Hotel Carasco

Wonderful in every way; from the location directly on the sea, with breathtaking views, to the architecture and authentic style of the 1970’s. Such great value, a comfortable and exquisite choice, offering a fabulous Sicilian experience of the Aeolian Islands. Grazie to all the kind staff.

Horrible service and overrated hotel, for sure choose another one. Lip Ari has better options. Old furniture, not cozy decoration, extremely noisy, nice spot for pictures but with a really inconvenient location for going to everything. No shuttle service available from the hotel. Appliances don’t work, not hot water and very basic breakfast. Night priced, absolutely not worthy for what you pay.Surely is not a quality hotel of 4 starts. Old fashion, basic bar service (although they say they have a restaurant). Inflexible restaurant schedule eve though they are flexible for other annoying services, as been very noisy at night and very early in the morning. They are able to transform the hotel in a Disco anytime with not notice in advance, so you will pay for a room but you will not be able to sleep or rest until 3:00 a.m in the morning. And when you tell the staff they don’t care about it, son for sure is not suitable for families with kids or somebody who wants to have a peaceful holidays.

Had the absolute best time at Hotel Carasco in Lipari. The building and architecture are quaint, and charming, the staff super nice and friendly and helpful. We booked a non sea view and were upgraded to a sea view – Thank you, was very much appreciated! The pool is large and salted and refreshing and we spent a lot of time in it. They have a private set of stairs leading down to the sea for awesome snorkelling. The food and drinks prices are very reasonable for Europe. Lipari in general is amazing. We loved every minute of it. We walked a lot, shopped, exploring the old town, wine tasted, hired scooters, and ate and drank far too much! We hired a boat and visited many island beaches and anchored nearby and swam a lot. The hotel is ten mins walk from one of two city centres and to be honest we appreciated the walk to walk off all the delicious food we were overeating in town and at the hotel... The hotel will arrange a shuttle (€3 per person if not mistaken) if walking is not your thing. The hotel is not super modern and is a little rough around the edges but it adds to the charm and one of the most enjoyable hotel experiences we have had. The internet wasn't the best but we worked around it. The restaurant views are stunning. We found the rooms and hotel to be very clean and yes a seagul tried to eat our food once we left our table for a minute but was was quite entertaining and he became a regular source of jokes between the staff and other customers. We stayed a full week – all in all we highly recommend. Lipari and neighbouring Salina which we visited felt like a super authentic Sicilian/Italian experience – we encountered many more Italian tourists than foreigners which added to the authenticity and the towns and islands are still very untouched – you are mostly spoken to in Italian which further adds to the authentic experience – we will definitely come back...