ITALY Readers's Tips - Good evening, hodanjjp Over 20 years ago we took a 9 day 7 night trip around Sicily, escorted by CIT (www.ttours.mThe trip started in Palermo, then Agrigento, Siracusa, and Taormina with departure from Sicily from Catania, almost the same are they now run, but in the opposite direction.We felt it very well done and caused us to return to Sicily on four later occasions on our own, however normally staying close to the Palermo and Taormina areas..l our hotels with this tour were at the Jolly Hotel Chain (with pools .in searching within Sicilian escourted tours such as www.icilian,net and Google Ran across Gate 1 travel, which has two tours of Sicily one in the better hotels running about 2,000 air and land and the other being with lesser standard hotels for 999.It sounded very reasonable and I proceeded to check out the hotels on Trip Advisor.m.he Mercure Palermo Central is located about two blocks nw of Port and via Francesco Crispi in area with shops and restaurants, very busy, the Hotel Akrabello is located near the temples and SW of the main town of Agrigento and finally the Sant Alphio Garden Hotel has mixed reviews, but lately a lot of tour companys are using Guardini Naxos locations as it is down along the water from Taromina.Might look into this and also check out these hotels with Cheap Hotel Guide and etc. We on our first trip into Palermo, rented a limo with english speaking driver to drive our relatives outside Palermo, we did not speak IT and it worked out very well, arrangements can be made thru the concierge of your hotel, suggest bring a bouquet will be received very well might also help to telephone the relatives a day or two before your intended visit.hey also are not ones for going out to ristorantes, prefer to eat with their guests at home..ichard of Lagrange Park, Il.

We are going to Palermo tomorrow.ow much should a taxi be from Palermo airport to Grand Hotel et Des Palmes Good morning, Just refering to Tripadvisor.m, there were negative comments on taxi transportation from Palermo Intl'.nto the city, would strongly suggest you call the HOTEL DES PALMES and have them arrange for a limo with driver to meet you at the airport to pick you up for this trip.ast experiences with limo's has been just slightly higher than taxis, in all cases taxi or limo know exactly what the charges will be, a tip of 10% should be sufficent. Richard of LaGrange Park, Il.

Hodanjjp, We are going to Sicily on September 27 We fly from Rome to Catania, then take a bus to Taormina where we will join a tour conducted by Brendan Tours.It is only seven days, but that it all we wanted.It starts in Taormina and includes Syracuse, Agrigento, Palermo, and Monreale.We will have time to go to Mt.tna on our own while in Taormina.It is reasonably priced.We chose the land only option, since we wanted to spend another week in Italy going to other places on our own. Terence Vinson Houston, TX

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