Hotel building interesting old Sicilian House with pleasant old world feel with interesting features. Breakfast rather poor effort with...
Necessaria più attenzione nella pulizia del bagno e assolutamente rinnovare i materassi.
everything OK, dimensions of the douche were very marginal. We got information that they will improve the douches. I will recommend...
Frühstück war sehr dürftig, aber aufnachfrage bekam man noch Brötchen. Käse und Wurst fehlten. Caffe lecker.
Un peu déçu par le petit-déjeuner, ce n'était pas le buffet auquel je pensais.
General Description
The ‘La Vecchia Palma’ Hotel is located in the historical center of Catania, in the renowned Via Etnea, a favorable location in relation to the town’s places of interest and just a stone’s throw from the subway and bus connections.
Created by restructuring an historical villa of the 1800s, the hotel offers a refined setting, the atmosphere enriched by original frescos and stuccos in the classical Sicilian Baroque style.
Highlighted and recommended by many renowned tourist guides, the La Vecchia Palma Hotel is ideal for short or long stays of comfort and absolute wellness, offering 12 finely furnished rooms, an American Bar and a small meeting hall.
Check Availability
The hotel has 12 diversely furnished and decorated rooms, some with splendid frescos.
Each room provides thermal soundproof windows, plasma LCD satellite color TV, Sky Gold Primafila pay TV, CD/DVD player, air conditioning, central heating, direct line telephone, electronic safe, Wireless Internet connection, bar fridge and private bathroom.
Rooms available: Twin, Double, Triple with Shared Bathroom, Twin for single occupancy with Shared Bathroom.
Services included in the price
- Air-conditioning in public areas
- Children’s holiday facilities / Children’s holidays
- Internet Point
- Internet connection
- Left-luggage Facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Pets are Welcome
- Safe-deposit box
- Small Pets are Welcome
- TV lounge
- Tourist Information Offices
Restaurant and bar
The buffet breakfast, with cafeteria service, is served between 7:30 and 9:30 AM.
Room service is available on request.
The American Bar is open until 11 PM, for enjoying moments of relaxation sipping a drink or an aperitif.
Description of Conference and Meeting Facilities
The Bar hall is available for the organization of small or business meetings.
Services available for a fee
- Banquet / Reception Hall
- Bar
- Car Hire
- Coffee Lounge
- Fax Service
- Internal parking in private garage
- Lounge bar
- Photocopying Service
- Quick Check-In and Check-Out
Features of the hotel
- Business Hotel
- Family Rooms
- Historic building
- Recently renovated
- Rooms for Non-Smokers
- Rooms for Smokers
- Soundproofed Rooms
Location of the hotel
How to reach the hotel
By train
From the Catania Central Station in Piazza Papa Giovanni XXIII (about 2/3 km from the La Vecchia Palma Hotel) you can take one of several buses traveling to Via Etnea (line 429, 432, 449 or 1-4) stopping right in front of the hotel.
Alternatively you can take the Subway to the Borgo stop, Borgo station is located directly beside the hotel.
By plane
From Catania – Fontanarossa International Airport (about 7/8 km from the hotel) the Alibus 457 goes to Catania Central Station.
For those coming from the airport: follow Stradale Primosole, turn right into Via San Giuseppe Alla Rena, then right again into Asse Dei Servizi and then right once again into SP53var, continuing on Via Domenico
Tempio. Take Via Cristoforo Colombo, turn right into Via Mulino Santa Lucia, turn left along Via Ionica, turn right into Via Alcalà, then right again into Via Dusmet; when reaching Piazza dei Martiri turn right into Via Rabbordone. Continue along Via Francesco Crispi, turn left into Via Umberto then turn right at the intersection with Via Etnea, continuing up to n. 668.
