Villa del Bosco and VdB Next Hotel and Event Living

My family has been coming to Villa del Bosco for decades. While it has certainly changed now, and continues to evolve with ongoing renovations, the setting and structure are beautiful. It is a very quick and easy trip to get to the center of Catania as well. Breakfast is sufficient with yogurts, breads, fruits, and other options directly from the kitchen made fresh for you. Staff are very friendly and helpful. The ordering system for the 24/7 bar and cafe is a bit confusing if you are not good with technology - you must order it yourself and add it to your tab on an “honesty” system via your phone or the iPad they provide. Once we learned the system it was great and easy. Rooms were clean and newly renovated. Certainly would return when visiting our family in Canalicchio again. The current hotel is missing a few of the lovely features the old hotel used to have but in general it was a good stay. Grazie mille Villa del Bosco!

Pros: -astonishing terrace view -kind and friendly staff, special thanks to Mrs. Alessia, she was extremely helpful and supportive. -comfortable bed -decent breakfast -outdoor pool Cons: -jacuzzi, which was the main reason I’ve booked the presidential suite for such a price, doesn’t have a heating system. Meaning if you want to use it maintenance staff have to fill it up with hot water using rubber hose, which takes around ~2h each time and makes it really difficult to enjoy it without planning beforehand, not to mention lack of comfort with it. -WiFi didn’t work in the room -horrendous amounts of dust, to the point it was hard to enjoy the vaccinations with running nose and a headache. - rather old and damaged room, it might have been a “gold” standard 7 years ago. For over 600€/2 nights it wasn’t worth the price.

Very bad experience. I paid €770 in advance for 7 nights for an internal room. When we arrived, they tried to charge 27% more for the room and put us in an outside annex next to the noisy street. We cancelled and went elsewhere. But they REFUSED TO REIMBURSE, and this is illegal because (1) they did not respect contractual obligations for what we had purchased, and (2) they never sent cancellation conditions to us. We are currently going through legal proceedings in court, using my credit card insurance, to recover costs + damages.