Vulcano Cheap Vacations

Great hotel, parking IS NOT INCLUDED

Perfect location. The views are amazing and we love the restaurant outside with the perfect view. The hotel itself is very nice. Only thing is the shower floors are super slippery. I have never had an issue before with a shower floor being this slippery. I almost fell several times. They really need to come up with solution for this before somebody really gets hurt.

Great plasce to stay. The staff is amazing. We had a very small room. That we didnt like! But over all a really nice hotel!

The staff was very friendly. Checking in was wonderful. I really liked the woman at reception. The hotel was clean and modern inside, the room was a nice size. They even had a small kitchen, But! If you plan on ACTUALLY sleeping, this is NOT the hotel for you. If you want to go out late and eat and drink, it’s perfect and the location is great! Otherwise, the noise outside went on until past 3-4 am right outside the window. Even after the bars closed. Then the garbage trucks started. At some point, I opened my phone and tried white noise, brown noise, rain even the inside of a train sounds for noise canceling, nothing worked. I went into my luggage and found a small portable speaker to amplify it. It still wasn’t loud enough. I moved it around the room closest to the noise, then closest to my pillow, There was yelling and horns and loud music. It was unbearable at some point. Desperate to sleep, as I had been traveling, I found two cereal bowls in the cupboard and tried to make a small speaker amplifier putting my small speaker inside one and out the other bowl partially tilted on top with an opening facing me to magnify sound. I thought I was staying near the airport for an early flight, I didn’t know I was signing up for an on the spot engineering class. I got MAYBE an hours sleep in. But if you want to stay in the middle of town, and don’t care about sleeping at all and having the town at your doorstep this is the place for you!

Hotel had everything we needed. Clean and comfortable. Friendly staff. Short walk to the town for a good selection of restaurants in the evenings. Good breakfast selection at the hotel in the morning.

Beautiful balcony with garden view and we could also see Castelmola! Configuration of the room wasn't the greatest. There was no space to put our second luggage but we made it work. Shower had neon florescent lighting which was different. Also, didn't really care for the shower curtain, for an upscale hotel would think there would be a glass shower door. Loved the location, walk down the stairs and you arrive at the Duomo!

We enjoyed Donna Carmela so much we extended our stay by 2 days. All staff were gracious and helpful. We loved the sumptuous breakfast, gourmet restaurant for dinner, as well as the lounge and pool bars. After a day of sightseeing around Mt Etna and Taormina, we came back to the oasis of this lovely resort.