Rivage Taormina

This hotel is really quite dated, but it is clean, the breakfast is of a good standard and the staff are really fabulous. It is approximately 1.5 miles from Taormina and costs €50 in a taxi for this short journey. Taxi’s are sparse and Uber doesn’t seem to function in this area. However, if you turn left along the seafront and walk to Bar Enjoy, there is a bus stop just around the corner. I think the bus stop says Fermata or something like that. (Ignore the big blue bus shelter opposite) a bus goes to Taormina once per hour for €2. When you come back you catch the bus where you get dropped but you must buy your ticket from the ticket office where you catch the bus, before getting on. If you want a budget friendly accommodation then this is this hotel works. The nearer to Taormina you get, the more expensive accommodation becomes!

We received a very friendly and professional welcome, the service throughout our stay from ever member of staff was excellent. We paid extra for a Deluxe sea view room which had a spacious balcony sheltered by vines and came with two sunbeds and table and chairs. The room itself was spotlessly clean and the air-conditioning worked perfectly. Breakfast had a good selection. The hotel restaurant which was at the beach club opposite served excellent Italian cuisine, we had dinner there 4 times and each time the food was delicious. The pool was nice but not many sunbeds available, this wasn't a problem during our stay as not many people used it. There was sufficient hangers in the room however there weren't any drawers or shelves for other clothes. The private transfer to and from the airport was very expensive. We used the train instead which was a lot cheaper.

Absolutely lovely. The hotel itself is immaculate - housekeeping is top notch. All the staff are so welcoming and friendly. The hotel is located in between Mazzeo and Letojani. Easy enough to get up into Taormina which can be very busy, on a 10/15 minute shuttle, which is a 5 minute walk away. Hotel is directly opposite the beach - takes about 10 seconds to cross the road to the hotels beach club where there is a lovely restaurant, snack bar and bar. You have sunbeds and towels included. The beach is bit pebbly (tiny stones) but lovely. You will need beach shoes. We had a direct sea view room which was beautiful. The area has a good selection of beach front restaurants along the front which we used a lot (all walkable) as we wanted a relaxed easy week. Overall i wouldn’t hesitate to book this beautiful boutique hotel especially if you want beach and no hustle bustle of very busy Taormina itself. Thank you all for a wonderful week.

Perfect hotel, immaculate and lovely location. All staff are exceptional, very professional and cannot do enough for you. We were half board and food is delicious. Beach club on site with great facilities. Highly recommend this hotel. We loved our stay. We will definely return.

This is a nice boutique hotel with friendly staff. The bar area is nice and drinks are reasonably priced The bed was comfortable. Breakfast was ok with a selection of cakes, meats and cheeses and some pre cooked eggs. There was no option for eggs to be cooked to order or omelets and the water boiler for cooking your own eggs never had any water in it. There was equipment on display for crepes and sauces but no crepes, a bit strange really. There was a lot of noise and dust from construction work from both the front and back of the hotel whilst we stayed. The beach club had been destroyed by a storm and so no lido pool, terrace bar or beach club facilities on offer and no mention on the hotel website that these were in the process of being built. The website just says it is guaranteed June to September. Disingenuous to say the least. There is a lot of construction going on all along the seafront at Letojanni due to the storm ,so it wasn't the relaxing, picturesque break we had hoped for and the hotel photographs are misleading. The hotel swimming pool by the hotel is very small and only has 2 pairs of loungers. The outside shower for the pool was being used as a plant storage area during our stay so we could not use it. The pool had lots of surface scum and grease on it plus vegetation at the bottom and we only saw it being cleaned once during the stay. Guests from the neighboring hotel were also walking in and out and using the restaurant . Taormina is a short bus ride costing 3 Euro return and is very pretty but very busy. It is possible to walk to Taormina but the road is very busy and has no footpath so I definitely would not recommend it. Would we have booked this hotel if we had known in advance about all the building work at the front and back ....., absolutely not. Check before that everything has been built.

We stayed here for 5 nights for a part of our honeymoon and we had such a lovely time. Tina was so welcoming on our arrival and explained that as we were early (midday), our room was not yet ready as check in isn’t usually until 3pm but offered us complimentary drinks and said they’d do their best to have our room ready asap. Our room was really light and spacious, so clean and smelt amazing and we had a lovely balcony which looked out onto the beach (we paid extra for a sea view room). There was a lovely spread each morning for breakfast with anything you could imagine on offer and the waitresses were always so friendly and helpful. Mazzeo/Letojanni is such a lovely place on the outskirts of busy Taormina (we had a great view of Taormina from our balcony) with loads of lovely beach bars/restaurants. If you wanted to go to Taormina there’s a bus every hour which only takes 10-15mins and is only €2pp each way. There was a lot of building works/reno works going on in Mazzeo/Letojanni when we were there (we understand there was a hurricane in the winter which must’ve caused some damage), so I imagine in a month or so time there’ll be even more choice of places to go - the beach bar of the hotel was one of the places which looked like it was being rebuilt so wasn’t yet open. The only slight downside we found to the hotel was that it was a bit noisy at nighttimes when people were coming/going to their rooms as the floors are all tiled, the closing of doors echoed right through the building, and the shower was sometimes a bit temperamental. But that aside, we had really relaxing time staying at Hotel Rivage and would absolutely recommend to anyone wanting to visit the Taormina/Mt Etna area of Sicily without being right in the middle of the hustle and bustle!