My girlfriend and i stayed here for a week in the deluxe room with our own jacuzzi. Elena was an excellent host, who made every effort to make us feel welcome, offer advice for local restaurants and was a pleasure to deal with. The property is a short 5 minute walk from the riposto train station, which can take you north to taormina (20mins) or south to Syracuse in 90 mins. Its within a short distance of a local supermarket for supplies too. We enjoyed the swimming pool when we were in the property or used it as a base to explore the east coast of Sicily. We'd recommend a trip up mount etna, which you can organise from a catania city pick up. In terms of night time activities in riposto, my girlfriend and i found a number of very nice and reasonably priced restaurants for dinner and bars too for drinks. still very much Italian with few tourists other than ourselves, which we really enjoyed. overall we found Elena's property to be beautiful and the location to be a good location for futher exploration. we'd highly recommend it to anyone