Hotel Caesar Palace

Lovely clean and spacious hotel. Nice grounds to walk around in, fish pond and nice sunny seating areas. Pool great size but too cold to get in in October. Gym- lovely little gym. Shame it's not open in the mornings. Shuttle bus handy but only seats around 7 people so we ended up walking to the beach . We enjoyed the exercise but the pavements are not great and poorly lit. Pizza restaurant shut for the season- very disappointing. No juice machine as mentioned in previous reviews. No proper coffee. Desserts a real let down- saves on calories i suppose Bar staff very moody and bar service extremely slow. Bar snacks at 6pm consist of olives and cubes of cheese and was all eaten within minutes! Taormina nice place to go on the bus. Be aware that the bus timetable isn't accurate. Large supermarket 5min walk- turn left out of the hotel. Beach-2 free sunbeds when you show hotel card. Sooo many people selling things,very annoying. We went to the beach on the other side. There's no sunbeds or anyone around. Nature reserve at the back of the beach,views of Etna and you can go up to the Alacantra river! Gorgeous place. 22 min walk back to hotel :)

Hotel was clean and cosy,was a pain with the card thing instead of a wrist band as you had to carry it and show it all the time. Also having a proper key for your room with a key for electricity was heavy I kept removing door key and leaving rest in my room for easyness. Food was okay but seemed to be mostly the same each meal time, was disappointed with desserts. From the Friday until Sunday the hotel was busy with conference meetings and I feel that the rest of us were ignored. Most of the staff were friendly and helpful, bar staff could do with people training. Not much round the hotel for places to go, beach wasn't a walk away and shuttle bus only ran at certain times of the day. Holiday was a nice relaxing one due to time of year, but not impressed.

The hotel itself needs updating but room was clean and had everything we needed, cleaning team were great. The mini bar was chargeable which is a let down. Pool was freezing sadly, and we didn't mind paying a deposit for pool towels but it's not on being charged €2 for a clean one! WiFi is also chargeable which is bad in this day and age! The card you get instead of a wrist band is ridiculous because you have to share it and keep getting the blooming thing out! It doesn't work for 3/4 of you. And one key! Food.... Well needs improvement. It was cold! breakfast they served mixed veg! When at dinner there was grilled tomato, mushrooms and proper sausage. Now why don't you try swapping them and it might work! The pasta was gorgeous and the roast was nice but it wasn't hot enough. At breakfast the bacon was full of solid fat on the utensils and so greasy, scrambled and fried eggs were not cooked. Again a massive pain at dinner getting the card out at every meal time. The bar was a let down, restricting drinks in the day and cocktails were chargeable which isn't good for all inclusive, but the branded spirits were excellent. They don't tell you about tourist tax until the last day so be aware of this. Everywhere else it's the first day we've paid. The location isn't great and the hotel shuttle bus is too small, we had to wait for 3 trips to get to the beach and same trouble coming back. The beach is lovely though but restricted to 2 sun beds which is silly! Touromina is beautiful and also isola Bella, this with the views of mount Etna make up for the disappointment of the hotel but a bit of tweaking it would be really good. Food needs sorting and they must do something about the amount of mosquitoes around the hotel, they are everywhere and we got bitten bad... even wearing repellant. Enjoyed our holiday but shame things let the hotel down.