Mary's dad Vincenzo met us at the apartment. The apartment was in a great location with a large terrace overlooking the sea. Unfortunately it rained the three days we were there. The cable car was not working so we had to wait for buses that ran every half hour. They were packed most of the time. Our power cut out twice and we had no hot water on one occasion. Luckily, Vincenzo lives in the apartment above and quickly reconnected the power and hot water. His wife lent us umbrellas which we greatly appreciated. The apartment is walking distance to the main strip of shops and also walking distance to the Taormina bus terminal. It was such a shame we had bad weather!