The house is located between Taormina and Castelmola at a very steep road. From the already steep mainroad, you have to go down in Via Branco which is not completely paved. However with a small car and in dry conditions you will have no problem reaching it.
The house looks like being a part of a former hotel complex with 6 or 8 buildings. As usual in Sicilia everything is a little bit lapsed.
From the terrace you have a beautiful view over Taormina and the bay to the Italian mainland. The house is very spacious for four people. The third bed is a sleeping sofa in a very very small room.
From the house you can reach the center of Taormina in about 15 minutes walking. It is a steep and in some places poorly lit stairway downwards but you will get used to it very soon. Furthermore it is much faster than going the curvy road by car.
In the other direction, you can reach Castelmola in almost the same time. Of course, the stairway goes steeply upwards that way.
The house itself is fully equipped but especially in the kitchen some former guests were not very clean, so that you have several dishes which are too dirty to use.
Unfortunaltely, we had several problems during our stay. Giuseppe was very nice and welcomed us at the house showing us everything. However, at our second day the boiler for the heating broke down. We had several calls with Giuseppe to solve this issue even involving one of the neighbours as Giuseppe does not live in Taormina.
On the next day, the boiler was repaired but even then the house did not get warm enough. I assume we had about 16 – 17°C, although we used almost one gas bottle (40 €) per day. Giuseppe ordered a new boiler but it was not delivered during our stay. Besides, there was a problem with one of the toilettes. The flushing is weak and got blocked although we used it in a normal way. Guiseppe gave us instructions from Catania and we needed to repair it on our own. Additionally there was a bad smell out of the toilet in the room most of the time of our stay.
In my opition, the house is not suitable for renting in winter as it is isolated badly. Furthermore the broad window in the living room (almost 5 meter wide with a beautiful view) is not quite usefull for staying warm.
Nonetheless you might have a beautiful stay in summer. You should not expect German standards. Despite everything Giuseppe always tried to help via whats app and phone from Catania even when we were strugling to reach the airport on our day of departure as there was 20 centimetres of snow during the night before.