La Casa di Pippinitto is an old country house located between the green of citrus plantation, right by the feet of Volcano Etna and at a short distance from the sea.
As a family handled enterprise, who's main activity is agriculture, La Casa di Pippinitto grants you and your children full satisfaction of all needs, both in case of active or relaxing tourism. It's location, on a altitude of about 250 form sea level, assures cool nights and fresh shadow also during the hottest Sicilian summers. Silence and full respect of privacy is the keyword of our hospitality.
La Casa di Pippinitto offers you tailor-made accommodation and services, in case you are travelling alone, in small groups or with your family.
The detached house La casa di Pippinitto, was the home of Pippinitto the Farmer, and it's composed by two little double bedrooms, one big living room, an equipped kitchen, a toilet with shower. It also has a private and intimate terrace with sea-view.
The house is equipped with ceiling fan in the bedroom, refrigerator and TV.
The apartment La Casa di Papà is composed by a big double bedroom, one living room, an equipped kitchen, a toilet with shower. The house is equipped with ceiling fan in the bedroom, refrigerator and TV.
The room La Stanza dell'Amore is a romantic wide suite for two persons: the room as indipendent entrance and is equipped with ceiling fan, refrigerator and TV. It also has the use of a kitchen to share with the guests of La stanza di Sotto.
The room La Stanza di Sotto is a bright and big double room. It has independent entrance and is equipped with ceiling fan, refrigerator and TV. It also has the use of a kitchen to share with the guests of La stanza di Sotto.
All fornitures, both in apartments and in rooms, are old typical Sicilian countryside style.
Internet connection on wide band available. Spending time at La casa di Pippinitto picking up fruits or biological vegetables from the home potagery is one of the favourite activities of the guests of this agriturismo, that already works 10 years and is well known and appreciated expecially in Holland, Belgium, France, Spain. Italian Language courses are handled by a teacher of Catania's University's School of Italian as a Foreign Language. Cooking courses also provided on request.
At a feet distance you can reach the peasant village of Santa Venerina or the Museo del Palmento (Wine making Museum). An horse riding club is very close and offers all kind of excursions for beginners or advanced horse riders.
Due to it's strategic position, La casa di Pippinitto is a natural departure point for trekking excursion on Volcano Etna. Here you can get all infos about tracks of different kinds. All water sports can be practised by the seaside, at distance of 10 minutes by car.
All eastern part of Sicily is easy to reach from this strategical site, situated in the middle between Catania and Taormina.
Spoken languages: English, Russian, Spanish.
Pets welcome
Green area for children.
Booking information
To reserve a service on the web portal Volcanoetna.com you have different types of payment.
Credit card, through guaranteed save server from Pay Pal (see Security and Privacy policy)
Bank
You will pay only if the service requested is confirmed.
The payment previews a deposit of 30% of the total price of the reservation as guarantee. You'll pay the rest directly to the operator of the service when you'll arrive.
In case of modifications or cancellation of your reservations read the terms of cancellation below.
Check-in: From hours 10,00, without timetable limits.
Check-out: It is possible to leave the rooms within hours 14.00.
All the services on the voice:"Services available" are included in the price.
The breakfast is included in the rate. When it is not included it will be specified on the Single voice Only accommodation
The paid services will be indicated at the moment of the reservation.
The transfers from/to the airport are not included in the price; the prices are available upon request.
The services offer inside the web portal Volcanoetna.com are the result of a confirmed availabilities offered by the operators. The operators accept the full responsibility for the availability of the services.
In case of cancellations will be applied a fixed price of 1,50€ as Agency cost and a price predetermined by the operators in base on the number of days of warning between the communication and the reservation.
The operators apply the following conditions:
For cancellations within 72 hours from the date of arrival previewed in the reservation.
In case of lacked arrival or cancellation beyond such date it will come debited one night of penalty.
(Note: These conditions can vary in case of reservations in high season periods)
t's possible to cancel the reservation without penalities within 3 days from the date of arrival by means of:
Your personal page.
Via fax to number +39 095 335837
Mail contact directed to the operator through the form present in its web page
In the demand you have to identify:
ID Reservation (In the voucher).
Mail address used in the reservation.
Name and last name used in the reservation.
The cancellation need to be confirmed by the operator within 24 hours. In contrary case, you have to send another cancellation demand.
Fees
Indicative prices
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Room type
Breakfast
Half board
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Full Board
High season
Double bedroom with bath
30 €
Low season
Double bedroom with bath
35 €
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Services
Bike hire
Horse-riding
Parking
recreation ground
Garden
Sea view
Rooms
Crib ( on request )
Bath with shower
Dryer
Fax
Security and privacy
We value your privacy. The protection of your privacy is important. Therefore we have decided to respect in full to the top European and Italian laws on Privacy (art. 13 of the D.Lgs. 30 june 2003 n. 196 (Privacy Code) and the E.U. Directive 95/46/CE in matter of protection of the personal data and the Directive 2002/58/CE on the protection of the personal data in the electronic communications) and ulterior systems to guarantee your security.
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The payments security is guaranteed by the trusted system of Pay Pal, society of the group eBay, leader in online payments solutions. They allow you to make purchases on the web in all security. Their save server use a certifyed system of cryptography (arranges SSL with key to 128 bit that makes that confidential information, as an example the numbers of the credit cards, without access to thirds party) that guarantees the data transmitted against the Hackers. This system is Sure because your personal information wont be shared with the vendor.