We decided to stay here as its outside of taormina so not quite as busy, and the apartment looked good on the pictures. There are buses running regularly between castelmola and taormina or you can walk on the footpaths in around an hour between the two. The apartment was quite good in all areas, it's clean has all the amenities you would need and Adriana met us there and left us some pasta and salsa too which was nice. There is a restaurant right next door as well as several other places to eat in little walking distance as castelmola is quite small. One last thing is the views from around castelmola are beautifal, you can see out for miles and see Mount etna too if the weather is good. We would definitely stay here again.