Francesca is a great host. She and her boyfriend met us on the day we checked in. Communication was clear, Francesca texted me the day before to organize the meet up. The flat is on the first floor of a typical town house (so quite steep steps to get to the floor) on the second line of houses from the sea, so unfortunately from the balcony you won't have a view of the sea but only of the trafficked road, also quite noisy at night, at least in August, or of the neighbours living in the building in front of the flat. There is AC in every room, this saved us since we were not able to sleep with the balcony open due to the noise, but ideally we would have slept without it since it's not the healthiest nor the most eco solution! The flat was exceptionally cleaned and Francesca made sure we found a bottle of wine in the fridge plus left some basics like coffee, salt, tea in the kitchen. There are two rooms, one facing the busy road and one on the inside part of the flat, a bathroom, a laundry room with a washing machine and a kitchen/dining area (something it misses is a couch in the kitchen/lounge where to chill instead of just sitting on the chairs). The town is 10 min bus ride from Taormina. The bus stop is a few meters from the flat and there is a bus roughly every 15 min at peak times. There is a small supermarket shop a few meters away and every morning a guy with a track selling fresh fruit and veg would stop in the street for a couple of hours, making buying fresh ingredients quite easy. The beach is literally on the other side of the house block, crossing two roads from the flat. It could be a nice beach, not too crowded, but as I mentioned to the host (not sure if it was because we were very unlucky) while we stayed there (10 days), it was quite dirty, both beach and sea with plastic floating around and cigarette buts everywhere. Something that should be mentioned for people arriving with a car and that we didn't know is that there are no free parking so be prepared to pay 10 euros a day for parking and the hassle of finding a spot at busy times like August. All in all I think this flat is not for everyone and I found it to be pricey for what it is but if you want a base for a couple of days to visit Taormina for example it can work.