Relais Monastero Santa Teresa - Albergo Diffuso

Great stay in December for a week! The price is great for what you get- spacious rooms, fantastic location, etc. we paid the €10 a day for parking and HIGHLY suggest doing that if you have a car! Their spots are in the centro storico and made our week so much easier! We used their laundry services which too- they had our clothes back to us within 24 hours and it was extremely affordable. Wonderful local hotel with an excellent price point!

Nardo is most definitely a hidden gem - it's quite a small city, packed with historic churches as well as palazzi, many now converted to hotels. The Relais Monastero is one of those with the renovation being magnificent. The rooms are large and mostly well appointed (they could do with more bench space in the bathroom). Service was very good and knowledgeable, especially as to the best local restaurants. The breakfast was lovely, with many local products and produce. We took the option of paying for parking at a garage the hotel owns(about 50m away) which overcame the problem that would otherwise arise of trying to find a park. That turned out to be the best €10 per day we spent!

We stayed for one night in beautiful - less crowds a lot to see and less fancy. We stayed for one night at the very nicely redone monastery with all the comfort you need but not loosing its origin. Patio to have breakfast outside, frescoes on the ceilings of our room great location in the city center - to be recommended

Place itself is very beautiful, charming. But breakfast was the poorest we had during our honeymoon in Italy. Receptionist was friendly and helpful- gave great recommendations for restaurants in Nardo.

Ideally there would be an option to give half points - I was torn between 3 and 4 and would have given 3.5 if possible. ||The positives, first:|-The building is beautiful. It was delightful to wander around the public rooms. |-The lady on reception, whose name we could not remember, was lovely. She was friendly, informative and animated.|-The room was quiet and peaceful.|-Bed and pillows very comfortable - not as common an occurrence as it should be.|-Nardo itself is a very beautiful town. It had still not fully opened after Winter, and finding places to eat etc was sometimes a bit challenging but the town itself was full of architectural beauty and interest.||And the not so positives: |-The plumbing in the shower was virtually non-functional. We live in a very large house ourselves and understand the difficulties of pumping water round miles of pipes. But even so, something needs to be done here. The shower was one of those with a subsidiary nozzle where you have to press a button to make the water come out of the overhead nozzle. Except that it didn't reliably - during one shower, the water dropped out from the overhead nozzle about ten times. Probably that is because the pressure is lamentable - the flow rate was so bad it felt like standing in drizzle. And it took about 3 minutes for hot water to reach the shower - at first we thought there was no hot water and eventually worked out that you had to turn the shower on, go off and do something else like clean your teeth, and then return. Overall, not good enough - a hotel which charges 100 euros in the off season should offer a proper shower.|-The room, especially the bathroom, was looking a bit knocked about and in need of attention. The floor of the shower was a beautiful mosaic, and the basin an old marble affair, which were absolutely lovely, but the paintwork was a bit tatty.|-There was not a feeling of generosity - everything over and above the room rate came with an extra charge. Even the bottles of water in the room. We stayed in other places on the trip and they all came with free water. One even came with a complementary bottle of wine and a couple of pasticciotto.

We LOVED this place!!! Absolutely beautiful. We were touring Puglia but we weren't so sure about Nardo because we hadn't heard much about it. This place is a beautiful hidden gem - with beautifully restored rooms that feel like you are living in a palace, or a museum. You feel that you are staying in the most romantic place in Nardo and maybe in the Puglia area. Professional and helpful staff. This was a dream for the 3 days we stayed here.

This is a beautiful hotel and amazing value. The rooms are large and airy. The furniture and artworks give the place a wonderful atmosphere. The breakfasts are fantastic - homemade cakes and pastries were beautiful and eggs/omelettes cooked to order were a treat. The staff deserve a special mention though. They really gave 5-star service. They were friendly and very helpful, sorting out transfers for us because we had a problem hiring a car. I can't recommend this hotel highly enough. We will definitely be going back there again!

We feel so lucky to have been able to stay in this former monastery with its incredible rooms. Such high ceilings and frescos. Breakfast was in such a beautiful setting we spent the whole meal pointing out amazing features in the room. I would not hesitate to recommend, especially if you don't mind stairs!