We had a good time staying at the Hotel Ossidiana. We were glad for its port-side location when we arrived (it was a two minute walk from the boat.) The location during our stay was a little less convenient, since we had to go about ten minutes up a steep hill to get to the town, restaurants, shops, etc. Also, had to go up the hill and down to the other side to get to the beach. On the other hand, it was clean, spacious, and had a beautiful garden terrace (shared with one or two other rooms, but never saw anyone else out there.) Breakfast was good, and the staff very friendly. They don't speak English, but not many people do on Stromboli. Good location for getting on the boat rides out to see the Sciara del Fuoco.

We stayed one night at the Ossidiana in September 2006, arriving at noon from Lipari, walking up Stromboli, sleeping at the Ossidiana and catching the 7:25 ferry back to Milazzo the next day. As you can see, we didn't spend a lot of time at this place but I think I can still add my opinion. I try to be picky in my reviews, stressing the negative facts with good hotels in order to be fair, but there wasn't anything I didn't like with the Ossidiana (except, perhaps, that they insisted to charge the whole price at booking time). The room was big, beautiful and clean, the bath room was excellent, and it was really calm too. However, our room looked to the backside where we had a beautiful sun-protected terrace too. I guess that a room to the front would have been much louder. Therefore, I recommmend booking a backside room explicitely. One extremely pleasant surprise: We absolutely wanted to catch the 7:25 ferry, but breakfast started officially only at 8:00. I asked if it were possible to have at least a coffee or something at 7:00, and they told me "don't worry, you'll have your complete breakfast" at that time. Guess what? They kept their word! We were completely alone at that time, but we had our complete breakfast. For our needs, Ossidiana was the perfect place.

We had a good time staying at the Hotel Ossidiana. We were glad for its port-side location when we arrived (it was a two minute walk from the boat.) The location during our stay was a little less convenient, since we had to go about ten minutes up a steep hill to get to the town, restaurants, shops, etc. Also, had to go up the hill and down to the other side to get to the beach. On the other hand, it was clean, spacious, and had a beautiful garden terrace (shared with one or two other rooms, but never saw anyone else out there.) Breakfast was good, and the staff very friendly. They don't speak English, but not many people do on Stromboli. Good location for getting on the boat rides out to see the Sciara del Fuoco.