We stayed for one week in Zingaro hotel and enjoyed our holiday. The hotel is small, has nice rooms (we had a quiet room to the garden) and a friendly staff. It is located in a quiet part of the town and it takes 5 - 10 min to walk to the beach.

We stayed for a week here in May, so off-peak. They do 7 nights for the price of 6 which suited us as we were staying for 7 nights as Ryanair only fly to/from Dublin on Sundays.

The hotel is relatively small and is a five minute walk from the beach on a road at the back of the town. This wasn't really an issue as the town is so small, even with a pushchair.

The room was spotlessly clean and decently furnished. It was pretty typical as a hotel room - air conditioning, small TV, small fridge. It certainly wasn't boutique or flash, but was perfectly comfortable. Rooms overlook the street, with balconies, or the interior courtyard. The sea is visible over rooftops from the street-facing rooms. Bathroom was also spotlessly clean with decent supplies of towels and products. One reviewer complained of a lack of hot water, but I found you just needed to run the shower for a while sometimes.

There is a hot tub on the flat roof, which also has loungers. But the beach in San Vito Lo Capo, and the beaches in the Zingaro nature reserve that the hotel is named after are so good you won't want to sit around on a roof. The hot tub didn't seem to be working in May - possibly due to the fact there were only two families staying in the hotel.

Breakfast is served in the dining room, which also serves dinner, though we didn't eat there in the evenings. Breakfast was fruit, cakes and sweet pastries and coffee made to order. Coffee and cake were great.

The service was very friendly and helpful - seemingly a family-run place. The girl who manned the desk on the one night it rained gave us their family umbrella which I thought was excellent service. Incidentally though, they don't have an iron or ironing board.

It may have been because the hotel wasn't busy, but our room was cleaned scrupulously daily. Some people might have an issue with it, but our clothes were unpacked and everything was neatly put away. With a small child ramsacking the room each day, this was fantastic.

San Vito lo Capo itself is wonderful - I would happily recommend it in May which is still quiet enough. July and August are a different story by all accounts, and I wouldn't go in these months as the place is overrun by Italians and prices ascend accordingly.

We have just returned from a fabulous holiday in San Vito. We were really impressed with the standard of the hotel and really loved the town. This is a gem and I would highly recommend it. We had two young children with us and for this the rooms are a bit tight but bearable. The beach is just stunning anf kept the kids amused all week.

We went on a last minute trip to Sicily this october. I put a question up on the forum for sicily and the resident expert ,Vagabonda (who couldn't have been more helpful!), suggested we go to San Vito lo Capo and recommended the Zingaro Hotel. It was fantastic. The price was €70 for a twin room and breakfast for two-but this was because we went very low season. The hotel itself is exactly as it appears on the website and is clean and airy. We had a balcony and it was facing towards the sea-which one could just about see! the hotel is only about 5 minute walk from the stunning beach and 5 minutes (if even that)from the centre of everything.
the breakfast is good-pastries, fruit, toast, ham, cheese and four different kinds of sicilian nutellas(including orange and pistachio). Mini bar is well stocked (no snacks though) and surprisingly reasonable. lovely bathroom.
Female receptionist very friendly-male receptionist (and chef it would seem) not that friendly but that is a minor quibble.Also, Cappuccinoes at breakfast are made with UHT milk but unfortunately this seemed to be normal enough.