Caiammari Boutique Hotel & Spa

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : Lovely, family-run property, with beautiful garden, two outdoor swimming pools and friendly staff, offering nice breakfast and help. If you have a car, it's conveniently located for short trips to Ortigia, Noto and Catania. We enjoyed our stay.

Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : We liked the staff who were very friendly and helpful. The pool area.
  : The breakfast was basic and unintnteresting. The room was dark. The parasols were torn and dirty. No mosquito screen, making it impossible to open the windows or door.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : If you are looking for some peace and quiet near to Syracuse then you can't get much more peaceful than Caiammari Boutique and Spa Hotel. With its immaculate gardens, two huge swimming pools, good sized rooms and absolutely lovely and anazing staff, it really is somewhere to unwind and relax. The breakfast is very good and includes homemade cakes made by the owners fair hands - it's work it just for the cake! The restaurant offers a limited number of anti pasta, first course and mains. All were a very good standard and traditional with a modern twist. As the menu doesn't change, if you are staying longer than say 3 days it is advisable to start to look outside the hotel for dinner options. The restaurant is closed one day per week, so again it will be necessary to leave to hotel (although the owner volunteered to come in an cook pizza for those guests that had no car). This leads me to my next recommendation - transport. The property is close to Syracusa and Ortiga but is a car/taxi journey away. This includes some of the nearby restaurants. A taxi ordered via the hotel is 25 one way, a taxi return from the rank was 35. All taxis come from Syracusa so its roughly the same cost regardless of destination. For the odd night, it's OK, but to do this for several nights becomes a little costly, hence why a car is thoroughly recommended. Regarding the state of roads and fly tipping, which you may have read in other reviews, this sadly is endemic across Sicily in non-tourist areas - even the road to the British War Cemetery is littered with rubbish. This is way beyond the control of the hotel and they should not be held responsible for something out of their control. It certainly does not detract from the property itself. Finally bring some mosquito repellent - the little rascals are across Sicily - inland, Mount Etna, the seaside - they love the taste of tourists.
  : I think it would be nice if the chef changed the dinner menu more regularly. The food was fantastic, but the menu limited. A stay of more than 4 days would result in having to choose the same thing. Of course you can go out, and we did, but some guests who did not have cars were a little stuck.