We really enjoyed our stay at B&B U Palmentu in Taormina. Gabrielle and his father are welcoming and very gracious and accommadating hosts. The B&B is a little out of the main area of Taormina up in the hills by the castle with stunning views in all directions. Finding the Hotel: We walked from the bus station but recommend you catch the bus to 'Castelmola' for a couple of Euros and ask to be dropped off at the 'Via Madonna Rocca' bus stop. The B&B is 100m up the road from there on Via Madonna Rocca. Great stay in Taormina, recommended!

We really enjoyed our stay at B&B U Palmentu in Taormina. Gabrielle and his father are welcoming and very gracious and accommadating hosts. The B&B is a little out of the main area of Taormina up in the hills by the castle with stunning views in all directions.Finding the Hotel: We walked from the bus station but recommend you catch the bus to Castelmola for a couple of Euros and ask to be dropped off at the Via Madonna Rocca bus stop. The B&B is 100m up the road from there on Via Madonna Rocca.Great stay in Taormina, recommended!

We easily found street parking. It is a dead end street with a circle at the end to turn around in. There is only one restaurant nearby and we got a very good pizza there for dinner and ate it in our room, watching the sun set over Etna with a bottle of fine local wine. Each morning we walked down the mountain. There are 2 stairs, one scenic and fairly free of road crossings and the other more citified. I found recycling bins half-way down on the scenic path, so we brought our bottles with us to recycle. We visited Isla Bella, the Greek ruins, ate arancini and lots of granitas, usually lunching in town and having a light lunch with the beautiful view from the hotel. If you go outside the walls near the main bus station, there are some reasonable restaurants where the locals eat that serve what they call a "tourist menu". I negotiated grouper instead of the standard sword fish that is so pupular in Sicily. The last night we are at the aforementioned restaurant, shared an apetizer and shared a pasta. We each orderer a secondi. I had a wonderful fish. It was a really great meal.

The place was a short walk down to town with connecting bus services to centro, the train station and beach. The hosts were very nice and picked us up from the station and rooms were traditional with views overlooking the sea and Mt Etna

Although difficult to locate, B & B U Palmentu offered us a spectacular view of the northeast coast of Sicily. It was a good hike down to Taormina and more difficult to make the return climb. Breakfast was fair with only packaged pastries. However, we thoroughly enjoyed relaxing on the terrace.

- Views from outside the place are amazing. The rest is a disaster. When i arrived i noticed on the wall a paper that said that i could not pay by Credit card as Machine has been broken for 1 week. - Breakefast was a total disaster. The worst bfast i ever had in a hotel. We were offered just coffee, prepacked brioch you find in all supermarkets and artifical orange juice (powder +water). On the website you are promised home made cakes and fresh fruit smoothees. yeah right. - - we were unable to open the wooden exterior part of the window as funnily enough, the balcony was higher then the window therfore could not be opened . (on website u are promised a terrace with a view) yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. B&B is quite far from the centre so u still need to get there by car.