Where to stay in Sicily
Aug 4th, 2004, 02:30 PM
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 6
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Where to stay in Sicily
Please help. Going to Sicily for a week for the first time and I need some advice on which city to stay in and which hotels you recommend. I notice lot of the hotels are already fully booked. I'm looking for a 5 to 3 1/2 start type of hotels, preferably one on the beach or a beach resort would be nice too. Also, how should I make the reservation? Is it cheaper on some websites than others? If you could recommend where I should used to make the reservation. Also, I only have a week and from forums that I read I need 2 weeks, so where are a ?must see? places that I should go? Should I rent a car? Should I split my time in different cities? PLEASE HELP!
Aug 4th, 2004, 03:02 PM
#2
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,717
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Joe: Whatever name you post under, you must realize that no one -- with the stupid exception of myself -- is going to do all the research for you.
If you want to go to Sicily, then for heaven's sake at least look at the (plentiful) information on Sicily in Fodor's Destinations. THEN, if you have questions, post a question, but not BEFORE!
If you want to go to Sicily, then for heaven's sake at least look at the (plentiful) information on Sicily in Fodor's Destinations. THEN, if you have questions, post a question, but not BEFORE!
Aug 4th, 2004, 03:47 PM
#3
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 6
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Eloise, first I would like to deeply apologize for the confusion, it was my silly and stupid hope to get more responses as well as feeling really guilty for wasting your precious time and changing my plans. I'm just so clueless about Europe and struggling to make a this trip a memorable one. But one thing for sure I need to comeback often to get all different flavors that Europe offers and I'll definitely use the plan you laid out for me for Spain...
About Sicily, I did look at the other postings about Sicily for about 6+ hours. There were postings about different hotels and when I looked up the hotels on the web they weren't exactly what I was looking for. And on the websites under the description or the pictures, I couldn?t really tell if the hotels were sitting in the middle of the city block or up on the hills or on the sandy beach. But you are definitely right there are lots of information on this forum and I certainly am not the type to skip my own research, it just isn't my style.
Anyway, I hope you accept my sincere apologies and I would not blame anyone if no one responses to this posting. I guess I had it coming, I just hope no one will hold a grudge on my future postings.
About Sicily, I did look at the other postings about Sicily for about 6+ hours. There were postings about different hotels and when I looked up the hotels on the web they weren't exactly what I was looking for. And on the websites under the description or the pictures, I couldn?t really tell if the hotels were sitting in the middle of the city block or up on the hills or on the sandy beach. But you are definitely right there are lots of information on this forum and I certainly am not the type to skip my own research, it just isn't my style.
Anyway, I hope you accept my sincere apologies and I would not blame anyone if no one responses to this posting. I guess I had it coming, I just hope no one will hold a grudge on my future postings.
Aug 4th, 2004, 04:13 PM
#4
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,717
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Joe: I truly do not care whether you use my plan for Spain or not. I'm simply trying to point out that you cannot only go by posts here in the forum and by looking at Web sites at random. You don't even have to buy a guide book: go to Fodor's Destinations, look at Sicily, make up your own mind -- on the basis of information provided by informed professionals -- what interests you most, what seems most promising to you. Then look at the Web sites. Then, if the Web sites do not seem sufficiently clear, post a message like "Hotel X or Hotel Y in Town A in Sicily?" You are more likely than not to then get replies for and against the one and the other. But Sicily is probably less well known than other areas of Italy, so replies about hotels in Sicily will be far less numerous than the hundreds of opinions about hotels in Siena.
And I, for one, do not hold a grudge, and I doubt that anyone else does. It's simply that your questions have been so broad and unfocussed that people don't know where to start in replying to them.
And I, for one, do not hold a grudge, and I doubt that anyone else does. It's simply that your questions have been so broad and unfocussed that people don't know where to start in replying to them.
Aug 4th, 2004, 05:43 PM
#6
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 1,809
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
When are you going? What are your primary interests; beaches, archaeological sites? If you are going to be there 6-7 nights I would split it up in 2 places. Mondello is a popular beach resort, and the stretch of beach below Taormina is also popular; I believe that town is called Mazzaro.
Also near Taormina you have Giardini Naxos.
Mondello is near Palermo so you could take public transport to see the sites.
My Sicily trip report:
http://fodors.com/forums/threadselec...p;tid=34412340
My focus was on seeing the archaeological sites, I was there in March-April so it wasn't beach weather.
Also near Taormina you have Giardini Naxos.
Mondello is near Palermo so you could take public transport to see the sites.
My Sicily trip report:
http://fodors.com/forums/threadselec...p;tid=34412340
My focus was on seeing the archaeological sites, I was there in March-April so it wasn't beach weather.
