Our stay at Villa Pittaneri was wonderful!
Maurizio was great with responding to any questions, and having a relatively flexible check-in and check-out time was perfect for us too - we didn’t have to worry about lingering around in the hot sun!!
The villa itself is fitted with very welcome air-con upstairs and downstairs and the bathroom facilities were particularly good - the shower is huge! Great value for money.
The pool facilities were just what we needed with the heat and it was all lovely a clean too. Even though the villa is situated on a busy road leading into the centre of Catania, this can’t be heard from inside the villa which was perfect!
If you want to venture to the beaches or into the town centre, we found the buses to be totally unreliable and the walk (down a busy road and steep hill!) took up to 45 minutes, which is not ideal in the heat! However, we discovered FreeNow (a taxi service app a bit like Uber) which was JUST what we needed to go into the centre for dinner or to the beach for a day - it costed anyway between €10-20.
Overall, our stay was wonderful and we felt super safe and catered for. We even received a complimentary bottle of wine on arrival too - yay!