Our stay at SOTTOCOPERTA was great! The room was very cute, spacious and comfortable. The breakfast included is phenominal and served on their beautiful rooftop terrace overlooking the sea, it's magical. The apartment is very close to the train station, although the address listed came up on Google maps as being 3km away (don't follow those instructions). Even though it is close to the train station we never were disturbed by loud trains. The apartment is not in Taormina or Giardini Naxos but is in the middle. The bus stop is right at the train station and very convenient with lots of buses back and forth to Giardini, Taormina, Isolla Bella and Letojanni. The only thing about the location was that it made it a little difficult to explore the towns the way we would like. We weren't able to explore, come back to relax at the hotel and then go out for dinner. You can obviously do that if you want to but paying 6€ per person a day for two trips up to Taormina seemed like too much money for our 4 day stay. Most restaurants in Taormina reopen for dinner at 7 or 7:30 pm. It was a fairly minor set back and didn't effect our overall happiness with staying there. Alessandra and her family are very welcoming and helpful at with travel arrangements and any suggestions for buses, restauranta, etc. We would reccomend staying here!!