21 Jan
21/02 Snowkite on Etna and “March, month of snow” offer
It’s difficult to impress me. They did. Watch a bit of extreme Snowkite on Etna. In this video you will recognize Rifugio Sapienza (300 meters far from hotel) and one of ‘classic’ adorable Etna fox. We are launching a new special offer on March’s weekend 13th-15th. 2008 tariffs if you stay Friday and Saturday night! …
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18/01 Etna weather Forecasts and wireless update
Checking weather forecasts it seems more snow should arrive on Wednesday and Thursday. You can see updates on Snow-forecast.com. About wireless it is now available in 100% of hotel (and outside for hacker’s pleasure, I fear). Connection is and will remain free if experimentation will be positive and if nobody will abuse of download and …
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17/01 Silver Weekend
Hotel has yet some rooms available for Silver Weekend (Friday 23th & Saturday 24th). We will apply 2008 tariffs instead of 2009 ones. For example a family of two adults and two children under 12 will pay € 480,00 total in Full Board instead of € 580,00. Two persons in Half Board pay € 260,00 …
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15/03 Thomas is still with us
Thomas Reichart’s photo album on Flickr is going to be updated since February. We read a note: “The pictures in this set were taken by Thomas on his last journey to mount Etna. We – his parents and his brother Markus – will take care of his flickr homepage and add his last photos here. …
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14/03 Red Cross and Traffic Police exercise on Etna
Yesterday we offered hotel’s parking to an exercise of Red Cross and Traffic Police. They simulated an accident scene with destroyed vehicles and wounded people (with realistic injuries and false blood). Some photos are too impressive to be shown here so I just publish a panoramic. UPDATE: watch video at YouTube
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14/10 Christmas and New Year’s day on Etna
Due to many requests in past years this year we will anticipate winter’s hotel opening to December, 24th evening (hotel will not close in November and December but restaurant will not work in these two months). It will be possible to sleep on Etna on Christmas at normal hotel rate. About New Year’s day we …
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