's perfect for relaxing. The location is very convenient, within walking distance to the sea, restaurants, grocery stores, and souvenir shops. I especially enjoyed the spa, had a treatment by therapist Loredana, which made my stay even more relaxing. Highly recommend!"

"Very nice grounds, pool area good, pity pool bar is rarely open. Lounge and bar area has been recently refurbished but impossible to be served. Dining room is HUGE and therefore staff have no time to be pleasant! Food selection and quality isn’t great. Breakfast has tinned fruit, cold broccoli and cold squares of spinach. Rooms are clean but basic, there is no kettle,"

"I booked this hotel on a EasyJet holiday before I saw the negative reviews and was thinking I’d made a mistake. How wrong I was - an excellent hotel. I just don’t get the negative comments. 1. Breakfast - a vast choice of continental items (no, they don’t have heavy cheeses at breakfast, it’s a light meal), if you want a full English then you go to England for it. There was very decent scrambled eggs, toast, breakfast sausages and onions, should you want it, as well as cold breakfast meats and cheese, salads items, hard boiled eggs, cereals, fruit, enormous range of pastries and sweet items, bread rolls, preserves, etc. what more could you possibly eat? Decent quality 2. Rooms - ours was spacious and clean. Ok so maybe more of a nod to 80s style, but nothing wrong with it. Very happy. 3. Grounds - very pretty, lovely pool, quiet and relaxing. 5. Staff - everyone was friendly and helpful 6. Location - on the edge of GN but walkable into town, plus restaurants, mini supermarkets, gift shops, in roads just meters from the hotel. Bussed into Taormina and Catania from the bus stop a 4 minute walk away."