we travelled as part of a tour. the location was ona main road cut off from the beach. the shuttle service was erratic and did not suit our schedule.

If that doesn't concern the reader, the hotel is good. spacious, clean rooms, friendly service and an excellent choice of food both at breakfast and dinner. (lovely roast pork and grilled swordfish). supurb view of the sea.

We stayed at the Baia Taormina Grand Palace hotel for 6 nights - and we were upgraded on arrival to a deluxe suite . We were very pleased with the accommodation. We were on the 6th floor of the new building, and had a large apartment, with a secluded balcony, which had a table, 2 chairs and 2 sun loungers and great views of the bay. We could see views across towards Taormina from our balcony . We enjoyed the hotel facilities, although the bar prices were quite high compared to bars in Taormina, our bedroom was a good size, as was the bathroom. The staff were very helpful and polite to us and we used the shuttle bus on two occasions to take us into Taormina. We thought the breakfast offered was good (despite reading some of the dreadful reports about the food offered in Trip Advisor reviews! ) when we got down to breakfast there was plenty of variety offered, both in different breads, fruit, yoghurts, croissants and other pastries etc. I used the omelette bar to have a ham and mushroom omelette made up for me. The restaurant staff were efficient and in good humour - perhaps they respond to rude guests differently to how they were with us - as we were happy and enjoying our break at the hotel. We would recommend it to others and would say please don't be put off by some of the horrible comments left by people who clearly do not enjoy themselves as much as we did.

We stayed here five nights. When we finally found it, it was definitely beautiful. The staff was aware of the problems to find it with a GPS, but for some reason they have decided not to share this information on the web-page to help their guests!
We initially got a room at the very back of the hotel, so we would have to take 3 elevators to get to the main hotel, as these room did not have any internet access we requested to be given a new room which we were after the initial night.
The hotel is in a good location between two villages and close to Taormina.
The hotel was clean and pretty quiet. We used the pool a couple of times and dinner once, the dinner buffet was ok, but expensive for what it was.
Definitely recommend going for a nice long weekend or something, at a hotel with breath taking views.

Hotel Baia Taormina has the most breath taking views of the bay, we were really fortunate enough to be upgraded to the executive suite on the 6th floor-so the views from our private balcony were spetacular-on the left hand side you can see Calabria-and to the right is Taormina and Casetelmola. If you visit the Hotel Baia-make sure you request to stay in the grand palace side of the hotel-which is new and beautiful and has the bay views don't stay at the 'classic' part of the hotel-which is run-down and has no views. The Hotel is well equiped with lovely decor, facilities and pools. The hotel itself is not actually located in Taormina city-Marina d' Agro is about 20 minutes drive to the city centre of Taormina. The Hotel Baia has a shuttle van service that will take you to Taormina and return you to the hotel at no cost. Its also equiped with pool and beach towels-at no cost. I recommend that you eat out-not at the hotel-the hotel has a buffet type lunch/dinner service which is very pricey and food is not that appealing. Get a shuttle bus to Taormina and enjoy sicilian cuisine in any of the trattoria's in the city centre. The Buffet breakfast at the Baia was good-the staff are fantastic-very helpful and friendly and overall our time at the Hotel Baia Taormina was fantastic.