10/10 Excellent
Lisa
24 Oct 2023
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great resort. Stay here not Taormina.
So the resort was great. It is definitely a resort, not just a hotel.
Location: it's a 25 minute drive to Taormina, where the great restaurants and shops are. We found a parking lot and parked every day for 6 euros until midnight. Staying in Taormina with a car is a non-starter. I don't know if the hotel has a shuttle into town. The town of Naxos also has dining that is walkable from the hotel.
Hotel: There was live music every day. Free parking. Tennis courts and pools. Multiple bars and restaurants. It was a lively place, though it skews older and attracts the tour bus set. There is an attached beach with hundreds of loungers that can be reserved (or sat on until the reservers come). The downside is that it is a pebble beach, not a sand beach. So no walking without sandals. The grounds are gorgeous. It feels like the Caribbean with all of the palm trees. The hotel is on the way to Catania (do not stay in Catania if you can help it, ESPECIALLY with a car. It's a slum and I've never seen such awful driving) and Syracuse if you want to do day trips like we did. Tolls between Naxos and Catania are under 2 euros.
The room was comfy, but they use those dual single beds to create a queen and I fell in-between them once. I don't know how these still exist. The place is very clean.
I definitely recommend the Unahotel Naxos. And when I return to the region, as I am sure to do, I would make it a point to try to stay here again.
Lisa
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2023