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Very disappointing. Room and eating score very low.||Our room #21 was poor. The bathroom was so small you had to put your right knee under the basin to sit on it; it was poorly lit especially in the shower cubicle; the water pressure in the shower was dire.||Then there was virtually no hanging space for clothes due to the safe being moved upward from its designated area. Why? The telephone did not work - but was quite quickly rectified. The sitting area was weird due to steel frames being loose around the seats such that they crashed on the wall and gave no support. The aircon looked like a later addition and blew across the room so the right hand side of the bed was cooler than the other.||Noise. They cannot be blamed for guests who move furniture at night, but there are no carpets and twice we were woken by the people above. Doors crashed all the time given their weight and echoed down the stone passage way. Add to that the staff area opposite the #21 door where staff change to go home at midnight and arrive at six thirty next morning and sleep quality was poor. A dire room allocation for the only guests who stayed a week while we were there.||Eating. Breakfast was ok but this is a very pricey offering and the quality of ingredients from bread to cheeses was average. But the two big issues were that they ran out of breakfast tea on day 1 of our seven, saying it was coming in. It never did. End of season? We bought our own. The waiters work hard but getting coffee is so slow. No machine. All orders individually fulfilled. On our last day the fruit bowl which had been good had just two apples in it!||Dinner. Do not stay long. Read their menu online first. There are just 4 starters followed by 4 pastas and 6 mains. The dishes of the day repeat too often. The tuna croquet came twice, the spaghetti vongole 3 times, the octopus 3 times. Most guests and I think 5* reviews must be for 3 or less nights. The place is remote and a night drive quite a challenge but in Porto San Stefano there are great restaurants at least 60% less costly and far better menus.||The dinner set up was dire. You arrive to find most of the inside windows open and tables on the terrace, but the temperature is 15 and falling to 13 by 22.00 and the wind is blowing. Why you pay their prices to eat their not very exciting food outside beats me. But we did not have 4 layers to wear like some who came in puffer jacket and boots to brave it. Shortly after our week we both became ill with chills that we fought to avoid ruining our next week in Lazio. The after effects still linger. Autumn months pack woollens! Again just two wait staff, sommelier and manager. At least one staff short.||The local area is nice. But, there is no “beach”. It is a nice sheltered bay highly developed, with deckchairs not loungers, that are crammed on shelves like terraces that have been constructed to face south. You swim from ladders. It feels claustrophobic. The same to a much lesser extent applies to the pool area. When full you are in serried ranks! Flies are an issue at least in September - bring a spray. They cannot help it but perched on such a lovely spot with that view there is no land that could be used to space people and their conversations out. ||I thought the staff were very good 5* but a week costing over €4,500.00 was very poor value looking back at so many excellent weeks in this great country where we spent around the same money. This was planned as unwind week. You can see how it felt!!
