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Reviews of Hotel Ognina Catania

Hotel Ognina Catania
Via Messina, 626-628, Catania, Sicily

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 52 out of 263 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 125 out of 263 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 59 out of 263 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 21 out of 263 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 263 reviews" "

7.8/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location
Not overpriced hotel, well located.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The facility is good but the bathroom is smell, due to sewer smell
Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

Edmund

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Staff were superior except for the women in the white dress, she was grouchy. Jessica and Alphonso were excellent as was the breakfast man and the cleaning lady on our floor.
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2019

6/10 Okay

john

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hotel Ognina is conveniently located near some of the nicest parts of Catania with a generous and competent staff.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Robert, Sydney, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
We arrived in the middle of a very bad storm - flooding etc. Staff very helpful and friendly during visit. Location is good. Romms are a bit small but fine.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Dario

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Ok stay in a dated hotel
Easy location to move around, nice staff,average breakfast, the room needs to be update, i had to change two rooms because the shower was not working properly.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Very noisy, not very clean and very small. The hotel is not in tbe best location- over an hour walk to anything woryh seeing. Located next to a fuel carriage way.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

K, Japan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Staffs are very kind and respond our requests promptly
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

6/10 Okay

Mejren

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Clean room but below standard service
Good clean room but the shower area is too small Not alot verity of food at breakfast One of the employees was rude to a level that even if you greeted her she didn’t respond, she needs a course in how to treat a customer no bell boy at the hotel There is a room to enhance the lobby services and decorations
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

chl, bern

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very helpful staff and very clean. Perfect for to explore the east of sicily. Good for familys.
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Small room and bathroom, the shower can barely fit a big size man. The location of the hotel is on a busy one way street which make it difficult to use your car to get around. They meed an ice machine.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

Paul, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quick
I came in and within 2 minutes was lying on my bed watching TV
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Philip

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2018

2/10 Terrible

Deborah

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
photo on website is rear. Gas station is in front
Got up early to shower and get to the airport and there was no water. The guy at the front desk didn’t know what was going on. Needless to say we had a 20 hour trip home without showering. That really stunk!!!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Josianne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Steve, Lancaster Great Britain

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautifully situated overlooking fishing harbour.
Beautifully situated overlooking fishing harbour with really fresh seafood and one of the rare places near Catania you can actually see the sea! [A busy rail line totally blocks access] Five mins walk from Railway
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Lovely staff
The hotel staff are all fantastic and really helpful but the hotel needs to be upgraded.

8/10 Good

Yvonne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Basic but clean hotel, will go again.
We practically slept & had breakfast only there. Our room was facing the petrol station side, so missed the sea view. However a very good thing is that they have parking space.

4/10 Poor

nigel

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disappointing
The staff on reception were very good and very helpful.Although the outside of the hotel looks newly decorated and appealing the inside is very much in need of renovation. Our room was old and needed refurbishing. You could hear everything through the wall and worst of all the toilet and bidet had not been cleaned before our stay.

10/10 Excellent

irfan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good breakfast
Location not great, on a noisy street and not on the sea as the picture depicted. The breakfast was very good.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Hotel was tired and noisy. Breakfast poor. Not a tourist more for business

8/10 Good

Brandon, PA

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel in area
there for business

8/10 Good

Jan, Bethesda

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Enjoy the water views
Great views and helpful staff. Not exactly easy to find based upon the street address but worth looking for.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel ognigna
Brill hotel and surrounding harbour - beer costs 1.5 euro at harbour!

8/10 Good

ChoWa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good place to stay at the edge of the city
On the edge of the city and about 30-45min walk to the town center. Free parking is a big plus. Staff are friendly

4/10 Poor

Nina, San Diego, California

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not what we expected.
This was our last night in Sicily. Room smelled badly of smoke, bathroom blow dryer was literally from the 60's and did nothing, barely any air coming out. The hotel was under construction and the room we were in had that view with scaffolding in front of our window. The pictures on hotels.com are not what we experienced.

10/10 Excellent

Monika and Liam, Dublin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We really enjoyed our stay Hotel Catania Ognina. The hotel overlooks a small picturesque fishing harbour and is within walking distance of a few restaurants and cafe bars. We found the staff to be very pleasant and helpful, especially Jessica who helped us organise a trip to Mount Etna. A good breakfast is offered consisting of cold meats, cheeses, scrambled eggs and sausage with a nice selection of cakes for those who are not weight watching.

