a wonderful place where I enjoyed the best Sicilian cuisine and stunning views of Lake Pergusa. very courteous and excellent cleaning staff. acceptable price. recommended for copies and families. I could easily reach all major cities both east and west. Catania, Palermo, and it was easy to reach the nearby Sicily outlet for a relaxing shopping
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We stayed for five nights while visiting the surrounding areas. The room was very clean and spacious, had a nice view of the lake and track. We had a little problem with air conditioning, would have rather had the windows open at night as the air was cool, but barking dogs in the distant made sleeping with the windows open not an option for us. They would turn the A/C off after 11PM and the room would become very warm, they would say it was a faulty unit, but it was really their computer control of it.
Breakfast was great out by the pool each morning with a fresh cappuccino and cannoli pieces or fresh made rum baba.
We stayed at the hotel overnight on our travel from the Western to the Eastern coast of Sicily. The room was spacious and clean. The restaurant is ok but mainly for meat (don't bother to order sea food - it's all frozen).
The swimming pool is ok but the water was too hilly for kids to enjoy.
Mind that the hotel is located next to the lake and the place is full of mosquitos, flies, bees, etc. you will be offered anti repellents of course but never ever open windows!!!!!
Minor problem is the usual Sicilian laziness of staff unwilling to do anything at all but maybe it was just too hot....
I'm not one to write reviews and to be fair the hotel rooms, and bathrooms were quite large and clean by Italian standards. The food was quite good as well. There were some significant problems. We were there in middle June of 2013 and Sicily is quite warm with few trade winds to cool the place. So after a long day of sightseeing and hiking around we returned in the late afternoon to find the air conditioning was not working. They informed us that they would not turn it on until 7 pm. The room was an oven until that time. Our stay lasted 3 days and we avoided any attempts to relax in the room while there. This appears to be a family owned establishment and the apparent padrone is an elderly man with a rather unpleasant presentation, at least toward me when I asked for A/C.
Additionally the place appears to rely on a business in catering large parties as most rooms appeared empty during this busy season and the dinning room is extremely large. We were unfortunate to be there on a Saturday night and were looking forward to a night of rest after a busy day but they had two parties catered that day and we got very little sleep until late that evening.
In short it is a large and clean place but if you expect comfort and sleep, find another location.
We stayed three nights in this friendly lakeside hotel just outside Enna, and loved it. We chose it for ease of parking, and were very thankful we had, once we had driven into the steep narrow streets of Enna itself. The hotel is actually located in the nearby resort of Pergusa, overlooking a lake (the only natural lake in Sicily) and a little-used motor-racing circuit that - bizarrely - runs around its entire perimeter. (There is a one-way system in force for driving, anticlockwise around the lake, but it's only a couple of miles, through pretty woodland, and doesn't take long.)
The staff were delightful and attentive, the room comfortable with a view over swimming pool and lake. Unusually, the bathroom had a heated towel rail, which was brilliant for drying towels etc overnight.
We enjoyed the distant views of snowcapped Etna while waiting for the lift in the morning.
The restaurant was huge, and the first night was filled with a big local party of 100 people of all ages to celebrate "women's day". We ate the same fishy menu as them, and it was delicious. The other two evenings we ate in the hotel's pizzeria.
From the Riviera, we visited the hilltop castle of Sperlinga to the north, the wonderful Roman villa and its mosaics at Piazza Armerina to the south-east, and a curious little museum of railway and local customs in the tiny station of Villarosa, to the west. Enna is just about in the centre of Sicily, so it would have been quite possible to visit Cefalu on the north coast or Agrigento in the south from here.
We were out of season and so the Riviera hotel was very quiet while we were there, although we did have the pleasure of some vintage cars over the first weekend who were staying for a rally at the autodromo. The staff were very helpful, the hotel clean and comfortable, the pool excellent and the food in the restaurent good. We dined in every night. It was obviously a hotel more for visiting Italians than English which we enjoyed. We found it a great place to stay for visits to Enna, the Villa Romana and we even managed a day drive to Agrigento from here.
