Claudia’s house is a beautiful villa, worth it if you love to swim in the wonderful pool and have your breakfast and dinner outside in her beautiful garden. It is a very special place. Mohamed, the houskeeper, is very nice and helped us a lot.
The house is in the middle of downtown mascalucia, so it is extremely noisy by night due to the motorbikes in the area. But you can always close the windows and sleep with the airconditioning on, to avoid the noise.
Another thing to take into account is that the bathroom is downstairs and the bedroom upstairs, just in case you use it a lot by night.
Taormina is about 1 hour away from the house and siracusa is about 1 h 15 minutes, so the location is quite convenient if you want to do some tourism in the area. Catania airport is about 30 min away by car
The pool and the garden are both much better than the pictures. Wonderful if you travel with kids.