Nicolaus Club Fontane Bianche

About an hour from Catania airport
Moderate4 starFull board

Nicolaus Club Fontane Bianche is a villaggio-style beach hotel, an Italian all-in-one holiday village, on the white-sand bay of Fontane Bianche near Siracusa on Sicily's south-east coast. It's a mid-market, sea-front resort sold as a Nicolaus Club package, with full board, a private lido on a long shallow beach, three pools and a full daytime and evening entertainment programme.

Nicolaus Club Fontane Bianche: a seafront holiday village on the white-sand bay of Fontane Bianche near Siracusa in south-east Sicily, with a pool area opening onto the beach.
On the bay Nicolaus Club Fontane Bianche sits right on the white-sand beach at Fontane Bianche, near Siracusa.
On this page
  1. Is it worth it?
  2. Quick facts
  3. What it's like
  4. Every restaurant and bar
  5. Rooms and suites
  6. Pools
  7. The beach
  8. Babies and toddlers
  9. Things to do
  10. The wellness centre
  11. The area and days out
  12. Loves and gripes
  13. How it compares
  14. Getting there
  15. Weather
  16. Good to know
  17. Questions
  18. Photo gallery
The short version

Is it worth it?

The quick read before the detail: who it suits, what's in the price and the facts to weigh first.

Nicolaus Club Fontane Bianche is a mid-market Italian holiday village sitting right on one of south-east Sicily's best family beaches, sold on full board with drinks at meals, a private lido, three pools and a busy entertainment programme. The thing to know before anything else is the age cut-off. There's no kids' club or nursery for a child under 3, and the youngest club starts at age 3. For a baby you get a free cot, a 24-hour feeding room and a staffed baby-food service instead, which is a well thought-through package for a family happy to manage a baby themselves, just not childcare. It suits families whose children are 3 or older, or younger families comfortable doing their own thing on a good beach. Two things to go in expecting: the buildings are dated for a 4-star, and the entertainment runs in Italian.

Best for

You want a proper sea-front beach village with full board, three pools and lots of entertainment, and either your children are 3 or over or you're happy managing a baby yourself.

Maybe not for

You need staffed childcare for a baby or toddler, you want a smart, recently-built resort, or you want the clubs and shows in English.

Best ages

Babies upwards if you're self-sufficient, but the structured programme is built for 3 and over: a Mini Club from 3, a Kids Club from 6, then teen clubs.

What stands out

The long, shallow white-sand beach right off the pool area, the baby-food service and 24-hour feeding room, and the entertainment team families single out.

What to check

Which board you're booking (beer isn't in the Nicolaus Club plan), the room type if you need a cot, and that you're comfortable with an Italian-led programme.

Where is it?

On the white-sand bay of Fontane Bianche near Siracusa, on Sicily's south-east coast, around an hour from Catania airport.

Quick facts for families

BoardNicolaus Club's Soft Inclusive full board: breakfast, lunch and dinner, with house wine, water and soft drinks at meals. Beer, spirits and cocktails cost extra.
The siteA seafront villaggio, an Italian holiday village, with the pools, bars, restaurant and sports on the sea and the rooms split across three blocks: central, lateral and a separate Garden block.
BabiesNo club or nursery under age 3. Instead there's a free cot, a 24-hour feeding room, a staffed baby-food service at meals and a children's welcome pack.
ChildcareKids' clubs run from age 3: a Mini Club for 3 to 6, a Kids Club for 6 to 12, then teen clubs. The programme is Italian-led.
BeachA long, gently shelving white-sand beach with a private lido, reached straight from the pool area. Clear and shallow, and widely rated good for children.
Getting thereCatania airport is around 65 to 76 km, roughly 50 minutes to just over an hour's drive. It's bookable from the UK through On the Beach.
A village on the sand

What the resort is like

Where it sits, how the site is laid out across its three blocks and where you'd sleep.

Fontane Bianche is a small coastal hamlet in the comune of Siracusa on Sicily's south-east coast, 15 km from Siracusa itself and 15 km from the Baroque town of Noto. The beach takes its name, which means "white springs", from the freshwater springs that surface on the seabed. The hotel is run locally as the Hotel Fontane Bianche Beach Resort and sold to the market as a Nicolaus Club package, so you may see it listed under either name; both are the same building.

