Hotel Santa Lucia le Sabbie d'Oro

Don't be fooled by the negative comments about the hotel. I was with my family for seven nights, breakfast and dinner. First of all, the hotel is located in an excellent location, close to the big market and close to the town of Cefalu. Rooms with a view of the sea and the city are perfect, the view is perfect. The room is clean and we had new towels every day. The food is like in the best restaurant, especially for dinner. Varied, every night there was a different fish, the pasta was also perfect. The staff was friendly. Everything is clean, the only downside is that the hotel inside needs to be renovated and it takes a little longer to walk to the hotel's beach, which is also really nice. Any recommendation, the right choice!♥️

There are grooms and russians-beetles in the room, have a nice holiday! Not even a euro entered the hotel in summer, disgusting hotel! The toilet flushes occasionally, the carpets in the corridors are terribly dirty, the receptionist laughs at it all. Do you really not believe? Go there!

We had a fantastic holiday. Love the hotel. It's authentic and Italian. We had no complaints about the food; there was plenty of choice. The room was immaculately clean and towels and sheets were changed frequently. We weren't affected by noise - there is a main road just outside but we were able to shut the balcony door at night and keep the air con on. The pool was lovely and it was peaceful by the pool. Staff were generally friendly - it helps if you can say a few words in Italian, particularly thank you. The staff work hard - all hours. I sometimes feel embarrassed to be British as the Brits can always find something to complain about. The weather could not have better and we loved the beach. All tourists were polite, friendly and well behaved. The 2K walk to Cefalu old town is lovely. The town itself is beautiful and full of culture and beautiful buildings. There are plenty of places to eat and lots of delicious ice cream and cannoli. I don't know what people want at times. We would give it 4 stars. Depends what you want of course. Might be different when the kids are off school. We went out of school time. Can't wait to go back.

This is rather a 2,9* hotel with very outdated infrastructure. No restaurant a la carte. Just simple food serving hall. Poor breakfasts. The bar is quite nice. Staff was friendly and helpful. “Hotel beach” is about 130 steps and 10 minutes walk away, without any services (bar, toilet etc). The only plus is the view, if you get the room overlooking the sea 😀

A 4-star hotel that feels more like a 3+. On the plus side, amazing view of Cefalu from the room balcony, decent-sized rooms and large pool, pleasant walk to the pretty town of Cefalu, nice desserts at the cafe. On the other hand, the smallest shower ever, dated rooms and bathroom, mediocre, bland and repetitive food, tables not set up for breakfast, no soup ever, limited and repetitive choices for breakfast, one sad fruit choice per meal, only one sad dessert choice per meal, not both. More than 100 steep steps and a short walk to get to the hotel beach. No beach towels, no toilet, no bar, underwater rocks. But the worst thing about the hotel was the noise. Extremely loud animation around the pool at 10-12, 4-6, 9.30 or so-12. Unbearable. Windows did not help at all. All in Italian, with powerful loudspeakers, maximum volume. Twice during our week-long stay they organised events with loud music in the evening only meters away from the animation. Competing music. Absolutely horrible. We had to plan our days aound animation periods in order to avoid the assault on our ears and nerves. And there are railway tracks right next to the pool and restaurant terrace, close enough to high-five the passengers. Still, incredibly, the noise from the passing trains was nothing compared to the animation noise.

Very rude hotel staff and animators at the pool. Zero willingness to help, taking things from sunbeds to those who don't like them. Making your own rules and not following the rules. The animators talk and exalt themselves over you and the only thing they can do is "keep order" implicitly take other people's things.