릴레 & 샤토 로칸다 돈 세라피노

This is a lovely hotel in the heart of Ibla. The rooms are clean, comfortable and quiet (apart from the noise from the street, mostly from people passing by). Our room had a bedroom with en suite shower room, toilet and washbasin and there was a bath, comfortable seating area, kettle and coffee machine up some steps. The staff were all friendly and very helpful. Breakfast was freshly prepared and excellent. There is a parking service which made life much easier as parking can be a problem.

This hotel building, carved into the stone, survived the 1693 earthquake and is over seven hundred years old. Josepi, on his second day at work, was an enormous help in parking my car, which was a midsize MG SUV. He went over and above what was expected. Breakfast was a joy with great staff, that would make you coffee exactly how I wanted it and kept it coming without having to ask. Sparkling wine awaited you in the cavern-like separate sitting area upon arrival after a stressful drive, before checking in. Linda and Eugenio gave us incredible service making reservations at restaurants for us and advice on visiting Modica, Scicli, and Ragusa. Linda phoned a restaurant for me when I thought that I had left my hat behind. The atmosphere of the hotel more than made up for the somewhat tight quarters of our room which could be accessed from the street, or by going up a spiral staircase cut int0 the stone behind the front desk. Service at it’s finest.