It's a villaggio, an Italian holiday village, built around a central zone directly on the sea. That zone holds the main pool with its bars and restaurant, opening onto the sports area, with a large seafront disco nearby. The lobby sits here too, with the boutiques, a craft centre, the shop, an information point and the excursions desk. The wellness centre is tucked beneath the lobby.

Accommodation is split across three separate parts, and which one you're in matters more here than at a single-building hotel. The Corpo Centrale, the central block, holds 128 of the Classic rooms across its first and second floors, next to reception. The Corpo Laterale, the lateral block, holds another 53 Classic rooms, reached along an internal corridor and up two flights of stairs. The Garden block, sometimes called the dependance, sits about 50 metres away across a small municipal road, and it's linked to the main blocks by an internal passage that runs underground beneath the wellness centre, so you can reach it without crossing the road at ground level, useful with a pushchair or a sleeping child. It isn't clear whether that passage is step-free, so check on site if you're relying on it with a buggy.

A two-storey white room block with red shutters and balconies beside a paved walkway edged with clipped hedges and pine trees.
Room doors and balconies along one of the garden walkways
A single-storey white building with red shutters and a small walled terrace, surrounded by clipped hedges, oleander and pines under a blue sky.
A ground-floor room with its own walled terrace in the resort gardens
The resort's white buildings from the air, with palms and the blue-roofed entrance canopy in the courtyard, a car park in front and the sea and beach behind.
The resort on the seafront at Fontane Bianche
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One restaurant, full board

Every restaurant and bar

How the board works, the one big restaurant and its zones, the two bars and how the youngest guests are fed.

Board is the Nicolaus Club Soft Inclusive plan, which is full board with drinks included at meals. That covers breakfast, lunch and dinner, with house wine, water and soft drinks poured from vending machines at the table. There's an espresso corner from 7:30 to 10am, soft drinks, iced tea and juice on tap from 7:30am to midnight, and an "Aperitime" from 7:30 to 8pm with prosecco, a house alcohol-free cocktail and savoury snacks. Beer, spirits, cocktails, coffee-shop drinks, bottled and canned drinks, ice creams and packaged snacks all cost extra.

Check which board you're booking

The operator also sells a separate direct-booking "All Inclusive" product for the same hotel that does include beer at meals, a wider drinks list than the Nicolaus Club Soft Inclusive plan reviewed here. The two are different products from the same company, so if beer with dinner matters to you, confirm exactly which one your booking is on, because Soft Inclusive doesn't include it.

There's one main restaurant, La Piazza, big enough to be laid out in five areas: the central buffet and show-cooking counters; a semi-open seafront veranda with ceiling fans that seats 200; an air-conditioned interior room with a sea view, also 200; an air-conditioned enclosed room without a view, seating 100; and Pagoda Beach, an outdoor sea-facing area seating 150, which in July and August runs an express pizza corner each evening when weather and numbers allow.

Lunch is a light buffet built around a build-your-own salad bar, with cheeses, pizza, savoury pastries, grilled and cooked vegetables, pulses, a daily special, fresh fruit and pasta made to order in front of you, one long and one short shape with a choice of sauces. Dinner is a nightly buffet with themed evenings through the week, taking in Sicilian, Oriental and Italian nights and an all-fish evening. If you miss the main breakfast, a soft breakfast of American coffee and croissants stays out at the bar until midday, and there's a late breakfast from 10am to noon and a tea time from 4 to 5pm.

For the youngest guests, staff run a baby-food service at mealtimes, "Pappe e Mamme", preparing small pasta shapes, vegetable and meat broths, pureed vegetables and tomato sauce, and the restaurant may open a little earlier to make that easier. There's more on the feeding room and the rest of the baby setup in the babies section below.

Drinks away from meals come from a pool bar with a cocktail corner, plus a bar in the hall that opens in bad weather when the pool bar isn't practical.

On allergies, gluten-free and lactose-free base products are stocked, meaning bread, pasta, biscuits and ice cream, and you can bring your own pasta for the kitchen to cook. Flag any intolerance when you book. There's no separate gluten-free preparation area, so cross-contamination can't be guaranteed beyond those pre-packaged products.

