Catania hotels near Fontana dell'Elefante

Pros: Staff room breakfast everything

Pros: Location is fantastic, directly on the pedestrian street. Staff is nice and polite, rooms are clean. Breakfast is also good.

Cons: Check in and out process is kind of slow and every time we needed our car out from the garage we had to wait about 15-20 minutes

Pros: The location was excellent! Getting in and out of the hotel was easy. Their valet always had my car available at the times requested. I would stay at no other place when working in Catania.

Cons: N/A

Pros: We arrived late after a delayed flight and an absent driver at the airport, and were greeted by a warm and friendly receptionist who said she had taken the liberty of upgrading our room. We could have hugged her. We dropped off our bags and went up to the rooftop lounge which was spectacular and gave us a sense of the city nightlife below. The bed was large and comfortable, the room climate controlled, and breakfast the next morning was exceptional--especially the Sicilian pastries!

Cons: All the people on the rooftop bar smoking cigars. Nothing the hotel could do about that!

Cons: mattress was too hard

Cons: I was given a double bed plus single bed instead of 3 single beds I had requested

Pros: Great location and very quiet. Fabulous rooftop bar and breakfast.

Cons: Hard pillows. More info on arrival like a map and things to do

Pros: LOCATION.

Cons: NO VIEW FROM ANY ROOM.

Pros: Location and the staff

Cons: Cost of wine for a small glass at €8 is ridiculous in Sicily.

Pros: Liked the rooftop restaurant and bar. Excellent service. Bed was very Comfortable. Hotel staff were great. They fixed us a breakfast to go since we had to check out before breakfast.

Cons: Room was smaller than I like. Shower sprayer head didn’t hold up as gravity and water pressure kept moving it around. Light switches were confusing.

Pros: Breakfast very good, open terasse with sea view, good selection

Cons: The bar is small and not fully open during the evenings

Pros: Great location, has changed my mind of Catania, great bars and restaurants. great walks and sight seeing.

Cons: The swimming locations for beach access had closed even thought is what 30 C.

Pros: Lovely restaurants nearby, facility to park the car, great breakfast, lift.

Cons: Our room had a strange shower and we have seen a few. This was not obvious on how to change the water temperature, we had to have staff show us. Not obvious.

Pros: Hotel's position

Cons: Booked 3 nights two rooms the first night was screwed as they only booked one room when both were prepaid. Besides this a call received from the hotel in the morning did nothing to avoid this even I confirmed both rooms. The night receptionist tried to put blame on me, then her colleague and rudely telling us that the only alternative was that she can accommodate two of us in a flat 300 meters away. This screwed our first night, out of three, of a walk on the promenade. Thank you Gaia (the night receptionist), who really lacks some communication skills. The manager Luca Trovato, excused himself, though not personally by providing two bottles of sparkling wine and biscuits, the day after in each room. Despite this the girls at the reception, the day after were much more polite and accommodating.

Pros: Stunning views of Mt Etna from the room and fabulous breakfast terrace. Nice variety of breakfast choices, including some homemade cakes. Breakfast staff were efficient and pleasant. Great location for walking after dinner, with a wide, bicycle-free, well-lit promenade, which felt very safe.

Cons: Bed linen could be softer, sheets were very average and scratchy. Breakfast juice could be freshly made but wasn’t, and available juice choices were nothing special.

Pros: Large comfortable room, underground car park. Good choices for breakfast

Cons: Rock hard pillows. Too far out of old town to walk but easy to get in by metro or taxi

Pros: We selected Katane Palace because it was close to the main station but turned out to be much better than we expected. It is actually a classy hotel with very nice staff, a great bar, excellent restaurant. There is also a beautiful internal courtyard. Room was very comfortable and tariff includes a sumptuous buffet style breakfast. Highly recommended.

Cons: The air conditioning in the room wasn’t very effective - had to keep the window open and brave the mosquitos! In room tea making facilities would have been welcome.

