My Favorite Airbnb Experience: A Sicily Boat Tour to the Egadi Islands

For practically eight hrs, my family—plus 6 other attendees, with whom we grew to become rapidly friends—basked in the solar and sea, generating stops alongside the coastlines of two islands, Favignana and Levanzo. We pulled into cyan-colored bays, where we leapt into the drinking water and watched silvery fish swim past by means of our snorkels (which had been furnished on board). We anchored beside an previous tuff quarry on the south bluffs of Favignana, wherever we swam to shore and padded by interesting caves studded with fossilized shells. Occur lunch, we docked by Favignana’s previous tuna cannery, the place we were being specified a pair hrs to explore on shore—we had uni-rich pasta at a modest trattoria, adopted by crisp Erse white wine on lounge chairs at Camparia. 

In the afternoon, we experienced a opportunity to swim via caves on Levanzo, plucking small mollusks identified as patella from the rocks and popping their briny insides into our mouths (not everybody was a admirer, but it was exciting to attempt). When we plopped on board immediately after our fifth and closing end, our sunburns setting up to tingle, the crew stunned us with Aperol spritzes (soda, beer, and drinking water were also provided in the course of the working day). 

The full experience ran us much less than $100 for each human being (selling prices transform based mostly on day, and the amount of spots you reserve)—a steal, I assumed, for this sort of a total, seafaring day. You could book the total boat out for all around $1,400, but we had been happy to share the area with many others when you might be paying a 7 days with the similar men and women, especially loved ones, it can be pleasant to mingle with other people for a little bit. Our fellow passengers, all from a variety of elements of Europe, had been these kinds of excellent business we had been laughing at jokes they’d created by way of the relaxation of the vacation. 

Are there other organizations that supply identical Sicily boat excursions in the location? Most definitely—you could probably present up and talk to your hotel or Airbnb host to aid you e-book one particular. You may possibly be equipped to snag spots for your full group you may possibly not. You also may possibly get any variable of the encounter, for greater or even worse. For us, it was essential to be in a position to guide progress, and Daniele and his workforce took such terrific care of us. I never assume it could have panned out any much better.