How restaurant seating works

Guests in the lateral block get a table reserved for the whole stay as standard. In any other block, a table reserved for the stay is part of the paid Pacchetto Premium upgrade instead. There's no online restaurant booking; seating is sorted on site.

A curved buffet counter set with trays of Sicilian pastries and biscuits behind a glass screen, with bread baskets and jars along the top and pendant lights above.
The breakfast buffet counter
A chef in a Nicolaus Club jacket holding two large focaccias at a counter under copper heat lamps, with trays of bread rolls in front of him.
Focaccia at the show-cooking counter
A large open-sided dining room under a pale timber ceiling with ceiling fans, filled with white tables and chairs, with the sea beyond.
The sea-front veranda, one of the restaurant's five areas
An open-air dining area under a white marquee roof hung with wicker lanterns, set with white and black tables and chairs, with the sea beyond.
The outdoor dining area facing the sea
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Where you sleep and swim

Rooms and suites

Every room type with its official size, which suits a family with a baby, then the three pools and the beach.

All the rooms are "Classic" in the two main blocks, plus the separate Garden rooms. The resort has 181 Classic rooms, 128 in the central block and 53 in the lateral block, plus a smaller, separate Garden block. The table below is the full line-up with official sizes; the guidance after it is which suit a family with a young child.

Nicolaus Club Fontane Bianche room types with official sizes, how many they sleep, their block and their outlook
RoomBlock and ratingSizeSleepsBalcony and view
Classic double, triple or quadCorpo Centrale, 4-star18.4 m²2 adults + 2 childrenSmall balcony on all; sea view for a supplement
Classic double, 1st or 2nd floorCorpo Laterale, 4-star15 m²2A terrace on some rooms; sea view for a supplement
Classic triple, ground floorCorpo Laterale, 4-star18.4 m²3No balcony, a window only, at a reduced rate; no sea view
Garden roomSeparate Garden block, 3-starNot publishedUp to 5A private veranda on most; flat beds, no bunks

The Garden rooms in the separate block are the easiest fit for most families with a young child. They're the only rooms described as larger than the Classic rooms, they sleep up to five on flat beds rather than a bunk, which helps if two children share or a grandparent comes along, and most have a private veranda for a bit of outdoor space of your own before the heat builds. Their exact size isn't given, so book them for the space and the veranda rather than a square-metre figure.

In the central block, on the lateral block's first and second floors and in the Garden rooms, a cot is added free as an extra bed, on top of the room's stated limit, so a baby doesn't use up one of your places. The one room to flag to whoever books is the lateral ground-floor triple: it's the only room where the cot has to fit within the stated maximum rather than coming as an extra, and it trades its balcony for a bigger interior, so it has a window only, priced lower than the balcony rooms to reflect that. The central-block Classic rooms are compact whether booked as a double, triple or quad, since the extra beds are a bunk added into the same footprint, but every one has a balcony.

The lateral block's upper-floor rooms are reached along an internal corridor and up two flights of stairs, with no lift confirmed in either main block, worth knowing if you're carrying a heavy pram or a sleeping child. Every room, whichever block, has air conditioning, a mini-fridge, a TV, a safe, a hairdryer and a shower; some ground-floor lateral rooms have a bath instead.

A hotel room with a double bed and padded headboard, a wooden desk and mirror, and long curtains at a balcony door.
A Classic double, the standard room in the two main blocks
A room with a double bed and a white metal bunk bed beside a curtained window, with an armchair and a tiled floor.
A Classic room with the bunk bed that makes it a triple or quad
A room with its balcony doors open onto a terrace above the beach, a desk and mirror to one side and the bay beyond.
A Classic room with a sea view
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Three pools

Pools and water features

The main pool is large, set in the central zone right by the sea, with its own bar and a snack corner, shaded lounging, tables, umbrellas and loungers. Daytime and evening pool entertainment runs from the animation team, from water games to a piano bar, and a lifeguard is on duty from 9:30am to 1pm and 3 to 7pm. There's an adults-only hydromassage corner within the pool area.

