Royal Maniace Hotel

The view was amazing (we had a room with the sea view on the second floor and a small balcony). The room was nice. The service was good. The breakfast is a small choice but it was maybe the best breakfast I had out of 7 hotels at Sicily during my current stay (17 days). The bed was OK enough for sleeping with a comfort (despite the pillows are terrible fake synthetics, as anywhere else though, but this I dismiss as i always bring with me my own nice high quality feather pillow everywhere, when I stay in some hotels).

The beach in front of the hotel is terrible, as well as the stairs that goes to it. It is a public beach, it looks dirty, it is a lot of big and small stones so you cannot access the sea so easy (but I was swimming anyway a little bit every morning). This beach is not equipped for relaxation, that is for sure. I might say that you can consider there is no beach at all, you just have a great view from the balcony, that's it. The small in the bathroom was horrible. The administrator of the hotel said that it depends on the weather and on the sea, but I think that was a lie. The bathroom small awful during all the days of our stay, there was no changes at this matter while we were there, and the weather was fine, and the sea was quiet. I think that was some problem with sewerage (canalization). There is no place to park a car anywhere near, so you have to do it very far on a big parking (if there will be some free spaces, which is not always a case). You can walk to this Parking like 20 minutes by the feet, or 5-8 minutes drive with the local city shuttle (1 euro cost), but you have to wait until it arrives. There is no really good restaurant very close to the hotel (for this you have to walk a bit far), and the ones that were close are too average I would say.