Top 10 Altana Hotels

As a family of four we really enjoyed two days on our round trip of Sicily at this beautiful hotel. The hotel has everything you need. It has clean and spacious rooms, a tasty breakfast, a great pool area, private beaches with a marvelous scenery and the possibility to do yoga classes and use the gym. July is really hot. The kids spent basically all day at the pool and really enjoyed it. Just watch out not to get sunburned. Another thing to watch out for is that it is extremely slippery around the pool. We saw three guests fall, one who broke two toes falling. Maybe the hotel should put up more signs to encourage cautiousness around the pool. The rooms were really clean and you get an extra beach bag with towels for the pool or beach. The breakfast offered plenty of possibilities, eggs of all kinds, coffees, bread, cereals etc. they also offer delicious gluten free options. The yoga class is really recommended. Angela, a Swedish yoga instructor, offers classes four times a week. The spa treatment is also recommended and at the gym you have a decent selection of multi-gyms, treadmills, dumbbells etc. We stayed at room with even numbers and unfortunately an infant called our room 15-20 times during our stay, waking us up both mornings at six something and waking our kids up one of the nights. The hotel of course couldn’t help this and offered us to check out one hour later on the last day, and a complementary drink. It was really annoying so if you can avoid staying at 111 it might be smart, but hopefully the hotel finds a way to block these kind of random calls. The hotel is located a 15-20 minute walk away from Cefalu. Due to the parking situation in Cefalu I would recommend to take a taxi. It should cost you around 11-12 EUR.

Beautiful scenery, excellent service

This is a large, modern hotel with a spacious reception area and restaurant. It's right across from the beach, and if you get a note from the hotel the beach will give you 20% off on the cost of renting a beach chair (16 euros instead of 20 for two people). The reception area had many signs about COVID restrictions, but nobody seemed to be enforcing them. I was a little put off by the signs in the room telling you all the things that are not allowed (No outside food in the rooms! No doing your laundry in the sink! No washing out your bathing suit in the bathroom!), but the room was pleasant and clean, with air conditioning. We had a sea view. The breakfast buffet was good, but it was annoying that we weren't allowed to sit at the best tables in the outdoor restaurant because those were reserved for lunch. They weren't marked ”reserved,” so we were embarrassed when the staff made us move after we had already sat down (this happened to other guests as well). The hotel is in the modern part of town, but just a few blocks from the much more scenic old town.