Typical charming villa surrounded by nature and old trees

Our host Cristina was very friendly, welcoming and provided us with everything we needed. The house was perfect for our family with one end of the house for 2 adults and the children whilst the grandparents had the other end with plenty of space for all of us. There was a beautiful shaded area under the trees with table and chairs along with hammocks and this provided a perfect area to escape the midday heat. The property is very well located to two towns, Milo and Zaffarana with many restaurants and supermakets to choose from. I would certainly recommend this property to my friends. Thank you Cristina for a wonderful stay. Toni

Very nice property, localization is very good for visiting Etna, taormine, Catane, Alcantara....

My family and friends had a perfect week in this superb house. If you're looking for a place out of time, with splendid early 20th-century Italian architecture in a huge estate planted with chestnut and other fruit trees, this is the house for you. It's a great place to live. We were there during a heatwave, and enjoyed the coolness in the evenings (and the pool during the day). And our host was absolutely adorable, responding immediately and in great detail to all our questions and requests about the area. Just perfect!

Beautiful house, inside and out, including a fascinating original kitchen, beautiful garden and surroundings, but.... ...seriously lacking in the basic home comforts expected for this price. Arriving in the evening, and delayed an hour at the car rental desk, we arrived in the village in the dark. It turned out we'd been given two wrong phone numbers so it's lucky we had email facility or we actually may not have ever found it, let alone been met with the keys! No welcome pack of any sort, not a morsel of bread and cheese or cheap bottle of wine as so often is left to welcome you in a self-catering property. Thankfully we had bought a slice of pizza at the airport so it was cold pizza and tap water for dinner the first night. Beautiful beds but made of metal so they clanged every time you turned over...and mattresses like concrete! A firm mattress is one thing but this was something else entirely. We so needed sleep but some nights just searched for a comfortable place to lay, even curling up on the sofa. Sadly no warm blankets to help with that, just cotton throws. The blankets may have been locked up in one of the many locked units of furniture. The ill-equipped 'modern' kitchen lacked a kettle, long glasses for long cool drinks, day-to-day kitchen knives for cutting up salad stuff etc (there was just a break knife). Was this all locked away too?! Goodness knows how a couple of families would cope there. Temperamental gas hob and temperamental hot water for washing up (remember, no kettle to help and no dishwasher either) and who wants to struggle with washing up when on holiday? We had asked for wifi but this had to be brought along later, along with a couple of kitchen knives. The temperamental hot water meant it sometimes took an hour to run a vaguely warm bath, which we then topped up with pans of water boiled on the stove and carried down the corridor. One shower unit had such flimsy doors that leaked that we abandoned it and used the other. One toilet cistern wouldn't stop filling so ditto with that. No house information folder with useful information and instructions. But there were several bins with instructions about daily recycling and rubbish (hence there was the sad sight of rubbish at the side of all the roads every day of the week). The family tried to be helpful each time we contacted them, but we shouldn't have had to contact them daily! A tad disappointing for a fairly expensive property.