We had a lovely time at the apartment. The hill is steep but it was good exercise after pizza and tiramisu! The peace of the surroundings is lovely. So quiet. The view is breath-taking. I would recommend this apartment and Taormina.
A word of warning for other visitors.....nothing to do with the apartment but with regard to the small takeaway at the top of the hill in the next road by the wine shop. The takeaway is called Sicilialate (or something very similar). It has a red and yellow front and certificates for their Sommelier on the wall at the front left of the shop front. We visited one night on our way back from having a lovely evening in the town. We thought it would be nice to have a couple of bottles of wine and some stuffed olives. We made our purchase ( two bottles of basic wine and seven olives), for which they charged 51 euros. It was only when we wandered down the road that I commented to my husband that the charge could not possibly be correct. We went back to find them still in fits of laughter at having potentially got away with ripping us off. We queried the charge and they gave our money back. We had such a lovely time during our stay but this kind of behaviour is very sad. The server had an American accent and did not own the shop. How awful for the owner that s/he has staff like this.
We would go back to this apartment again. All in all we had a super time.