Andrea made us feel very welcomed, he speaks good English. He met me and my daughter at the bus stop and he helped me with suitcase. He arranged an Oxelo two wheel scooter which my daughter could use during our stay.
Flat was VERY clean, we had bowl of big and delicious oranges left for us. There also was some water in the fridge. Kitchen is equipped with few pots and pans for basic meal preparation. What I missed was a proper chef's chopping knife. There is salt, sugar and coffee left for guests plus 2 small italian coffee makers. Pepper, cooking oil was unfortunately not available as advertised in the listing. I recommend bringing your own cooking spices if you plan doing self catering, they are quite expensive in the shop downstairs. Tap water is not so good over there so I advise buying bottled water. I recommend buying bread from La Patrizia, just near bus stop. There are many restaurants near the Panorama, lots of gelato places, all located by the road facing sea. The beach in front is sandy in most of places, but lots of pebbles to be found in some places as well. It is very small stretch of sand so you cannot enjoy long walks. There are many lidos where you can hire parasol and lay down. Water in the sea is super clear.
We had really comfortable bed, but if you are bothered with noise when you are trying to fall asleep you can hear tv sound through the walls.
Bathroom is very modern, but we were left with just one toilet roll for the week.
Flat is located near busy road, it has great view over the sea, Taormina and Castelmola. It is really worth to wake up in the morning for the sunrise. Amazing colours in the sky!
There are many parking spaces near the flat, but full almost all the time. I would not recommend arriving there by car. The traffic in this small town is a problem, really bothered me, it was too much in the evenings and weekend. It gets especially busy near Taormina Giardini train station where we got stuck few times on the bus from Taormina. You can walk to Taormina but as you approach station, there is no pavement for pedestrians at all, so it is quite dangerous walking so close to moving cars.
So I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because few things were missing, and we were not told about 7euro tourist tax straight away, only after finalising booking. And Giardini disappointed me as a location a bit, too cramped for me and lack of walking spaces, not much to do except eating out. But PANORAMA is perfect location if you only need it for sleep or you want to have day trip to Taormina, Castelmola (both amazing with great sea and volcano view,but busy with tourists). Bus stop at Via Dalmazia is located behind the flat, few minutes walk down the path, you can take bus to Taormina for 3 euro pp round way. Buses are frequent but full of tourists in April already.