Very stylish and newly renovated apartment. I doubt you will find anything nicer in this small town. Wonderful exposed stone walls. Stylish lighting and decor. However, it is only made up of two rooms, a bedroom and sitting room. The sitting room is located on the second floor, but you have you walk up a spiral metal staircase. When you enter the apartment you enter bedroom, so you don't have to carry your luggage very far. There is no kitchen. There is no living room with a tv. So we only used the bedroom while there, which made it almost the same as staying in a hotel room. The bathroom is nice and large but only has a bathtub and no shower. There is a handheld shower nozzle but no shower curtain, so you have to be strategic when trying to take a shower.
The bed is large and firm and a pleasure to sleep in. The apartment has quiet and very effective AC, but it never turns off, even if you went the temperature is set to 27 C. It always blows out cold air. I simply got the room cold and then turned it off. Sometimes I turned it back on in the middle of the night.
The view outside the bedroom of the grotto is not visible because usually we had our bedroom window closed. It is used by other residents so unless you want to be on display, you don't get a chance to really enjoy it. It also means that there are people outside your bedroom window until later into the evening...around 12:30pm....So it is constantly noisy up to that time with people talking and children screaming. After that time it is very quiet. Earplugs are recommended if you are an early sleeper.
The beach next to the apartment is used by locals but we never used it. It is dirty with filth and trash and cigarette butts. The beach sand is more like grave and sand you find in a parking lot. If you want a beautiful beach, go to Cefalu, about an hour drive away. Warm water, clean beach sand, and good food.
Parking at this apartment is at a premium. We never were without, but we always tended to arrive home after 9pm and even at that time, the lot is mostly filled. During the day it is heavily used by other beach goes.