For young children there's a small, dedicated miniclub pool, set in the miniclub's own planted, reserved area and separate from the main pool, staffed by the animators from 9am to 1pm and 3 to 7pm. A third pool sits inside the paid wellness centre, a pool within the spa rather than a feature for children. There's no splash pad here, so the miniclub pool is the resort's water feature for the youngest guests.

Two adults sitting on the edge of a large outdoor pool with a cocktail, with loungers, chairs and other guests along the far side under palms and pines.
The main pool, which has its own bar and a snack corner
The pool area from the air, with a rectangular blue pool, a smaller pool, planted grounds, tennis courts and rows of beach parasols alongside.
The pool area and the sports courts alongside it
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White sand and springs

The beach

Fontane Bianche beach is what families rate most here. It's fine white sand more than a kilometre long, gently shelving into clear water, named for the freshwater springs that rise through the seabed. The resort has a private, equipped lido on it with direct access from the pool area, and it's widely and independently described as good for children thanks to that shallow, gently shelving water. One umbrella and two loungers come with each room, from the third row of the beach back while stock lasts, with the first two rows a paid upgrade; beach-towel hire is on a deposit with a charge to swap. For accessibility there are boardwalks and ramps, a reserved position and a "JOB" chair, a specialist wheelchair for getting into the sea.

No beach in the province of Syracuse held a Blue Flag, the international clean-beach award, for 2026. That's a province-wide gap that affects every nearby resort equally rather than a mark against this beach or its water, which families rate for exactly the calm, shallow paddling small children need.

The resort runs its own watersports base on the sand, and it's a proper one: a Hobie Cat 15 Club catamaran, a five-person boat used for group and beginner sailing lessons and taxi rides for adults and children, a Laser Standard dinghy for solo lessons, four double and ten single kayaks, a safety boat, four beginner windsurf boards and two wave and freeride boards for stronger sailors, with five sails between them in a range of sizes and life jackets in a spread of sizes. Sailing kit for your own use is by booking and an instructor's check of your ability, and powered-boat hire, diving courses and dives are arranged from the same base.

One resort-specific quirk: the freshwater springs that give the bay its name can make the shallows feel a touch cooler underfoot than other Sicilian beaches.

Sun loungers under cream parasols on pale sand at the water's edge, with calm blue sea and a low rocky headland in the distance.
Fontane Bianche beach, more than a kilometre of white sand
Rows of cream parasols and sun loungers on the sand in front of the resort's white buildings and pine trees.
The resort's private lido, reached straight from the pool area
Kayaks, a catamaran and pedalos drawn up on the sand at the end of the rows of parasols, with the resort's trees and buildings behind.
The watersports base, run from the beach itself
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For babies and up

Babies and toddlers

The gap under age 3 and the package that fills it, the clubs from 3 up, and the language families should expect.

The single most important thing for a family with a baby: there's no age-banded kids' club or nursery for a child under 3. Two independent official sources confirm the same thing, and the youngest club is the Nicolino Mini Club from age 3. A family relying on this resort for structured childcare for a baby or one-year-old won't find any.

What the resort does provide for under-threes is a self-managed package that's well thought through. A cot comes free as an extra bed in most room types, as covered in the rooms section. The "Biberoneria" is a dedicated feeding room open 24 hours, equipped for warming bottles and preparing baby food, with high chairs. One real limit to know: it supplies no food or products, so you buy formula, jars and nappies yourself, and the only place on site to get them is the shop in the lobby. Alongside it, the "Pappe e Mamme" baby-food service runs at meals, and a "Nicolino Card" children's welcome pack gives access to both, plus a physical kit of a colourful bag, a bathrobe, a silicone bib, a "passport" and a small gift. It's the children's welcome pack, and whether it costs extra isn't spelt out, so check when you book.

From age 3 up the clubs are the Nicolino Mini Club for 3 to 6, the Nicolino Kids Club for 6 to 12, then a Young Club for 12 to 14 and a Nick Club for 14 to 18. The miniclub is an indoor and outdoor space in a green, planted, reserved zone with its own small pool, running a weekly schedule of themed games and sport, a first go at swimming and tennis, educational games and small-prize tournaments, with an introductory scuba course as a paid extra. Babysitting is available on request, booked on site and subject to availability; ask on site for the rate.

