We have just stayed at this villa for a week, with family joining up from around the world. The villa is a splendid place with many areas we hardly used between the downstairs 2 double bedrooms connecting via an upward staircase to the kitchen/dining/living area leading onto the terraces.
The upstairs 3 bedrooms (via stairs down, along a way, then up stairs the other end of the house) have very low ceilings, which our son learned to avoid eventually.
You need a car here! The walk down a very steep, littered street, past the metro station, and on down to the nearest supermarket is not for the faint-hearted. The return journey with shopping is brutal! We took an empty childs’ buggy to help us. 6 packs of water, wine and food weighs in heavily for a hot up hill stretch.
Once in the gated gardens, the pool and terraces were delightful, and the place is classically furnished. The recycling/rubbish collection is very complicated…..probably need more info and more bins to comply with the necessary waste collections (and only info was in Italian). (This may well explain the litter/rubbish everywhere in the streets.
One son hired a scooter for a few days to go to and from shops when needed. The nearby Metro (down steep hill) allows travel into the city, or to the train station, with connections to Syracuse/Taormina and other destinations.