Highly recommended if you are driving. This is a great base for visiting the towns around the foot of Etna and for Etna itself. And it's only a short drive to Catania if you want the big city during the day and calm at night. It's a bit outside of Paterno so best to arrive in the daylight. Parking is great, trouble free, which is something that can't be said inside the cities. The food is some of the best you'll get in Sicily, fresh and plentiful and delicious. Best of all....the host. Francesco and Angela are the most wonderful people you'll meet. Would go back in a heartbeat!