Beautiful house in a gated community with a pool, 5 minute walk from a beautiful not crowded pebble beach with water clear as ice. From the rooftop terrace beautiful view of Etna. Everyone was really kind. There was one American who was really salty and started a physical fight with an italian family because he was in a hurry and couldn’t get past a car they parked while they were loading out. Americans right? Anyways we had a really great stay. They don’t speak a lot of english however so get your translation app nearby. If you come in the summer. Keep in mind that the airconditioning is in the living room and that it might take a few days to reach the bedroom. The sleeping couch was big enough for 2 persons and was right underneath the airco. If you plan to stay with 4, just take turns like we did or play rock paper scissors.
Restaurant Mare Kambo is 20 minutes (ish) away from the apartment, it’s classy with decent food and really kind waiters. The daughter of the owner went through a lot of trouble trying to help us get a cab to the supermarket. She ended up driving us to the lidl ourselves. Shoutout to daniella and toufik (our waiter)
I’d recommend you to hire a car. There is a car rental company in a village nearby. We got a car that had been through some rough times but for poor students like us it was perfect. We paid an extremely low price, didn’t have to pay a young driver comission and for 30 euros extra they allowed us to leave it at the airport (a taxi would have cost us around 100euros)
Overal great apartment, lovely area with beautiful views. 10/10 would recommend.