Guest User
September 18, 2023
Clean, comfortable and spacious rooms. We stayed here for 3 nights with friends. The hotel isn’t in the best location as there aren’t many amenities nearby apart from a supermarket and pharmacy. We hired a car and would drive into Olbia town which is nice, we had lunch a couple of times and went once for dinner. On day we drove to Palau, which is 1 hour drive away and on the marina front negotiated a great deal with a skipper to take us around the islands. I’d definitely recommend this as its so worth going to see the crystal clear turquoise waters. Amazing! The pool area overlooks a mussel farm and ferry moor which you couldn’t see when you were laying on a sunbed or in the pool. We hired cars so we could explore the Costa Smeralda and I’m very glad we did. We didn’t spend all day by the pool but when we did the pool bar was rarely manned. Nonetheless it was pleasant as we mostly had the pool are to ourselves but expect this is because we went when it was out of season. The pool towel situation is quite strange as they charge you €5 for every clean towel after the first free one. However, having heard of this before when staying at hotels in Sardenia, I wasn’t surprised. We weren’t impacted as we were mostly out during the day. The other strange thing is that they took €300 deposit in case you forgot to pay for drinks or damaged the room. We were refunded at the end of our stay however, I didn’t feel comfortable with this at all. I know most hotels take a credit card number as security but have never heard of taking this at check in. Food choice was sub standard but the quality was ok. It would have been nice to have more choice and not just ‘vegetable soup’ or beef. Considering we were by the coast I would have expected more of a choice of fish, (like bass, bream, salmon, tuna, swordfish) whereas for 2 of the 3 nights we were served cuttlefish. There was a good variety of food at breakfast, none of us had the scrambled eggs as they looked off colour. But the rest of the choice was good. The staff were mostly pleasant. We were mostly served by a great waiter, Silvestre who worked so hard everyday and made us feel comfortable. All in all, as far as 4 star hotels in Italy go, it was comfortable, clean with ok food. Would consider staying again.