Wonderful experience - We make the visit with my son (20 years). It was wonderful! The landscape is unbelievable! We had a great, sympathic, attentionated guide, Daniela. Everything was perfect ! Thank you!

Enjoyable Etna Experience - Enjoyed the tour, and knowledgeable guide added to whole experience. Pretty straightforward, drive to 2000 meter where there is a whole tourism type set up with shops and parking. Get cable car to 2500 mtr and then 4WD bus to 2750mtr which is furthest you can go. Short walk to ox crator. Cave was a bit underwhelming but interesting to learn how they form and the extent to which they riddle the area. Visit for honey tasting was also good and bought some local fare. Points to note, need light jacket as temp drops the higher you go. No harm in taking a packed lunch. Can be cloudy/misty at 2750mtr so you may not really see much. If misty do keep every one in sight as can get lost.

Not to be missed if you are in Sicily - We did the crater tour with Simon, just my wife and I, and it was outstanding. He drove us to all the places that mattered, and a highlight was the lava tube. HIs English was fantastic, and his knowledge of the place and its history was outstanding. When we declined climbing a more strenuous walk to the summit, he took us the a smaller but flatter crater down the hill. Had we been younger or in better shape we could have had all the hiking we wanted. Instead, it was prefect for our legs. I recommend this tour (also 1. leave early in the morning for the site before the cruiseboat tourists swamp the place. 2. It is VERY windy up top and I had a jacket but could have used a hooded sweatshirt as well.

Etna 2900 crater excursion - We had a great visit to Mount Etna through Etna Excursions. Unfortunately Etna was very active on our visit so it was impossible to visit the crater rim, but getting up to 2900 meters was really cool and allowed an excellent view of Etna spitting rocks and smoke. The rumbles, fumeroles and sulfurous smoke made this a multi sensory experience! This particular tour is not at all physically demanding - involving cable cars and jeeps from Rifugio Sapienza up to 2900 mt and back down again. It was cold and windy at 2900 so even if allowed I think the 3300 mt visit to the summit with my kids (very fit and active 11, 8 years) would have been a bit much. After, we drove to a lava cave and a flow and wrapped up with a visit to a small wine/honey/olive/oil tasting room. Our private (an unexpected surprise!) guide, Florinda, was excellent from the advance communicarion to the knowledge she shared about Etna's history and geology as well as its impact on the region. She was also great with our kids and took really good pics of us :). Overall, the excursion was excellent - the mountain was brilliant and the cave and flow were interesting and educational. The tasting was also nice and fun for the kids - there is no pressure to buy, but the products were quality and we did as they made good souvenirs. Communication with the company was excellent - we had several informative exchanges via WhatsApp before I booked - they were very responsive, informative and professional. Note that the price of the excursion does not include the cable car and 4x4 vans up the mountain, that is an extra 66/50 euro per adult/kid so this excursion isn't cheap approaching 400euro for the family, but it was worth it. Afterwards, we returned to the lava flow ourselves and did a nice hike up a side path and then through the lava field to get some extra exercise. This was a great way to finish our day. Careful of the sheepdogs guarding the flock - they take their jobs very seriously!