Very comfortable hotel, excellent room and bed. The staff is friendly but there is an obvious lack of experience (we had to ask 3 times for an ashtray because the lady forgot us, the service is very slow and at the reception while proceeding to the check-in we had to ask about the private beach and the pool, they didn't spontaneously informed us about this. So I guess many guests didn't even know they had a private beach which is 100m away.
Advantages: new and comfortable rooms, private beach, special price, friendly staff.
Disadvantages: the hotel was empty, very few tourists in this huge hotel, no entertainment and nothing around. You have to take a bus in order to go to Taormina or Messina, because Roccalumera is a very small village with only 3 restaurants around and one supermarket, payable Ping-Pong table on their private beach.