Nearby points of interest
Amusements
- Corsaro 570 m Via San Nicolò Al Borgo, 49 - Catania
- Ariston 670 m Via Balduino, 17 - Catania
- Nuova Arena Adua 670 m Largo Carmelo Mendola - Catania
- Capitol 1.12 km Via Vicenza, 14 - Catania
- Excelsior 1.13 km Via Giuseppe De Felice, 21 - Catania
- Tiffany 1.18 km Vico Stromboli, 16 - Catania
- Don Bosco 1.25 km Viale Mario Rapisardi, 56 - Catania
- Arena Argentina 1.26 km Via Vanasco, 10 - Catania
- Ambasciatori 270 m Via Eleonora D'Angiò, 17 - Catania
- Piccolo Teatro 710 m Via Federico Ciccaglione, 29 - Catania
- Don Bosco 1.25 km Viale Mario Rapisardi, 56 - Catania
- Metropolitan 1.33 km Via Sant'Euplio - Catania
- Stabile 1.40 km Via Giuseppe Fava - Catania
- Brancati 1.73 km Via Sabotino, 4 - Catania
- Musco 1.81 km Via Umberto, 312 - Catania
- Massimo Bellini 2.05 km Piazza Vincenzo Bellini, 21 - Catania
- Bowling Centre 1.08 km Viale Regina Margherita, 10 - Catania
- La Plaja 3.98 km
- Stadio Cibali Angelo Massimino 1.29 km Piazza Vincenzo Spedini - Catania
- Stadio Comunale La Piana 4.75 km
- Muscle E Fitness 360 m Via Francesco Pensavalle, 12 - Catania
- A.S. Fitness Club (Palestra) 430 m Via Paolo Bentivoglio, 30 - Catania
- Piscina Palestra Poseidon 540 m Via Grazia Deledda, 15 - Catania
- Antares 610 m Via Piermaria Rosso Di San Secondo, 16 - Catania
- Energy 870 m Via Verona, 19 - Catania
- Despar, Via Verona 880 m Via Verona, 17 - Catania
- Your Place 1.20 km Via Guglielmo Oberdan, 116 - Catania
- Altair Club 1.21 km Via Fiamingo, 7 - Catania
- Body Energy 1.47 km Via Medina, 3 - Catania
- Massimino 1.71 km Via Dell'Esperanto, 2 - Catania
- A.S. Fitness 1.90 km Via Gorizia, 36 - Catania
- Galactus 2000 2.19 km Viale Alvise Cadamosto, 11 - Catania
- Mondo Ginnico 2.32 km Via Delle Medaglie D'Oro, 6 - Catania
- Sport E Fitness 2.84 km Via Scilla, 9 - Catania
Car and Travel
- Etna Rent Car 30 m Via Passo Gravina, 17 - Catania
- Europcar 660 m Viale Raffaello Sanzio, 22 - Catania
- Hertz 1.13 km Via Pietro Toselli, 16 - Catania
- Maggiore 1.26 km Piazza Giovanni Verga, 41 - Catania
- Euromobil Vecar 1.27 km Viale Vittorio Veneto, 60 - Catania
- Traversa I Sant'Alfio 240 m Traversa I Sant'Alfio - Catania
- Piazza Aldo Moro 540 m Via Torino - Catania
- Via Ala 630 m Via Ala - Catania
- Via Caronda 650 m Via Caronda - Catania
- Via Cifali 1.06 km Via Cifali - Catania
- Via Modena 1.07 km Via Modena - Catania
- Via Gustavo Vagliasindi 1.15 km Via Gustavo Vagliasindi - Catania
- Piazza Giovanni Verga 1.27 km Via Francesco Crispi - Catania
- Autorimessa Italia 40 m Via Etnea, 561 - Catania
- Via Empedocle 100 m Via Empedocle, 119 - Catania
- Green Parking 140 m Via Caronda, 314 - Catania
- Via Quieta 320 m Via Quieta, 24 - Catania
- Sostare 400 m Via Proserpina, 35 - Catania
- Via Caronda 440 m Via Caronda, 470 - Catania
- Roma 450 m Via Novara, 18 - Catania
- Autorimessa Gioeni 520 m Via Ardizzone Gioeni, 30 - Catania
- Villa Bellini 1.33 km Via Domenico Cimarosa - Catania
Main Buildings
- Consolato Onorario Belgio 510 m Via Milo, 9 - Catania
- Vice Consolato Onorario Francia 840 m Via Vincenzo Giuffrida, 73 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Senegal 900 m Via Monaca Santa, 19 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Guatemala 1.07 km Viale Xx Settembre, 76 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Germania 1.10 km Via Milano, 10 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Sri Lanka 1.36 km Via Francesco Crispi, 239 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Gran Bretagna 1.40 km Via Giuseppe Verdi, 53 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Albania 1.56 km Via Licciardi, 13 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Malta 1.84 km Corso Martiri Della Libertà, 14 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Grecia 1.97 km Viale Ionio, 134 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Paesi Bassi 2.21 km Via Anzalone, 7 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Finlandia 2.21 km Via Anzalone, 7 - Catania
