I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I had never heard of White Lotus – until everyone started asking me about Taormina. 

(If you are like me – for background – White Lotus is a TV show on HBO that is set in a fancy hotel chain called “White Lotus.”  The first season was in Hawaii, but the second sesason was set in Toarmina.  White Lotus appears to have a cult-like following.)

When someone first asked me about it, I was puzzled but something clicked into place.  When Frank and I were here last spring, I remembered one of the restaurants said they were closed for “the movie” and there were a bunch a lights around it at night.  I didn’t give it a second thought.  Then, I remembered that I had been a little shocked when I saw that the Four Seasons had sold out to a hotel group I never had heard of called White Lotus.  I was a little disappointed in the Four Seasons. 

Now it all made sense – this was the TV-version of White Lotus.  Here’s a picture from last year – the “White Lotus” is the hotel with the palm trees. When I blow it up on my phone, I can even see the White Lotus sign!

On the street, we hear American tourists exclaim all the time that this place or that in town is from a scene from White Lotus.  We have heard that the hotel itself (back to being a Four Seasons) is “super hot” now and goes for more than $4,000 per night!

Well  . . . this is the view from OUR window – nearly the same view as White Lotus – but I think a little more interesting!

And we have a kitchen, a whole private rooftop deck, and crazily enough – a grand piano.  So, rather than be “super hot,” we will be content to be “low-key cool” in our little VRBO – overlooking White Lotus.