The Villa was beautiful and well equipped and our host was friendly and helpful and responsive and available when we needed her.
Our only issue with the villa is that it relies heavily on car use, to go to a supermarket, to go to a restaurant, to go to a beach, to go anywhere. The area is very residential. We have a toddler and walking to the beach was not viable as it was 1.5km and the narrow roads have no sidewalk and enough traffic to make it more of an ordeal than a walk. Having said that, the beach was a perfect stretch of sand in a calm and shallow bay that allowed both child play and adult swimming.
The drive to Ortigia/Siracusa is easy and takes about 10 minutes to the public carpark from where you can easily expore the rest of Ortigia on foot.