Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel, Taormina Mare
Hotel · Messina
Via Nazionale, 137, 98039 Taormina ME, Italy
Highlights
Beachfront luxury hotel with open-air dining, private beach & pool
Beachfront luxury hotel with open-air dining, private beach & pool
"Perched on Taormina’s Bay of Mazzarò, Villa Sant’Andrea felt more like an elegant family home than a hotel, with rooms cleverly stocked with children’s games and family suites offering separate kids’ rooms and terraces overlooking the bay. I enjoyed the refined coastal decor and the kids’ club (ages four to 12) where pottery painting and beach treasure hunts are run while parents can linger over beef carpaccio or seafood linguini at Sant’Andrea restaurant—or book an early tots’ supper on the Bar Sant’Andrea terrace and hire a babysitter to dine fully uninterrupted. " - Lauren Burvill
"Villa Sant'Andrea, a Belmond Hotel, is a luxurious, dream-come-true destination with a lush garden on one side and the Bay of Mazzarò on the other. The hotel offers signature suites with private pools, dedicated host services, and exclusive dining destinations like Brizza." - Travel + Leisure Editors
"Currently closed for the season through March of 2024—springtime in Taormina being well worth the wait, our readers agree—this Belmond entry is lauded in large part for its sublime location and the views afforded as a result. The villa was originally built in 1919 by a family of aristocrats to serve as their private retreat, and the intimacy of such a setting fabulously survived the property's transformation into a hotel come the 1950s. There are, of course, modern splashes: a complimentary shuttle brings guests into Taormina proper in around 15 minutes, with a similarly free-with-admission, White Lotus-style boat excursion during the summer months. Onsite dining restaurant Brizza, which can accommodate just 12 guests at a time, gets special mentions from our readers, with one writing wistfully, “A dinner at Brizza, barefoot...”" - Nicholas DeRenzo, CNT Editors
"Originally built in 1919 as an English aristocrat's summer home and now a luxury Belmond hotel that still feels like a private residence, this seaside resort offers elegant lounges, cozy rooms across its 71 accommodations, direct access to a pebbly beach, a small heated pool, and decorative ceramic Moorish-head sculptures reminiscent of those seen in the show." - Bailey Berg
"In the Bay of Mazzaro, accessible by a cable car, we rented sun beds at the Villa Sant’Andrea, where we swam in the ocean and ate a seaside lunch of linguini and seafood." - Caren Osten Gerszberg
