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Advantages: Very comfortable beds Disadvantages: Location, Poor room service
I wondered where the taxi was taking me on my way from the airport to the hotel. The area seemed to get worse as we went on and I was really surprised when I saw the hotel. The entrance on the website looks very impressive, the reality is very different( see photo).
The location of the hotel wasn?t what I expected, and it seemed to be very run down and seedy, definitely not a tourist area. There were large open rubbish bins in the street, sometimes overflowing and surrounded by rubbish. Filthy pavements, when you could walk on them and they weren?t being used for parked cars. There were a few supermarkets, a bakery and a take away pizza place, but hardly any cafes nearby. There was traffic noise during the morning and evening rush hours.
There was a 10-15 minute walk to what I would term the normal tourist areas with shops, cafes ...
Advantages: Nice weird landsape, nice view to catania and to the main crater! Disadvantages: Risky because of the toxication possibility
As far that there is no adventurers review i have to write my experiance about my trip to Etna with my wife.
We were by can on the island Sicili and first we have seen was Ethna. It was about 30 degrees down, clima was turned on and we have seen huge black - absolutely black mountain with snow! I decided that we must visit it.
we have driven to the parking place above Catania, which is about 1900 meters high if i remember well. We paid cheap parking fee and wanted to go up. There is a transport from parking place - a cable car. It is a bit expensive - about 20 euro per person and since nobody was walking under the cable car i decided that it is not so bad option.
We were walking on the ski slope up. The surface was not an easy terrain since there are a bit large black stones. If you are walking you will be able to see old ...
Catania is the second major city in Sicily after Palermo.
There is a common say, that it is easier to do business in catania than Palermo. Although in my experience the 2 cities are very similar under this respect, I would not necessarily disagree with this statement.
An interesting place to visit is Castello di Ursino, (Ursino castle).
Located in Piazza Federico di Svevia, at the end of Via Auteri between Via Plebiscito and Via Garibaldi, it used to be a coastal fortress.
Later, vulcanic eruptions expanded the coastline, and if you go there, you can deem by yourself the extent of this expansion!
Another place worth visiting is the cathedral (Duomo), which goes back to 1090.
A word of caution for tourists, there are not too many restaurants in the centre of the town. If you have the time, try and go to Taormina ...
CICLISTALOCO 19.05.2001
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