Fantastic location, allowing teams, families, and other groups of people spending happy hours together, while allowing enough privacy in the properly equipped bedrooms, all with separate shower and WC. From one side of the property, you wake up seeing the sunrise from the sea over the swimming pool, while on the other side you can see Mount Etna. She had a couple of paroxysms during our stay, a life time great experience and memory for all of us. During the night, we were watching from the swimming pool area the lava slowly flowing down on the slopes not too far from us. The main kitchen and the central areas are very well equipped, good quality, and clean, we had great fun there, too.
The location is remote from city centers that is a big advantage, however, without a rented car, would be very difficult to manage anything from there. Those who want to explore Eastern Sicily, would anyway need a car, and because of the location is relatively central, one can easily go to North-East and South-East from the villa, while Mount Etna region is very close towards the center of the island. As the villa's street address is not on digitized maps, most car navigation systems would fail, therefore use the GPS coordinates instead of the street address and you will be fine. This is what we had been doing from day 2 and had no issues to find the way back.
Marco is a great guy and good host. He took us to a winery of his friends, had the best local wines and food tasted, unlimited for 3 EUR / person and could buy the best local wines for 1,7 EUR /liter taking away that you pay for 10-15 EUR a .75 bottle in a restaurant. Marco also volunteered to spend half a day with us (for free) and as a local patriot, showing us around in Catania for hours, combined with a local gastro-tour, tasting local specialties even at places where not many tourists would go, providing us with a good local flavor of Catania.
As we arrived late night, requested Marco in advance to organize a bit of pre-ordered food supply in the house. He and Giuseppe (the owner) made a very good job and we had a good dinner and breakfast in the following morning. On top of all, when one of our team members had a dental emergency, Giuseppe booked an urgent appointment to his own dentist in Catania, where my friend got a good quality medical service and help, finally not even charged to us!
All in all, this is a superb location, combined with superb support. We can only say thank you to Marco, our guide and host, and Giuseppe the property owner.
It was a very good late Spring vacation in Sicily!