Catania Centro Rooms — Hotel in Catania

We stayed here for three nights. |The hotel is easy to get to from the airport. We caught the Alibis for €4 each. The bus goes to the port, then the train station and a loop around the city centre and there is a stop just around the corner from the hotel. |The hotel is on the second floor of the building and the entrance is through some big wooden doors. There is a small sign next to the doors and a buzzer for the hotel. |Reception buzz you in, then you go through the door on your right and up one flight of stairs. There is a lift. |The staff have basic English and were extremely helpful. |The room was a good size and was like stepping back in time. It felt very old fashioned in a good way. Very high ceilings. Windows with shutters leading to small metal balconies. Room was very clean. Beds fairly comfortable. Bathroom had a shower that was very hot and powerful. It does take a couple of mins to become fully hot. Lots of towels and soap dispensers in the shower and by the sink.|Aircon was good and kept the room cool. Usb sockets next to bed for charging phones etc. |Sky TV available to watch.|It was on a busy road but with the windows, big wooden shutters and a further internal patio door closed you shut most of it out. |We would definitely stay there again if back in...

I stayed here for four nights and was not very impressed. I'll start with a few good things though. The staff were very friendly and those that could speak English did their best to be helpful. Check-in was quick and easy. The rooms were a good size and bed was lovely and big as it was two single beds pushed together. The bathroom was clean and the shower was hot and powerful. There was air-conditioning in the room which worked well when needed and was easy to adjust.||However, the hotel was very run down and shabby in appearance. It is on the first floor and the lift is tiny. The breakfast was a limited selection of cold meats, cheese, cereal and cake. Nothing hot at all. There was bread for toasting but no standard toaster, just some sort of flat toasted sandwich making machine. ||The worst bit was my room. It was a corner room with windows over looking a very busy crossroads. Traffic went past constantly day and night, including many ambulances with their sirens on full blast and motorcycles with no silencers. Although my room had outside windows, shutters and inside sliding doors, none of these shut properly so did little to shut out the noise - I may just as well have been trying to sleep...

These rooms are located through a huge wooden courtyard door that is marked by a plaque. Even though we had the address the Taxi driver walked me around trying to find it but eventually we spotted the sign. You will have to buzz in to get through the outer and then the inner door of the complex. There is a small elevator. The staff is friendly but don’t expect a lot of English. Room was clean with air conditioning and typical of a 3 star accommodation. Breakfast was limited and even though it was included we had some unexplained additional charges associated with it but they weren’t extravagant. Location, The rooms are about 1.2 mi to train station and water port but much closer to restaurants. It’s a good location. If I were to go back I would probably stay closer to the Sant Agata church...