Hotel Villa Esperia

The staff were fantastic. Comfortable room and excellent location. Special thanks to Guiseppe for his friendly conversation and the young lady who arranged for my flowers to be brought up to the room on my partners birthday morning. Lovely atmosphere all round. Thank you all.

We have just returned from a lovely relaxing holiday here in Sicily. In all my years of travel I have never encountered a hotel where the staff offered such exceptional service. Nothing was too much trouble for them. As a family owned establishment, the atmosphere was relaxed and informal. Unfortunately I cant remember everyone's names, but Laura and Elisabeth in reception were particularly helpful. Elisabeth went out of her way to encourage us to practise our Italian. Her sunny personality was infectious! In terms of location, Taormina is just a short cable car ride away. The views from there were spectacular.

3.5 is the score that I really wanted to give, and this is why: The hotel is pleasant and functional as a base to explore the Taormina area and beyond being close to all amenities required. The cable car is 5 minutes away, the beach and sea the same. A quick note on the Cable Car, it is not the only method of travel to the main centre of Taormina, it is however quite easy and convenient and at €10 return not overly expensive, be warned that it can get very busy with each car well filled with hot sweating bodies...... 🥵 Would recommend on occasion the walk down from Taormina than the walk up! Back to the hotel: The staff are exceptionally friendly and helpful, always there to help and guide. The rooms are functional, air conditioned, clean with house keeping in each day to make the beds and replenish towels. The hot water supply can be intermittent at busy times, tip is to grab a shower early or embrace a wakening cooler shower 🚿. Breakfast is fine, there is something for everyone, be it sometimes unusual with the cooked breakfast serving up a selection of hot vegetables, my advice to the hotel is stick to the peppers, onions and zucchini rather than the broccoli and green beans. Scrambled eggs, sausage & bacon along with boiled eggs are available along with a wide variety of pasties, cakes and cheesecake! Cereals, yogurts,, cheese, ham, salad and fruit (would like some more choice of fruit) as well as plenty of different bread to toast or how you like it. Drinks are okay, unfortunately there is no fresh fruit juice, the diluted concentrate is not brilliant. Tea and coffee is fine. We didn't eat at the restaurant for anything else as there were plenty of lovely restaurants to choose in Taormina. The hotel pool is good. However, there is little shade as no parasols are available, could really do with some as it was very hot. So generally, the hotel makes a good base for which to set out and enjoy the beautiful surroundings of Isola Bella and Taormina.

This is a Lovely Family Run Hotel the breakfast is a lovely selection of cakes fruits cereals and teas coffee and fruit juices the Dinner menu varies each night if you have booked dinner. Lovely and Clean the Pool is lovely but no life guard on duty or any real marking to say depth and very worn 1 Meter Marker then the pool is very deep with no indication of the depth.

Hotel have a good position, 5 min walk to cable car and same to the beach. Rooms are like 3 stars. They sell 4 type of rooms but.. I booked a superior room and at reception they gave us a classic room, when I asked for room I booked they said the rooms are the same.. so.. don’t bother to pay for a superior bcs you get a clasic one.. pay clasic room and maybe you get a superior one.. rooms were clean.breakfast it’s Italian style.. some pasticeria, eggs, yoghurt,ham and cheese .. juice and coffe..nothing changes in our 4 days.

Professes to be a 4 star but absolutely not the case. First and foremost we arrived on 30th August for a 5 day trip, to find the pool was murky brown and closed for use. We were informed that there had been a storm the previous day and that they were hoping to have the pool sorted by the following day. Having picked the hotel specifically because it had a pool, and paying a premium accordingly, this was a real disappointment. We are now on the last day of our holiday and the pool is still out of use. On day 3 after paying €100 for four sun loungers on the beach we had to complain about the situation and were offered for the following day use of a pool and beach 2 miles down the road with a transfer. This was a very poor standard and it was not possible to lay by the pool, we tried to leave and couldn’t get a transfer so were stuck. Back to the Esperia, the staff have been friendly and it’s generally clean and tidy, the rooms are cleaned daily. There is no kettle in the room. Beds and pillows are hard. Bar is not managed, and reception have to track someone down to serve drinks. One evening we were offered beer, or nothing. Breakfast is pretty standard for this type of hotel. Overall had the pool been operational we would have been satisfied with our stay. Basic, and 2-3 stars max.