Artemisia

The restaurant was good and the staff were nice. The accommodation, though, felt like rooms attached to a restaurant rather than a hotel. If I were rating the stay alone, I’d give it one star. Parking is on the street, and it wasn’t easy to find a space in the evening. Trains passed very loudly right beside the hotel. On weekends there were parties every night until 1 a.m., followed by cleaning until 2. You also have to pay for a sunbed by the pool, and if people from the city have booked them, you can’t stay by the pool. The room floor, bathtub, windows, and mirror weren’t clean.

The hostess helped us when our daughter wasn’t feeling well, and we appreciated that, along with the breakfast croissants. Even so, we left feeling neglected, and this was a sad end to our holiday in Puglia. The room was very basic and wasn’t maintained during our three-day stay. Breakfast was a quick juice, coffee, and croissant, with no cutlery, protein, yoghurt, fresh bread, or anything else to start a tourist’s day. It wasn’t served until 9 a.m. We’d been woken at 6 by trains passing just three metres away, so that meant waiting three hours. Nighttime parties with loud music and people drinking until 1 a.m. made sleep harder too. The shower gave only a thin trickle of water. We can’t recommend this place to families with kids. Locals also used the pool area, where children ran, jumped, and shouted in the water, and some ate and spat in the pool. Neither their parents nor the staff stepped in. We were extremely disappointed that nobody had warned us about the disruptive noise. Apart from the hostess and a man from Ghana who worked there, we didn’t experience hospitality from the staff.

The rooms were beautiful, the staff lovely and friendly, and the beer and food were good. Excellent!

The food was high quality and incredibly delicious. My two-year-old daughter even devoured the meatballs with raw vegetable gazpacho and the squid ink pasta. The staff looked after us so well and took care of every little detail, with spot-on advice on where to choose. This place really knows hospitality. We’ll be back very soon ❤️