- Consolato Onorario Svizzera 2.37 km Viale Alcide De Gasperi, 151 - Catania
- Garibaldi-Pronto Soccorso 1.21 km Via Asmara - Catania
- Garibaldi 1.37 km Via Fabio Filzi - Catania
- Garibaldi-Pronto Soccorso 1.37 km Via Fabio Filzi - Catania
- Cannizzaro-Pronto Soccorso 3.74 km
- Cannizzaro 3.74 km
- Cannizzaro-Pronto Soccorso 4.01 km Sp166 , 829 - Santa Maria Della Carruba
- Cannizzaro 4.01 km Sp166 , 829 - Santa Maria Della Carruba
- Accademia Di Belle Arti 1.90 km Via Antonio Di Sangiuliano, 257 - Catania
- Università Di Catania 2.01 km Piazza Dell'Università, 2 - Catania
- Vincenzo Bellini 50 m Via Paolo Lopis - Catania
- Tondo Gioeni 200 m Via Etnea, 782 - Catania
- Vincenzo Bellini 1.87 km Via Antonio Di Sangiuliano, 307 - Catania
- Biblioteca 2.01 km Via Galatioto, 163 - Catania
What to see
- Sant'Agata Al Borgo 390 m Piazza Cavour - Catania
- Orto Botanico 670 m Via Antonino Longo, 19 - Catania
- Santa Maria Della Mercede 830 m Via Caronda, 100 - Catania
- Villa Bellini 960 m Piazza Roma - Catania
- Crocifisso Dei Miracoli 1.30 km Via Umberto - Catania
- Basilica Del Carmine 1.38 km Piazza Carlo Alberto - Catania
- Cripta S.Gaetano Alle Grotte 1.48 km Via Galvagna - Catania
- Tempio Di Sant'Euplio 1.51 km Via Sant'Euplio - Catania
- San Domenico 1.53 km Piazza San Domenico - Catania
- Palazzo Paternò Del Toscano 1.58 km Piazza Stesicoro - Catania
- La Patria 1.59 km Piazza Stesicoro - Catania
- Fori 1.60 km Via Etnea - Catania
- Bastione Del Santo Carcere 1.61 km Piazza Santo Carcere - Catania
- San Biagio 1.61 km Piazza Stesicoro - Catania
- Sant'Agata Al Carcere 1.62 km Piazza Santo Carcere - Catania
- Chiesa Della Purità 1.68 km Piazza Sant'Agata La Vetere - Catania
- Museo Di Zoologia 1.19 km Via Lago Di Nicito - Catania
- Arte Nuvo 1.33 km Via Giaconia, 2 - Catania
- Emilio Greco 2.12 km Piazza San Francesco D'Assisi, 3 - Catania
- Museo Civico Di Catania 2.43 km Piazza Federico Di Svevia - Catania
- Museo Del Mare 2.83 km Piazza Ognina, 15 - Catania
- Azienda Provinciale Per Il Turismo 1.36 km Via Domenico Cimarosa, 10 - Catania
Transport
- Aeroporto Di Catania 5.27 km Catania
- Aeroporto Tito Minniti 79.95 km San Pietro Di Caridà (Reggio Calabria)
- Catania Centrale 2.23 km Catania
- Catania Ognina 2.98 km
- Catania Acquicella 3.28 km Acquicella Stazione - Catania
- Metro-Borgo 40 m Via Etnea - Catania
- Metro-Giuffrida 770 m Corso Delle Province - Catania
- Metro-Italia 1.27 km Via Firenze - Catania
- Catania/Stazione Marittima 2.75 km Catania
Hotel La Vecchia Palma: Reservation Conditions
Check Out: 12:00
Payment Methods:
Visa, American Express, Euro/Master Card, Bancomat ATM Card, Diners Club, Cash, Bankcard, Carte Blanche, Carta Si, Maestro, JCB, Australian Bank Card, Eurocheck, Carte Bleue
No cancellation penalties will be charged if notification is given at least 2 days prior to arrival.
In case of cancellations made after this date or no-shows, the first night will be charged to the credit card provided.
No advance payment required; this room will be paid for directly at the hotel.
Note: these are the Standard conditions and may vary according to the season, type of room and rate selected. Please pay close attention to the details of the rate selected when making a reservation.
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