One thing a UK family should go in expecting: the animation and the clubs run in Italian. Families who've stayed consistently report the programme delivered in Italian only, with staff unable to communicate in English or German, so a family with no Italian should plan for a strongly Italian-led experience rather than an English-speaking one.

On resort

Things to do

The Nicolaus Team runs a full daytime programme of sport, tournaments, games and dance-style wellbeing classes, and in the evening there's musical entertainment, amphitheatre shows, themed "magic nights" and party evenings, plus an outdoor seafront disco.

On the sport side there are tennis courts with racquets and depressurised balls for adults, juniors and children, group lessons in the morning and private lessons in the afternoon feeding into tournaments. There's a fenced, floodlit five-a-side football pitch with a regular evening tournament, beach volleyball morning and afternoon, beach tennis, and a covered gym with a sea view. The watersports base and its sailing, windsurfing, kayaking and diving are covered in the beach section above. Diving is run through an affiliated centre, with boat hire and excursions arranged through the resort.

A few things cost extra on top of the standard club card: floodlighting the pitches outside animation hours, and individual lessons in any sport, since group lessons are already included.

Paid excursions run from the resort's own excursions desk on a weekly rotating programme. It takes in Siracusa and Ortigia, an "Ortigia by night" walk, Noto by day and by night, Etna and Taormina, the Ragusa, Modica and Scicli towns from the Montalbano TV series with a Modica chocolate tasting, Sicily Outlet Village, the Roman mosaics at Piazza Armerina, a snorkelling and beach-barbecue trip to Ognina, a run to Marzamemi and Porto Palo and a Catania street-food walk that ends at the airport for anyone flying home.

Below the lobby

The wellness centre

The Centro Benessere, the wellness centre, runs to over 500 m² beneath the main lobby, with a pool, a gym and the resort's main covered, air-conditioned amphitheatre, which doubles as the venue for evening shows. It's also the building the underground passage to the Garden rooms runs beneath. It isn't clear whether children are allowed in, so check on site if that matters for your plans.

Baroque towns and a volcano

The area and days out

Map of the area around Nicolaus Club Fontane Bianche, showing the resort, the nearest airport and the main family days out

What's within reach by car or on the excursion programme, and the town Fontane Bianche is part of.

Fontane Bianche isn't a sealed resort bubble. It's a recognised local town with its own shops, bars and pharmacies, so much so that VOI Arenella, a resort 7 km away, treats it as its nearest town. That makes it a good base for south-east Sicily's family sightseeing, most of it reachable independently by car or through the resort's excursion programme.

Siracusa and its old-town island of Ortigia are 15 km away: the Greek theatre, the Ear of Dionysius cave, the Roman amphitheatre, and on Ortigia the Temple of Apollo, the Duomo and the Fountain of Arethusa, with the old town a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005. Noto, also 15 km, is the "capital of Sicilian Baroque", a compact old town easily walked with a pushchair. For the towns used to film the Montalbano TV series there's Ragusa, Modica and Scicli, and Modica's chocolate-making tradition with them.

Further out, Etna and Taormina make a longer day trip. Etna's lower slopes suit young children better than the summit, with flattish paths around the Silvestri craters at around 1,900 metres from the Rifugio Sapienza car park; there's an optional cable car higher up to around 3,000 metres if you want to make more of the day. To the south, Marzamemi is a fishing village and Porto Palo di Capo Passero is Sicily's southernmost point, where the Ionian and Mediterranean seas meet. For golf, there's an 18-hole course 15 km away, not on site.

The verdict in detail

Loves and gripes

What families rate and what frustrates them, how it compares in Sicily, the journey in and the weather by month.

On HolidayCheck it scores 3.5 out of 6 across 202 reviews, with 70% of reviewers recommending it: a split picture rather than a uniformly strong one, with about two-thirds of stays rated rather good or better and about a third rather poor or worse. Reviews on the bigger platforms read a little more positive, with the usual tail of unhappy stays.

What families rate

  • The beach and its position, direct off the pool area, calm and shallow, the single most-praised thing.
  • The animation and entertainment team, described as present and engaging without being pushy.
  • The miniclub, singled out for staff who are patient, dedicated and creative.

