We stayed at Club Med Kamarina in the hotel end of May/early June, one adult and one seven year old boy. We have been at other Club Meds (Ixtapa, Sandpiper), and are going to Club Med Cancun this December, so we are familiar with the Club Med format. Club Med Karmarina in quite huge, the largest Club Med. It has a hotel with balconies and one or two story villagio buildings (no private outside space ionteh Villagio) to stay in. The hotel has its own separate beach and pool (smaller than the main one), bar, and restaurant and is somewhat more oriented toward adults than children. The hotel is a bit dated, although the rooms have been done again fairly recently; the third (top) floor is currently being refurbished as luxury suites. I recommend asking to stay in the wing nearest the hotel pool (hotel is shaped like a very open V), as it is quieter and has far better views. If you are on the first floor with sea view you need to be at the very end of the hall (nearest to the pool) to actually see the sea. The other wing’s sea views are not as nice as they also look out over some drab buildings and poly-tenting farms not on Club Med land (and which surely were not there when the hotel was built). That wing’s garden views aren’t as nice as the other’s either, so really push to get the wing near the pool. The villagio rooms are more dated in décor and are rather dark – but very centrally located unlike the hotel. It can take about 15 minutes to get from the hotel to the children’s club for example. The main pool is enormous and there are copious loungers on various tiers. The main beach has boating, café, bar etc and is nice (but not nearly as nice as Ixtapa’s beach, which is grand). Kamarina also has a nice minigolf course, as well as all the sports etc they advertise on the web. Staff at the mini club were a bit hit and miss but the ‘misses’ were still OK (again at Ixtapa they were all fantastic). All languages were spoken at the mini clubs. It was British school half term, but not French or Italian, so not many non-British school age children were there. Kamarina was not full our week, but the day before we left there was a huge influx as it is an Italian holiday and became a lot more crowded (but still lots of space). Overall English-only speakers will be fine at Kamarina, although a bit of French or Italian helps if you can, especially when G O s sit at your table. Kamarina is certainly three tridents only – could do with updating the villagio rooms, hotel halls, and some widespread fresh paint, but truthfully after the first day’s running around you won’t care or notice. The public areas’ toilets/washrooms are all very new and well-designed. As seasoned Club Med-ders know, you only sleep in your room anyhow. One thing – the welcoming point building when you get off the bus is quite the worst part – don’t lose heart! (Club Med should tear this down and rebuild – it gives a unnecessarily poor first impression). All the Club Med favourites are here at Kamarina (I hear they’ve done away with some of this at Cancun, that’s bad!); crazy signs, mad quizzes, pool aerobics, trapeze shows, family tournaments, singer/keyboardist playing Volare to great audience appreciation, cheesy (but well choreographed) evening shows. They tried out a new show when we were there – a Western show. I thought, what, a French Western? Hmm. But actually it was a spaghetti western (mais oui!), and that aspect was quite amusing, complete with twangy music and stylised slo-mo fighting between Goodies and Baddies. Michele the Chef de Village is everywhere and he is quite friendly. Restaurants/ cafes are plentiful (5) – ‘Volcano’ specialises in italian buffet and we loved this. ‘Dune’ is best for families w/ children and largest. Food was good and plentiful, good seafood. Less fresh fruit than the other Club Meds we have seen though. Weather – take note that it can be very windy in Sicily, and for three days it blew so much although sunny that you could not use the beach for the incredible whipping sand in the air, and the water was red flag so no swimming/sailing. There was heavy competition around the pool for the comparatively sheltered areas! Lots of excursions on offer, which we did not take up as the bus ride was always about 2 hours and my son wouldn’t stand for it on top of the 2 hour bus ride getting there from the airport in the first place. So overall, we certainly enjoyed ourselves; however next spring half term I think we’ll try Club Med Palmiye in Turkey.