Went between 20th and 27th October. This was a tourist holiday, we are a straight couple in early middle age. There were plenty of other age groups, older, young families and what appeared to be a gay couple, so the hotel is ideal for all ages and types and nationalities as there were Germans, Swiss, Americans and us from the UK.
This establishment is in a very nice clean, central area surrounded by tourist attractions, traditional Italian pizza/pasta/fish dish restaurants,shops and bars.
We had an apartment which was spacious and well appointed, I cannot speak for the rooms inside the hotel but they looked very clean.
Many of the other hotels further out of town, towards the bus and train stations are in far less pleasant surroundings than this one with tramps, beggars and ladies of the night dotted about.
If you get the train to Syracuse you will either need to skip breakfast that day or have a short trip to Syracuse; breakfast starts at 8 and the first train is also around then. The next train, which we took, was much later at 10:38 I think and we ended up going to Syracuse twice to get it all in. We went to Syracuse on the last two days; its split into a picturesque tourist island part and an area full of ampitheatres and catacombs and is worth two visits, but it would be possible to squeeze it into one day if taking the early train. One of the young ladies on the desk will make you up a food pack if you cannot make breakfast at 8am.
Good breakfast, big range.