Hotel Villa Ducale

A truly wonderful hotel experience. Very helpful and hospitable staff, with great recommendations and assistance with reservations. Such a beautiful location, and quite peaceful.

We spent 3 nights in this hotel and booked a classic and deluxe room, the latter of which was upgraded to a design luxury suite. Staff was very friendly and we appreciated the well served welcome drink. The suite had a nice view on the strait of messina and a comfortable bathroom with huge shower. The classic room for our daughters was rather small but had a very large terrace area with sunbeds and a view on the Etna. The existing pool is rather small but very soon (still in August we were told) they will open an additional inviting infinity pool which will offer a much nicer view too as they are expanding the hotel with additiinal rooms. A pity it was not open yet when we arrived! It is the sister hotel of downtown villa Carlotta (same owners). Main difference is the location as Ducale is situated much higher offering a great view on the city. There is a staircase road from the Santa madonna dell rocca church nearby which takes you to the center of Taormina in less than ten minutes. The shuttle service from the hotel every hour of the day till 22:30 is a welcome service as taking the uphill road back to the hotel is a bit of an exercise in the heat but in the end we did it a couple of times as we enjoyed a small work-out. (The road is featured in the White Lotus filmed in Taormina when one of the guests goes for a morning run). Breakfast is served on the terrace with views on Mount Etna. Oh and the nearby Sarracena restaurant offers great food and views on the city at night! Overall we have very good memories of this hotel!

We as a Brazilian family considered an awesome hospitality. We had lovable days. Max and the breakfast team made us proud everyday. Thanks a lot.

We had a fantastic stay at this hotel. We had a room (design suite) which overlooked the bay and it was really quiet with absolutely stunning views. We used the hotel shuttle to get in to town every day and this was a really easy process using their WhatsApp messaging system . All of the staff were extremely polite, friendly and helpful . They expertly arranged for us to go up in a helicopter over Etna - even arranging a taxi to take us there. It was seamless service. They also booked a taxi to nearby Castelmola which was a beautiful place for a couple of hours to have lunch and a stroll. The breakfast every day was really good. A lovely selection of fruits yoghurt, pastries, salmon, some hot meat and eggs etc. The view from the hotel over Mount Etna is absolutely perfect. We would definitely stay at this hotel again!

This is a magical place we drove from Catania to Taormina and getting up to the hotel was so exciting. We will welcome by a team of very caring people went through all of the amenities with us breakfast with served every day with lovely waiters and waitresses. There is a community area that you can sit down and have a cocktail at and look out at the Mediterranean. Housekeeping was wonderful as was old is that I highly recommend this hotel. The rooms were extremely spacious looting the bathroom the water pressure was outstanding which is unusual in my experience. Again I recommend this place very highly