Agriturismo Ghiritina, Francavilla di Sicilia (IT) - Deals & Reviews

the location and views, the staff were both friendly and helpful & and the evening Sicilian set meal was excellent.

One of the best agriturismos I´ve been to. Our bungalow had a view of the surrounding mountains and hilltop villages, including, smack-dab in the center, Mt. Etna! Imagine waking up with a smoking volcano in site! The bungalows are well-kept and very comfortable with a very useful and large refrigerator. TV was usual Italian fare. Beds were comfortable. There is a porch where you can sit out at night and breathe the very clean air and see the stars overhead. The restaurant is reasonably priced with local specialities. Exceptional is the pizza and focaccia (the picant one is exquisite). The pizzas are made by the hard-working and wonderful staff. The swimming pool is immaculate.

Excellent choise if you want to stay a night before visiting Etna. Mountains view, quite place, clean roms, good Wi-Fi. Really nice place to spend a night

Poor breakfast (as always in Italy)

Nice and friendly staff, especialy the owner Lorenzo and waiter Antonio (he is also good english speaker). Wonderful, very clean pool, beautiful view of Etna in front of the bungalow, beautiful nature. Food in the restaurant also very tasty, not expensive - pizza is the best. All in all an unforgetable stay at Agriturismo Ghiritina.

Location, it has a very nice view to Mount Etna. It's relatively close to the beach (~ 30 min drive), Taormina, and Alcantara gorge (~ 5 min drive). The onsite restaurant is very good and relatively inexpensive, especially the pizza bar. Also the house wine is good and too expensive.

When we arrived we were given a room in a shack for seasonal workers accompanied by a claim that it was a normal room (I should admit the room was clean but it was not a hotel room). We had to threaten them that we would move out next morning (we were planning to stay there for three nights) without payment for the remaining two nights and leaving bad reviews on Booked.net and tripadviser.com unless they move us to a normal room. They moved us but they did not seem to be happy about that. I don't know whether its was some kind of a special treatment or they were simply overbooked since there was a big language problem. The only language spoken by staff was Italian except for one waiter who spoke a bit of English (he was very helpful). I don't know if our cases was a rule or hopefully an exception but be aware.

The setting with the view of Mount Etna The relative ease with which you could drive to other places in the east of Sicily Friendly staff who did their best to accommodate our requests even though it was hard to communicate (we would have had great difficulty if we hadn't know a bit of Italian ourselves). Good pizzas Would recommend in season - can imagine it would be a great place to stay for a few days.

We went out of season (mid February) and our room was very cold to start with, as it was an outside bungalow. The bathroom was very cold throughout our stay. The main building was also very cold, and we were the only guests staying there. A lot of the advertised attractions were closed - this was a problem throughout Sicily - would not recommend at the time of year we were there.