Common gripes

  • The building's age and condition for a 4-star, with specific reports of loose external floor tiles, glass splinters on the restaurant floor, mould at a shower base, a faulty sink plug, air conditioning not working in July heat and inconsistent hot water.
  • The Italian-only entertainment and staff, a real barrier for a family with no Italian.
  • Food quality and variety, which splits reviewers two ways: some rate it, others describe poor quality, limited choice and a disorganised buffet.
  • Value for money and service consistency at peak-season prices.
  • Night-time noise from the open-air disco running late, raised by at least one family and worth knowing if you're near that side.
Against the Sicily alternatives

How it compares

The clearest comparison is VOI Arenella, 7 km away on the same coast. Arenella has a dedicated 0 to 2 nursery and reaches its beach by a free shuttle train, so it's the better pick for a family with a baby under 2; Fontane Bianche sits directly on its own beach with no shuttle, and it's the more straightforwardly beachfront choice once children are 3 and up. Both run their entertainment largely in Italian.

Further afield, Grand Palladium Sicilia on the north coast is a higher-positioned all-inclusive with a Baby Club from age 1, better set up for a one or two-year-old. Mangia's Brucoli near Augusta is a newer 5-star with a crèche from 4 months and a much stronger baby offer, at a higher price. Verdura Resort near Sciacca is the luxury benchmark of the shortlist, with a kids' club from birth and four pools, at a far higher price again; Fontane Bianche is the accessible, mid-market beachfront alternative to all three. Within the wider Nicolaus Club portfolio the mechanics are the same across the group, so a family who has stayed at another Nicolaus Club will recognise the Soft Inclusive board, the Nicolino clubs and the club-card model here.

From the airport, and the season

Getting there and when to go

Catania is the airport, around 65 to 76 km away, roughly 50 minutes to just over an hour by car. By road it's the A18 motorway towards Siracusa, off at Cassibile, then through Avola towards Fontane Bianche. Siracusa's mainline station is about 15 km away, and there's a small seasonal request stop called Fontane Bianche about 600 metres from the beach, around 14 minutes from Siracusa, though services on it are limited and infrequent. The resort is bookable from the UK through On the Beach, and it's also carried by TUI in Germany and by Thomas Cook, so you don't need an Italian-only channel; Jet2holidays doesn't carry it.

The main summer is the season. A fixed Sunday-to-Sunday peak runs from 23 June to 15 September, with shorter, more flexible stays available either side. It runs through the main Italian summer, so check the exact opening and closing dates before booking outside the peak weeks. June, before the fixed weeks lock in, and September, after Italian schools go back and it empties out while the sea stays warm, are the calmest, most flexible weeks for a family with young children. On the Soft Inclusive plan the stay runs from dinner on arrival day to lunch on departure day, with check-in from 5pm and check-out by 10am.

Month by month

Weather

Fontane Bianche is on Sicily's south-east coast, the same climate as the rest of the lowland east coast, so the figures below are the long-term averages we use across our Sicily guide. Summers are hot and dry, the sea warm from June well into the autumn, and rain stays low through the season.

Typical monthly weather for Sicily
MonthDaytime highOvernight lowRainWet daysSea temp
January15°10°98 mm1015°
February15°9.5°110 mm1015°
March16.5°11°78 mm915°
April19°13°65 mm916°
May21.5°16°36 mm419°
June26°20°18 mm223°
July29°23°7 mm127°
August29.5°23.5°32 mm228°
September27°21.5°65 mm526°
October24°18°106 mm823°
November20°15°118 mm1020°
December16.5°11.5°124 mm1217°

Typical monthly averages from weather-station records. Sea temperature is the open-water figure, so a sheltered bay can feel a degree or two warmer. The confirmed peak season runs 23 June to 15 September.

The practical detail

Good to know

Health and pharmacies, the shops, the club card and premium upgrade, and access around the site.

For health, the nearest hospital is 5 km away and there's a medical guard, a duty doctor point, 500 metres from the property; an on-site medical service is available on request for a charge. The nearest pharmacy is 300 metres away, but it only opens from mid-June, so if you're visiting in the shoulder season don't count on it being open.

