4/10 Poor
Rob Hines
1 Aug 2022
Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, listing accuracy
Disliked: Location
Needs to be cooler
Driving to the cottage through the mountains was amazing! The scenery was unbelievable. We have been holidaying in Italy for the last 20 years and the scenery is up there with the best I’ve see.
The cottage itself is very isolated in terms of location and a lot of the little villages surrounding are a 30 min drive, at least. The nearest restaurant is a 20 min drive so not within any walking distance to any decent one’s. The cottage was, in my opinion, very poorly equiped. There was no oven or microwave just a gas hob and with the restaurants being a 30 min drive away this wasn’t ideal, for us anyway. We don’t like to go and eat out every night, its nice to stay at the accomadation, eat in and relax but without an oven its very limiting to what you can cook.
As the cottage was very basic there was no A/C, there was a ceiling fan that served no purpose whatsoever. There were no fans in the cottage either, at night the temps hit the high 20’s and it was impossible to sleep, we just lay in the bed sweating and uncomfortable. Now, I appreciate fully that air conditioning is expensive to fit and expensive to run so a couple of fans would have been appreciated. Also, the bed itself was was a little bigger than a single, think its called a queen size? It just wasn’t big enough. My wife and I are not over weight by any stretch and the bed needed to be a double so you can stretch out, it was a little cramped. This wouldn’t have helped with the heat either.
The pool area was really nice with some magnificent veiws of the mountains and we saw the wild boars at night to. The pool was small but that’s fine, I don’t swim anyway so was perfect for me. The only critisim is it would have been nice to have an umbrella so we could sheild from the sun and not have to lie in it.
Would I go back? No, there needs to be some sort of way to cool down at night. It go that bad we decided to leave a week early, we just wasn’t sleeping at night and it was unbearable.
Rob Hines
Stayed 14 nights in Jul 2022