Guest User
October 11, 2023
The place is just stunning, with lovely gardens, immense olive groves, the biggest and most beautiful swimming pool I've ever seen et cetera. The staff is extraordinarily competent and pleasant. They know exactly who you are and what you want. For example, we organised a wine-tasting for our group of nine, and the staff came up with all kinds of brilliant ideas to make it a great success. Why then serve lousy food? If you keep the high season menu during off-season - we were there in October - you obviously cannot keep up the same standards. For example, several of us took a fish dish with flakes of almond. It was dry, had little taste nor flavour, and had clearly come straight out of the freezer. Nevertheless, I managed to eat almost half my portion. For starters, some of us had a seafood dish with mussels, clams, croutons etc. For some reason, virtually all the shells were empty, with the poor animals lying at the bottom of the huge dish. The croutons was the best part. Admittedly, some of us were quite pleased with their food. Another surprising thing, the furniture. Some of it was of the darkish and heavy kind, typical for the late 19th century in Italy. Very boring. The rest of the furniture was more modern but insignificant.