Planning your dream Honeymoon in Sicily

If you are planning your dream honeymoon in Sicily, you must read this travel guide for brilliant tips and inspiring ideas for your memorable honeymoon.

Unlike Sardinia, especially known for its hundreds of wonderful beaches and a crystal-clear sea, on top of unrivalled beaches and a fabulous sea, Sicily has a great concentration of ancient archaeological sites preserving substantial relics dating back to different past ages civilizations.

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean sea, featured by a multi-faceted landscape suited for all kinds of leisure activities to do. On top of a number of awesome beaches and a spectacular sea, where sunbathing is pure joy, you can opt for a cultural walk or a guided tour through its numerous archaeological sites.

Sicily houses a substantial number of ancient remains belonging to diverse civilizations which settled in this island in ancient times and in different ages, starting from the Greeks in the eighth century BC, to Phoenicians afterward, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French, Spanish, and Bourbons ousted by Garibaldi in 1860.

Greek Amphitheatre of Taormina with Etna Mount on the background

If you are planning your dream honeymoon in Sicily, you’ll probably wonder what the best time of the year to spend your holiday in Sicily would be. The highest and most expensive season begins in July and ends in August. Outside of summer’s highest season, Sicily is relatively cheap compared to other tourist destinations such as Venice or Tuscany.
Except for Taormina and San Vito Lo Capo. Except for the coastal area, Sicily offers plenty of rather affordable accommodation rates throughout the whole year.

Moreover, being the climate rather benign year-round, the island is suited for tourism at any time of the year.

If you are planning your dream honeymoon in Sicily, you can count on a broad selection of high standard and not too expensive Hotels and Resorts ensuring top services and locations for couples on their honeymoon.

Find HERE 12 Top Romantic Hotels and Guest-Houses in Sicily, along with a short description of every hotel facilities, and the best nearby attractions to enjoy.

San Vito Lo Capo, Gandolfo Cannatella©, 123RF.com

The Best Ways

to get to Sicily

By ferry

If you are planning your dream honeymoon in Sicily, know that you can reach this amazing island by sea, by plane, by car, and by train.
Definitely, the most effective way to get there is by ferry or by plane.

The main ports of departure to Sicily are Genoa (Liguria Region, North-East Italy), Civitavecchia (Rome region), Naples, Salerno (Campania region, three hours south of Naples), Cagliari, Reggio Calabria (Calabria region, South of Italy), and Villa San Giovanni (Calabria region, South of Italy). The main ports of arrival on Sicily are Palermo, Messina, Catania, Trapani, Porto Empedocle, Milazzo, and the ports on the Aeolian Islands and Aegadian archipelagos.

The Ferries routes are operated by a number of companies. The most booked ones are SIREMAR, TIRRENIA, GRANDI NAVI VELOCI, GRIMALDI, TTT LINES, SNAV, CARONTE&TOURIST, and LIBERTY LINES (ex Ustica Lines).

As for every holiday destination in Italy, the earlier you book, the less you pay. Most ferries start publishing package deals and discounts every year as of January – February, meaning that it’s recommendable starting to check out their websites around that time.

To compare a large number of ticket fares, you can better check out specific booking platforms.

There are plenty of these platforms available online, but the one I rely most on is OK-Ferry that most frequently publish discounts and package deals.
However, consider that if you book via an intermediary platform, you may be charged a booking commission on top of the regular price.

View of Palermo harbour

By plane

Another effective and faster way to get to Sicily is by plane.
In Sicily there are two international-famed airports serving several national and international routes and hosting many airlines:

CATANIA-FONTANAROSSA airport (Vincenzo Bellini) – south-west of Catania.

The best attractions nearby not to miss are:

CATANIA
TAORMINA
MOUNT ETNA
USTICA ISLAND

This airport is connected with several bus lines, and with the railway station. Moreover, if you want to hire a car, there are many car rental agencies inside and outside the airport building.

FALCONE AND BORSELLINO AIRPORT (Punta Raisi – Palermo)
The best nearby attractions not to miss are:

PALERMO
MONREALE
SOLUNTUM
ZINGARO RESERVE

The airport is connected to other parts of the Island and to the closest railway station through several bus lines. Moreover, if you want better to rent a car, there are several car rental agencies inside the airport building.

Apart from Catania and Palermo’s airports, there are other three secondary airports in Sicily, but the number of routes served by them is inferior to Catania and Palermo’s airports, and not all of them serve international routes.

They are respectively:

VINCENZO FLORIO in Trapani-Birgi.
This airport is only 17 km away from TRAPANI and 16 km away from MARSALA.

PIO LA TORRE DI COMISIO airport is only 15 Km away from Ragusa.

ITALO D’AMICO in Pantelleria island (north-west of Pantelleria)

I would recommend you search on SKYSCANNER for cheap flights, hotels, car hire, or a combination of them.

Temples Valley (Agrigento)

A Heavenly Honeymoon
on the Aeolian Islands

Why not choosing a Sicily’s island to honeymoon?

Sicily coast is fringed by a number of beautiful islands, some of which are volcanic, featuring black-lava beaches and whitewashed villages. It’s the intense contrast of light and dark shades to make the seven Aeolian Islands’ archipelagos off the northern coast of Sicily (Lipari, Panarea, Stromboli, Vulcano, Salina, Filicudi, Alicudi) a masterpiece of nature.

The rugged volcanic coast in contrast with the cobalt-blue sea shades is a perfect scenery for snorkelling and immersion excursions.
Its pebble beaches (most of them), that alternate with coves and bays along the coast make this place a top-romantic and atmospheric backdrop for a timeless dream honeymoon.

Get inspired by our selection of recommended hotels for a heavenly honeymoon on the Aeolian Islands!

Aerial view of Lipari (Aeolian Islands)

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