Hi Liz,

Thanks a lot! I’m glad my Sicily itineraries are helping you plan your trip.

If you want to do the whole of Sicily in 10 days, there’s really no choice but to change accommodation very often.
The itinerary you’ve planned is great for seeing as much as possible.
As for luggage theft, unfortunately this is very common in Sicily. There’s not much you can do about it, as there will always be days when you’ll have to carry your luggage in the car.
Try to put it all in the car boot and always keep your papers, jewellery and money with you.

On the other hand, what worries me a little is the dates of your itinerary.
At this time of year (24/25/26 and 31/01), many places are likely to be closed.
You should check beforehand for each place you want to visit.

Have a nice day,

I’m not sure if we are trying to accomplish too much especially since we will be driving in 2 cars and having had the experience of our luggage stolen from our car in Portugal, I’m not sure if we should be changing accommodation so often. Would truly appreciate your expert advise!

Hello Mary,

Thank you for your kind words!

For your itinerary, it’s important to keep in mind that the Etna is more than 3 hours by car from Palermo, one way.
So normally I include a visit to Etna in my itineraries starting from Catania, which is much closer to the volcano.

For your itinerary, you have several possibilities:
– Palermo / Cefalu / Taormina / Etna / Catania / Palermo
– Palermo / Trapani / Agrigento / Catania (Etna) / Cefalu (if you have time) / Palermo
The best thing to do is to look at Google maps, to see the different travel times by car. But in any case, the fact that you want to do Etna makes you cross a good part of Sicily.

Enjoy your trip to Sicily!

Thank you so much for an amazing article, its a life saver)

We are a couple and planning to visit Sicily end of May for 6 days, arriving to Palermo and later leaving also from Palermo. Could you please advise what would be the best itinerary so that we also get to Etna volcano? We will rent a car.

Thanks a lot in advance, Mary

Hello Monica,

If you just want one place to stay for the duration of your trip, I would recommend either Trapani (in the West) or Syracuse/Ortigia for the East.

Enjoy your trip to Sicily!

I’m not sure if you are still providing recommendations via this website, but thought to give it a try!

I’m planning a trip to Sicily with my family and we will have only 5/6 days max. They are not really into the mood of changing places to stay, so ideally we would choose one place to stay and drive around to visit what is feasible.
We are more into beaches, towns and mountain/nature than geogoloy activities.
Which side of the island you would choose? And which itinerary you would recomend us?

Thanks a lot for such great website 🙂

Best!
Monica

Hello Jo,

Regarding your itinerary in Sicily:
20 and 21: ok
22: if you are more interested in history and architecture, you should rather go directly to Agrigento on that day. You can visit Segesta when leaving Palermo but it’s a diversion. In Cefalu, there is not much to see. Spend the night in Agrigento.

For the rest of your stay, you have 2 choices:
– 23 / 24: Taormina and surroundings
– 25: Catania
or:
-23: Ragusa/Noto
-24: Syracuse
-25: Catania.
Feel free to look at Google maps to see the locations of the cities and the travel times. You may not realise it, but Sicily is a large island, so distances are important.

Enjoy your stay in Sicily!

I’m not sure if you are still providing recommendations via this website, but thought to give it a try!

We are planning our first trip to Sicily for 6 nights; arriving Palermo 19th April, and leaving from Catania airport 25th April.

We’re thinking Palermo for 2 nights, 1 night somewhere in between, 1-2 nights Taormina, and 1 night Catania to catch a flight to Rome the next morning. We will also get a Rental Car before leaving Palermo to have for the rest of the trip. We’re thinking to include a visit to Castellammare del Golfo, Cefalu (if time permits), definitely Agrigento, and Siracusa. If time permits, we would like to visit Noto/Ragusa.

20th April: Arrive Palermo, visit / site seeing per your recommendations – night in Palermo
21st April: Palermo + Monreale town and cathedral – night in Palermo
22nd April: Collect Rental Car in Palermo, drive to Cefalu, visit around (night in Cefalu or somewhere else)
23rd April: Spend morning travelling to and visiting Agrigento, Valley of Temples, Segesta Temple then 1-2 nights Taormina
24th April: Where would make sense to visit for 1 full day by car?
25th April: travel to Catania (to catch flight next morning)

Very keen to know your thoughts on how to make the most of our trip. We are most interested in history/architecture/traditional food/wine and will spend some time in Taormina relaxing by the beach.

Thank you so much.

Hi Nina,

There are only 3 ski resorts in Sicily:
– Etna North – Piano Provenzana (Linguaglossa)
– Etna South – Nicolosi
– Piano Battaglia in the Madonie park.
You can of course spend just one day skiing in any of them.
However, I don’t know if it’s easy to go with your car if you don’t have snow tyres.

And as I’ve never been to Sicily’s mountains in winter, I can’t tell you too much about what to do during this period.

The best way to choose your accommodation is to look directly on Booking.com by clicking here and search around the ski resort you have chosen.

Enjoy your stay in Sicily!

Can you ski for one day only? Since we will be with our own car – how difficult is it to get to the ski resorts? How far away from the ski resort can we stay on the same night so that we can drive down?

Any other tips for a short ski or snow trip would be great 🙂 But also what other activities we could do since it’s so cold, like short hikes, renting a bicycle, visiting a lake, etc.

Thanks!
Nina