just back from week long stay in hotel da peppe in leto jenni, sicily. flight was with crystal sun, delayed 2 hours, arrived 10pm in catania. was met by the most annoying tour guide in the world. talked non stop about nothing for full hour in very bad english till we got to leto jenni.
arrived in hotel da peppe at 10pm tired and hungry, was expecting beautiful hotel with gorgeous sea views as per crystal sun website. hotel is def not what we were expecting. The hotel fronts onto the noisest street in the world!!! All you hear 24 hours a day is scooters, bikes and cars flying up the road and beeping their bloody horns at absolutely nothing evey 5 seconds!!!!. Our room was facing directly onto this street our beautiful sea view was a wall!!!
decided to go down next morning to reception to complain, might as well have complained to a cat. The beautiful Carmen did not give a toss she throw her eyes to heaven when we asked about our sea view and muttered something.
staff dont care and nobody and i mean nobody in Sicily has a single word of english . If your going better bring a translator.
in fairness the hotel is tastefully decorated its pretty big with loads of seating but it is always empty. The tiny bar is never open and there is no atmosphere either so bit crap really,
back of hotel leads out to the beach front and it is at the back of the hotel where the beatiful sea views are.
If you just book a hotel room with this agency/hotel i would check with 100% certainy that you are getting a room at the rear of teh hotel fronting completely onto the the beach front otherwise you will be staring at a wall for a week! (Not kidding)
Breakfast is 8am to 10am. not worth getting up for all they serve is bread rolls and warm ham maybe a few olives if your lucky.
The main man peppe (beard) floats around teh hotel you cant miss him he has "works of art" of him self alll ove rthe place.
he has a restaurant on beach and to be honest it wasnt great had gypsy steak still can feel it repeating on me.!
Its more of a apartment complex than a hotel the bed lined is never changed a lady comes in every day and makes the bed but doesnt clean the room or change the bed linen. the staff especially C are rude and unhelpful
biggest gripe though is the noise from the the scooters and bikes tearing around the place. BRING EAR PLUGS!!!!!.
COST 1020 EURO FOR 2 FOR THE WEEK. not worth it
oh and the flight was delayed by 3 hrs on way back!