Seven Rooms Villadorata
Style Gargoyles and grandeur
Setting Noto’s historic heart
Once home to a prince, Seven Rooms Villadorata in Noto makes you feel like royalty: frescoed ceilings, ornate tiles and high windows add a stately air to this honey-hued Baroque beauty.
Need to know
- Rooms Five, including three suites.
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Rates
Double rooms from $281.99 (€218), excluding tax at 10 per cent.
The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€218) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
- More details Rates include a buffet breakfast.
- Facilities Terrace, library and free WiFi throughout. In rooms, flatscreen TV, air-conditioning, free bottled water and Ortigia bath products.
- Check-out 11am, but flexible for €50. Earliest check-in, 2.30pm.
- Children The hotel can’t provide cots, but extra beds can be added for 50 per cent of the room rate. A babysitter can be organised with a day’s notice (€15 an hour).
- Also Pets are allowed, but mustn’t be left unattended in the bedrooms. Smoking is permitted on balconies and the terrace. Two-night minimum stay.
- Hotel closed 1 November to 20 December 2011 and 6 January to 31 March 2012.
Food and drink at Seven Rooms Villadorata
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Hotel restaurant
There’s no restaurant at this boutique B&B, but you will be treated to a wholesome spread of fresh fruit, yoghurts, cereal, meats, cheese and pastries in the morning.
- Dress code Crisp cotton and linen to keep cool as the Sicilian temperatures soar. (If you're here in winter, stay ahead of the game with cashmere and a raincoat.)
- Top table Breakfast out on the patio if it’s sunny, or in the library if it’s wet and windy.
- Last orders Breakfast is served from 8.30am until 10am.
- Room service None.
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Hotel bar
There isn’t a bar, just a white Smeg fridge tucked away next to the library stocked with free-for-all still, sparkling and flavoured mineral water. There’s also a Nespresso machine for endless espressos.
Seven Rooms Villadorata 53 via Cavour, Noto, Sicily, 96017
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A set of room scents by Dr Vranjes, as used in the hotel
In the know
Our favourite rooms
The name might be confusing – there are only five bedrooms. The other two rooms of the eponymous seven are the sitting room and library. Each named after a wind, we loved Austro (wind of the south) most: three enormous French doors open onto a balcony overlooking the golden rooftops and rolling countryside. It was the prince’s bedroom and all of his gilded tiles and frescoes have been restored. Schirone (wind of the south-west) is smaller, but the views are just as good.
Packing tips
Leave the beach towels and big brollies at home – the hotel has all beachy bases covered. There’s a marine reserve nearby, so don’t forget your snorkelling gear.
Also
Noto is home to Corrado Costanzo, a dolceria on Via Spaventa that is often said to make the world’s best ice-cream (+39 0931 835243).