Pros: We had a lovely stay. Everyone was very friendly and provided great recommendations on how to spend our limited time in Rome. Will definitely stay there again.

Pros: Location

Cons: Bed- very uncomfortable. Rooms old.

Pros: The breakfast was OK. Nothing amazing about it. The courtyard was great for meals and after dinner drinks.

Cons: A couple lights were out in the bathroom, the hair dryer would go out after a minute or two and you had to wait a few minutes for it to get going again. Nothing to do really in the immediate area but not too far to walk to some nice attractions.

Pros: Staff and location

Pros: Breakfast was very good. Hotel premises and facilities are outstanding.

Cons: Only not so positive aspect was distance of hotel to places of interest, and difficult parking.

Pros: The croissants were great and on the whole the breakfast was varied and catered for all tastes

Cons: Being British we thought the tea drinkers were not catered for: For example there was never any English breakfast tea available nor large cups available (there were only 2 mugs!!!)

Pros: Breakfast was very good. The staff were very obliging and kind to us when we arrived very late due to a delayed flight. They directed us to park our hire car and took good care of watching it.

Cons: Nothing to complain about

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Too far away from a 4 star hotel standards. Rooms are dirty. A lot of noise coming from doors opening, service elevators to the room. Not worth what you pay

Pros: Central location to where we needed to be

Pros: At the breakfast time you can get free glass of cava. Kept our luggages free of charge because of the late flight Staff while complaining putted some efforts to fix it Felt safe even the homeless people were sleeping almost by the door of the entrance of it

Cons: I have booked the room with the mountain Etna view and a balcony. I have payed more money just to have exactly that room for the very special occasion. They have upgraded me for the suit, but it was just a room with the ugly street view, just a bigger than regular. If I would have a chance and I would just cancel it. Beds were absolutely uncomfortable and the wallpapers were falling apart. Room carpets seems were cleaned properly long time ago and I started having dust allergy (I have small asthma). I am not even talking about dusty curtains. Reception - absoltely useless. When we have asked for the nice beach close by we were guided to some black sand beach with big waves, which is 15 min away. We have walked around 2 hours searching, but the ones around were just rocks or just kinda sandish with a fresh fish seller and come cats around. After making a pit stop at the coffee place and checking google we figured out that the nice one is 25 min drive from where we were. If you ever decide to stay in here just know that reception doesn't know much or doesn't really care. Breakfast for the value of money was absolutely dissapointing as for example coffee of one of our days was finished (more than 1 hour before the breakfast has been finished) as some other things. The staff was just relaxing and having their breakfast just by the side of the guests. Not a good selection of vegetables, just 4 kinds - two types of low quality letuce, worse ever seen tomatoes in Catania and something more what I don't remember. Even boiled eggs were not fresh!!! A bit of fruit, some juice, wafles and so on. No avena flakes, just kellogs style stuff. Looks good from far away. Would highly recomend places for food around the hotel. You will be surprised how good it is comparing to what you are getting in a hotel. Shower in a room was barelly alive as no water preasure and it takes some time to regulate it, sink was clogged.

Cons: Room condition not very good - mainly wall coverings peeling off, worn and just a bit 'tired". Breakfast very good, dinner was very poor. Bar service excellent.

Pros: Spacious room, bathroom comfortable, breakfast good, all staff very helpful. Great Location and car parking and guest pick up access was very convenient. The overall hotel building was quite grand however,generally needs restoration throughout.

Cons: Carpet and furniture throughout was very dated and threadbare. Elevators not safe, due to door closure not sensitive to obstruction either by a person or object. Room/Door was squeaky, Light fittings were loose and coming away from the walls. Again, the building is quite grand and is in dire need of updating to it's former glory.

Pros: We thoroughly enjoyed our breakfast. There was a variety of foods available for us to choose from. For us the location was perfect. We wanted a place close to everything but not in the middle of Catania.

Cons: I'm not sure I would change anything as all our needs were meet.