6/10 Okay

Robert, Malta

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A place to sleep
If you need a hotel only for sleeping this is the best value hotel one can find. First this hotel is old and in need of renovation. Breakfast is not good but for the money you pay you cannot complain. I stayed 3 nights and skipped the breakfast after trying it the first day. I prefer a good coffee and a good brioche from local cafeteria. The only complain i can make is the internet. We are in 2014 internet is every where. You have to pay 7 euro each day that I paid and i dont complain about that but you can use only the account for just 1 device that is not good. If you are 2 in the room and you need to use the internet you have to buy two accounts. Even if you disconect from a device you cannot enter with another device. Overall the hotel is good if you are most of the day outside visiting sicily. if you need internet this is not the hotel for you bacause if you add the fee of internet you can find better deals else where.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Nikolaj

Liked: Room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Susan, Kettering, Northants United Kingdom

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very Comfortable Hotel
Hotel itself was very nice. Lovely views over the harbour and sea. Nice bars and restaurants nearby walking distance. Staff friendly and helpful. Room was cleaned every day and clean sheets, towels etc. Air conditioning was a God send! Breakfast was fantastic choice of food from cakes to toast, cereals, anything you could want. The location was great overlooking harbour and sea views from window. Would have liked a balcony though but didnt matter as there was a lovely open air bar just 2 minutes walk overlooking harbour. Easy access to our favourite places, Acicastello and not too far from train station to Taormina. My partner is from Catania so was easy pick up point for all his family from various parts of Catania. All in all would come again. Only negative was no coffee/tea making facilities in the room but there was fridge with soft drinks etc. Very reasonable rates with the plane tickets as well. Would rate it 9 out 10. We like walking so was very nice walking along sea front all the way to Acicastello and easy walk to train station too.

6/10 Okay

John, Morristown, NJ

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Idea Hotel Catania Ognina, Catania, Sicily
Overall not a bad place and worth the price. Nice breakfast and free parking is a plus. The room size was on the small side. The bathroom and especially the shower was on the tiny side. It was too easy to lean on the shower faucet handle on shut off the water.

8/10 Good

Dee, Celbridge Ireland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
hotel Idea Ognina catania
Hotel is good value and comfortable, views are spectacular and staff helpful , this is our second stay here and we would go back again. Best feature is the Breakfast.

6/10 Okay

dariwsz, Chicago

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
crazy , chaotic city
good location , free secure parking - rented a car stolen the next day , good breakfast IDEA hotels network on Sicily previously belonged to the Holiday Inn, samll rooms

4/10 Poor

Andy, Newcastle UK

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Not recommended
Although the location and standard of the hotel were OK it was spoilt completely as we were unable to get any sleep due to lack of air conditioning which is switched off from October onwards. This meant opening the windows which gave the mosquitos a free dinner, our noses a good layering of pollution and our hears a cacophony of tooting horns and screeching tyres. Avoid if you want some sleep!.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Room comfort
Hotel Ognina
Good hotel, but on a busy road. Good rooms (I was given a sea view) but those at the front might be a bit noisy. Restaurant not open in the evening. Good alternative to staying in Catania. Good for a few nights but not ideal for a conventional one or two week holiday due to busy location and lack of pool, gardens and outside space.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Ottima posizione
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2020

6/10 Okay

Monica, Bologna

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Ottima posizione per chi vuole andare a mare, Albergo abbastanza pulito ma interni molto datati. Colazione sufficiente
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

6/10 Okay

Antonino

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2020

6/10 Okay

Emilio, Saluzzo ( Cuneo)

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Sono circa dieci anni che vado in questo albergo quando vado in Sicilia e mi sono sempre trovato bene
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

CATREVAULT

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

4/10 Poor

NICOLAS

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
REGULAR
REGULAR, HELADERA ROTA Y DUCHA TAPADA.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Dildar

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

6/10 Okay

Yves, Nîmes FRance

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Bon hôtel et accueil sympatique. Hélas pas d'ascenceur et petit déjeuner léger.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019