Andrea and Marion couldn’t have been more helpful if we needed it especially being in an area where not many people spoke English.
What we didn’t realise was that this is a campsite with small bungalows all very close together. There is a camping area directly behind the bungalows the other side of the train track which is all connected. The bungalow is very basic with just a hob and fridge. No kettle or oven so cooking was very limited. The amenities listed a washing machine a WiFi however neither of these are available in the bungalow. The washing machine is located on site and you have to pay 3.5 euros for each wash. The WiFi was very poor and you can only get it at the bar area and even then it dropped out regularly. Not a problem for me but my teenagers were not impressed.
The beach is across the road from the campsite and you have sun beds and parasol allocated to you but only two even if there are 4 of you which was a little bit of an issue for us.
The pool is nice however it is shared with the whole campsite. We went in low season so not too busy. What we were really upset to learn is that they expected you to wear swimming caps in the pool. This wasn’t advertised anywhere and put us off totally, for this reason we avoided the pool which was a shame.
The area is very quiet with just a few restaurants down the road. The pizzeria right next door to the campsite is amazing and we went multiple times.
Jacob from the scuba diving centre was a great source of information even on subjects not related to him.
This isn’t a great place if you want to explore the island as everything takes a long time to get to.
We flew in and out from Catania and it took nearly 3 hours to get to the campsite. To visit Etna was 2.5 hours away. To get a boat to the island Vulcano was over an hour away, so just be aware of this.
Checking out was a little issue for us as due to the distance to the airport we had to leave by 6am. Check out wasn’t open before 8am so we had to ask what to do. We were able to check out the night before which wasn’t a problem however when we woke up early to go all our electricity had been turned off so we were having to use bathrooms in the dark which I didn’t think was fair.
On the whole we had a nice relaxing holiday.