Apartments in Cala Gonone

The hotel complex is nice, with a lot of greenery and big pool. It is located on a hill and walking between pool / restaurant and your room involves walking up and down the hill. This hotel is good for vacation but if you want to travel around and explore the island don’t stay there - you need to travel via narrow mountain road with a lot of steep and sharp rounds every time to and back. It takes an hour in one direction to get to a normal road and then depends on where you are going another 1-3 hours. Food - not good at all. Has nothing to do with the local cuisine. Tasteless, not fresh. Staff is not nice. If you travel and need to get a beg food - better don’t. For breakfast they put a bottle of water, 3 cookies and jam. For dinner, when we come back later and they were waiting us to serve “warm” fresh food, they served a slice of mortadella, cold rice, a red pepper and half boiled potato also cold. Rooms desperately need refurbishment. Not quite clean. Small ants are on the night table. Bathroom is big but shower is so tiny and small you can’t turn around in. Staff is very unpleasant and not supportive. When we arrived by buss, there were 4 reception desk open but they worked so slowly that it took more than 15min per person to check in. Then we had to wait a single golf car to take each one of us to our villa. We had to talk to the manager as one of the rooms was under the stair case with 3 air conditioning units under the window and was very noisy so we asked replacement. The receptionist said that they will check tomorrow. We asked for the manager and he said the same - today they are fully booked and will check tomorrow. When I asked why tomorrow, they know what they have booked, he said he’s busy and can’t deal with us now. Then they never called and we had to keep that room till the end.

Positive points : ＞ Good location, in the centre. ＞ Personnel gentleness ＞ Small lunch Negative points : ＞ Older room ＞ Room ”super with sea view”: see the photo for ”sea view”. With the term ”super” it is not all appropriate. The room was very small, with defecting equipment (one lamp worked). One seat when we were two, no table. We asked for it, but it was never provided. The balcony was more than rich, and we were so close to the street that all the passants had seen the room... ＞ TV: ridiculously small (small than a computer screen). ＞ quiet: room on the street. In addition, we were unquestionably awakened by household women who do not care about the rest of the guests and are discussing heavyly behind the door (when they don't come hit to ask us to let them do the room as soon as 8 a.m.).

Well what a surprise we had, we booked a 3 night stay through a half board deal with Voyage Prive, I was open minded as it represented such good value but it exceeded our expectation. The hotel is extremely efficient and catered for all of our needs, some might argue that it isn't in a fantastic location perched high on a hill overlooking the town and sea but this is it's advantage. From what we could see it attracts motorbike enthusiasts from all over Europe along with hikers, most were of a certain age. The hotel has a relaxed atmosphere and is generally quite. Our room was adequate and immaculately clean. The staff can't do enough for you and spoke good english, much to our surprise. We eat out often and cook at home, cooking has become our hobby so we're quite critical but I have to say that the food was outstanding. Thank you for a short but wonderful stay.

Beautiful resort. I cannot emphasize that enough. The gardener was out every day. It is stunning. The staff were INCREDIBLE. Couldn't do enough for us. They were chatty, loved talking to our toddler and giving her lots of attention. The manager was so kind and helpful. To be honest all the staff were. The cleaners were wonderful. They couldn't speak a word of English but we worked around the language barrier fine, they adored our daughter and one even gave her little kisses each time she saw her. Anyway that is the staff. The breakfast buffet was amazing. There was so much choice and it was beautifully displayed. They cater to vegetarians and coeliacs very well. The rooms look a little dated but the mattress was so comfortable. I slept amazing while there and I suffer from insomnia!! Laundry service is €15 for a fairly large bag and is ready the following morning all clean and not creased. The only thing I can say that is negative is we were supposed to be poolside but were not. This is an issue we will take up with *********** though. Manager was so good and changed our room. All in all. Spectacular place. 15 min walk to beach / marina. 2 small supermarkets 5 minute walk. Oh and the wildlife is stunning. We had swifts flying down to the pool when we swam. Collared doves, hooded crows, swallowtail butterflies. Highly recommend!!