Italy
, Sicily 
Brad
BEWARE: There is NOTHING luxurious about this property. The entire property from the main entry to the rooms are very dated and worn (not in a historic way but in a totally unfashionable, very faded way). Pure ugly. This property has no host and essentially no amenities. The window views of the photos give a sense of an old-world, charming hotel. This is what we expected. We made an uniformed decision to book based upon the name, a significant price point, the view photos, and reviews that suggested it was loved by couples. All of these factors set an expectation that this would be a nice place. It is NOT. A sticker on the front door from 2015 says it is 4.5 stars. That tells everything. No update sense 2015! You have to call a number to get anyone to open the main door to let you in. This is quite challenging - particularly when the phone number posted on the door is a non-working phone number. We arrived at 7pm and fortunately found a neighboring restaurant that could help us contact the host. Then an elderly woman answered the phone and buzzed us in the door and directed us where to find our room door. Once we arrived at our room, we decided it was such a downer that we would leave. Then the nightclub adjacent to the property opened. Music played loudly until the late evening. We decided the place was too gross to stay, and we forfeited our prepaid room, (a signficant amount flushed without any option for reimbursement). Lesson learned.
