Our stay at Pino’s villa was excellent. The rolling green gardens, overlooking the beautiful large pool (I’d estimate 18m long!), with a hammock and a bocce set up outside really made for a great time with friends. The immaculately kept gardens were my highlight.
There are several seating areas, great for socialising. There’s also a beautiful old grand piano upstairs - which we had a play on for the first time in years!
The villa is spacious but still intimate. It has all amenities you need for cooking. We never made use of the outdoor pizza oven, but had we more time, we definitely would recommend it.
Viviana was very kind at check in, walking us through each part of the villa. Everything is provided too (right down mosquito spray and a first aid kit!).
We were celebrating our honeymoon and Pino very kindly organised a welcome package (with one of Etnamar’s own wines - which was delicious), and a beautiful bottle of sparkling wine as a wedding present.
The views were stunning- on one side, Etna, and on the other side, the ocean.
Pino and Viviana were very responsive should we need anything, they also reached out several times before our stay to see if there was anything they could help with.
We travelled a lot to local towns - Syracuse, Taormina, Catania - so we didn’t have as much time in the villa as we would have liked. I’d really recommend spending a full day just lounging around and enjoying the beautiful space.
The sheets, towels etc are good quality. The air conditioning worked very well.
I would say that this villa is definitely more suited to 7 guests than 8 (the last bed is a rollout bed in one of the queen bed rooms). We had 7 guests so this suited us well.
Overall, we had an excellent stay - we would recommend! Thank you, Pino!