Lovely Hotel, family friendly especially those with children, there is loads of space, modern rooms, and the staff were ever so nice, I fully recommend it, but please take the car with you or hire one because the buses there are a disaster, sometimes they are on time, or else you are left waiting for ages anywhere you go in Catania transport is unbearable. To go to a couple of restaurants outside the hotel the road is pretty dangerous, it takes about 20 minutes and there are no pavements. But all in all I will surely come back with my husband and my son to this hotel in our car.

Stayed there 2 nights on a weekend. The hotel is one of the many barely legal buildings on the coast North of Catania - i.e. built closer to the seashore that the law allows - but fortunately the amount of concrete spread on such a beautiful coastline has not done the same damage as in other cases. It's basically a huge low-rise hotel designed for summer vacation and winter events: weddings, christenings, and communions. The entrance of the hotel is very bad indicated: if you come by car there's no sign at all and you have to press on a ringer with no sign on it, only to hear the staff surprised when you ask them if you're at the right place. The room is OK, very clean, quite big, hard-core lovers of '70s style would probably love the green furniture with pink bedsheets and the whole decoration. The hotel beach is a joke, as the hotel is actually by the sea but it's not a sand beach, it's a black rock coast. The breakfast was decent. The real problem with this hotel is the staff, who is probably the dumbest I've ever seen. When we arrived (by car, with luggage, and it was raining) we were told by the staff to park the car about 100m from the entrance to bring our stuff in and check in, only to discover that they could have directed us to an underground parking from where a lift (25m from the lot) directly goes up to the reception. We asked the staff why they didn't tell us and they answered that the lift only operates if they use their key (why???), obviously they could have come with us but they didn't think about it. We had an issue because the aircon was too cold and there is no remote, but even at a decent time of the day (6pm) the staff didn't even understand what we were talking about. I can't imagine how much more talented they would have been if I weren't Italian.

Wow! What a steal for the 50 euros a night! I booked on www.booking.com and stayed sep 2-6. This property doubles as a hotel for business travel, and families. The outside of the property does the inside NO justice. The room itself was very spacious AND seaview, heck all the rooms are seaview as the hotel is located literally right at the foot of the ocean! The bed was extremely comfortable. There is a great hotel located in the hotel and i believe breakfast was included with the price of our rooms (if not, i think it's 5-8 euros per day). the breakfast is wholesome (not just bread) and includes the works: eggs, prosciutto, fromagio, a variety of cereals, yogurts, fruits, bread, drinks, etc. something for everyone. There is a business center/internet, etc. Lastly, the staff was exceptionally friendly, tremendously helpful, professionall, spoke english and did everything to please the guest! I'm big on service and boy did they aim to please. There is a bus stop right outside of the hotel near the restaurant so this is excellent for traveling guests. Don't fret, the location of the hotel is situated such that you don't see the street or hear any noises so no worries about the noise polution caused by traffic. I liked the idea of bus stop because we were traveling all over it was extremely convenient. Overall, this was a full-service hotel for a fraction of the cost! Totally exceeded my expectations.

The property is located in Acitrezza which is about 20-25 minutes outside of Catania and is on the coast. It's a beautiful small town outside of Catania so u get the best of both worlds. There are tons of restaurants, bars, etc on the water so there's plenty to do in the evenings. It's really a lovely town and just 5 minutes from Acireale, 45 minutes from Taormina and about 1 hour from Siracusa. Since Catania was our Eastern Sicilian base for excursions (day trips) to Mount Etna, Taormina, Syracuse (southern region), staying at the Galetea in Acitrezza was very convenient (and CHEAP) to cover all those grounds. I don't remember if there was a spa or a gym because we went out everyday. The hotel is family friendly and business traveler friendly. Our room had a/c, TV, hair dryer and kitchenette style with fridge and stove top. The grounds and pool area were very pristine. Lots of chairs near the ocean area for relaxing, sunbathing and dipping in the ocean. Really lovely views.

To no fault of the hotel, I realized after the fact that I mistakenly booked at a cheaper rate on booking.com which meant that we didn't have maid service everyday but honestly it was fine because we were only there a couple of nights and because we had a room for 4 people (and it was only two of us), we just alternated beds and besides the hotel gave us fresh towels anyway so it's almost as those we had maid service. It was really no big deal because we're not slobs but we saved 30 euros per night so that made it that much better!! If you want maid service it's extra and just make sure you carefully read what you book. Overall, I quickly came to realize that Sicily is an "a la carte" island so I got used to it.

I found the staff very friendly and very helpfull,the room was very nice,but there was nothing to make a cup of tea/coffee which I found odd.But once I said that to the staff they asked if I wanted to move to a studo which evreything I needed ,So happy days.