Sant Alphio Garden Hotel & SPA

Lovely hotel with fantastic views of Etna from your balcony. Lovely swimming pool with swim up bar. Staff are very pleasant and professional. 8 minute walk to the beach on a direct path . Would recommend

We stayed here as part of our tour of Sicily. Beautiful grounds and we had a gorgeous view of Mt Etna from our room. Breakfast was good, but the one dinner we had was sub par compared to what we had in town. The hotel is relatively close to Taormina (€30 cab ride) and Mt Etna. And the beach is right down the street. There are also 5+10 good restaurants within an easy walking distance of the grounds. My only real gripe (outside of the meal) is that the toilet was only 1" (2.5cm) from the wall. I'm a bigger guy and had to sit on it at a 45-degree angle to be comfotable, but that's a minor detail. The photos I'm including were literally shot looking out the 2 sets of lobby doors.

Nice atmosphere. A/C works. Note the evening dinner dress code. Dinner menu in several languages.

Having visited the Sant Alphio Garden already in 2019 we more or less spontaneously decided to spent another vacation here. Reasons for us were more than obvious. The hotel was offering a very friendly staff, a familiar atmosphere, cosy rooms and a cuisine that I consider one of the best in 15 years of travel from New York City to Abu Simbel.
The Sant Alphio is family owned, with the senior owner frequently visiting the hotel, taking care of the guest's and hotel's needs. Actually I pretty much appreciate his approach, making sure that the hotel remains a comfortable place for everybody.
Rooms and their balconies vary by size and according to your booking. Their interior is mostly classical in design, as is the exterior of the hotel. This means you will find plenty of classical furniture inside and even more statues and architectural ornaments outside here. The hotel's scenery merges elegantly with Mount Etna to the south, giving the hotel a breath-taking look from the lobby and entrance over the surrounding landscape.
Hotel and room cleaning was also excellent. Apartment got excellently cleaned and desinfected on a daily base. My thank you still goes here to the lady taking care of room 411 for her excellent services.
One of the major highlights of the hotel is it's excellent restaurant. Breakfast follows international standard with bread, cheese, salami, turkey, bacon, eggs and yoghurt. Latte macchiato, Coffee Americano (Black Coffee), Cappuccino, etc. are served as wake up drinks. Dinner is traditional Italian and consists of several dishes. Starting with bread, a pre-dinner will be served, that is followed by main dish and dessert.
May be one word to vegans and vegetarian here. Some flexibility is required here, as well as the will and ability to arrange with sea food.
The Sant Alphio offers a pool area as well as a hotel beach. The latter can be accessed within a three to five minute walk, depending on one's fitness. The beach and pool area are also quite clean and offer sunbeds that respect 2020's health recommendations (as do all it's facilities). Additionally, the outside loungers are cleaned on a daily base.
The hotel also lies close to Giardini Naxos' small Beach Promenade with some restaurants, souvenir shops, fashion stores and a supermarket. The latter can be accessed within ten minutes of walk.
As a summary, we can recommend the Sant alphio as a good family hotel that offers a 100 percent guarantee for good food, kind atmosphere and friendly services. So the thing I can say is thank you for 9 awesome days everyone of us enjoyed. See you again soon :-)

Amazing hotel with great spa and swimming pool. The rooms and overall look of the place inside and outside is fabulous.
The food was quite good.
I highly recommend you come here if you plan to come to giardini naxox.