Two lobby shops cover day-to-day needs. The Bazar sells tobacco and newspapers, clothing, sun care, snacks, toys and souvenirs, and it's the only place on site to buy baby food and formula, since the feeding room supplies none. La Boutique in the lobby gallery has swimwear, t-shirts, bags, shoes, hats and general beach bits. There's also a paid laundry service, and private parking, internal or external, uncovered and unattended. Wi-Fi reaches only parts of the hall and the area around the outdoor pool, not the whole resort, and you shouldn't count on it in the rooms. Small pets up to 7 kg are allowed but kept out of the communal areas and off the beach.

Two paid packages sit on top of the room rate. The Tessera Club, the standard club card that Italian holiday villages generally charge, covers the beach service, pool and sun-terrace use, a first beach towel on deposit, day and evening animation for adults and children, group sports lessons, daytime pitch use by booking and individual use of the sailing kit by booking and ability check; no price is published. The optional Pacchetto Premium Nicolaus adds a reserved restaurant table for the stay, daily linen and beach-towel changes, a starter minibar, two 50cl water bottles a day, a robe and slippers, late check-out to midday, a "Plus" toiletries set, a 10% boutique discount, a bar credit and a small gift.

On access, there are disabled-access double rooms in the central block and the property states it can host guests with disabilities, and the beach has boardwalks, ramps, a reserved position and the JOB sea-access chair. The main practical flag is stairs: the lateral block is reached up two flights with no lift confirmed, and the central block runs across several floors with no lift confirmed either way, so if you're carrying a pram or a sleeping child, raise it with whoever books. The underground passage to the Garden block avoids a road crossing, though you can't count on it being step-free.

The questions parents ask

Questions

The things families ask most, the official pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.

Is beer included in the all-inclusive?

Not on the Nicolaus Club Soft Inclusive plan, which covers house wine, water and soft drinks at meals but charges for beer. The same operator sells a separate All Inclusive product for this hotel that does include it, so confirm which board your booking is on before you pay.

Is there a kids’ club for a baby or toddler?

No. The youngest club starts at age 3, and there’s no nursery below that. What you get for a baby instead is a free cot, a 24-hour feeding room, a baby-food service at meals and a children’s welcome pack. If you specifically want staffed childcare for a child under 3, VOI Arenella nearby has a 0 to 2 nursery, so look there.

Which room works best with a baby, and which should we avoid?

The Garden rooms work best for most families. They’re the roomiest, sleep up to five on flat beds and mostly have a veranda. The one that’s awkward with a cot is the lateral ground-floor triple, the only room where the cot has to fit within the stated maximum rather than being added free on top, and it has a window instead of a balcony.

Does the beach have a Blue Flag?

No, but no beach in the whole province of Syracuse held one for 2026, so it’s a province-wide gap rather than anything against this stretch of sand. Judge the beach on what it actually is: clear, shallow water that shelves in gently, which is what you want with small children.

How far is the airport, and how long is the drive?

Catania, around 65 to 76 km away, roughly 50 minutes to just over an hour by car. It’s too far for a quick taxi hop with luggage, so arrange a transfer or a hire car.

Is there a lift to the rooms?

There’s no lift confirmed in either block, and the lateral block is reached along an internal corridor and up two flights of stairs. If you’re travelling with a heavy pram or expect to carry a sleeping child, flag it to whoever books so you’re not put on an upper floor without knowing.

Is there much sport, and can you play tennis?

Yes. There are tennis courts with racquets and balls for adults and children, morning group lessons included and private lessons for a charge, plus five-a-side football, beach volleyball, beach tennis, a gym and a watersports base on the sand. Group lessons come with the club card; individual coaching in any sport is extra.

When should we go, and is it open for October half term?

Peak runs Sunday to Sunday from 23 June to 15 September, with shorter stays either side. June and September are the calmest weeks for a family, warm but short of the peak. Only those peak dates are confirmed and the autumn closing date isn't published, so check the resort is open before booking an October half term.

Will the kids’ club and entertainment be in English?

No, expect Italian. Guests who’ve stayed describe the animation running in Italian only, with staff who couldn’t get by in English or German, so a UK family with no Italian should book knowing that.

Last updated 16 July 2026. Board plans, club ages, opening dates and prices change, so check the current position before you book.