Villa Speranza

Parking is available, but the rooms felt dated and weren’t very well maintained. Breakfast was very limited and poor. The pictures online don’t show what it’s actually like: breakfast is minimal, and the restaurant is closed and abandoned. The stay was manageable, but I wouldn’t repeat it.

Three stars as encouragement. The owners are kind and helpful, and the place is clean and decent, but quite a few small things need attention, especially privacy and soundproofing outside the room. If you stay on a night with karaoke and line dancing under the window, you’ll hear it until 2 a.m. and feel like everyone’s in your room. That deserves a discount or better treatment, like dinner included. Breakfast needs work too.

A stay to avoid. In the middle of August we arrived to find the air conditioner broken, and only heard about it after paying in cash because the POS wasn’t working. It was repaired the next day, after we’d spent half the night on the veranda in the scorching heat. The WiFi was also on the list of problems, and never worked, not even in the days that followed. We got just one small bottle of shower gel for two people over three days, with none of the daily complimentary shower kits with gel, shampoo, and so on that you’d expect at a proper three-star B&B. Breakfast was included in the price, but the owner told us on arrival that anti-Covid regulations meant it couldn’t be served. We would have expected a voucher for a local café, or at least a small refund, since we’d paid for a service we didn’t get. What puzzled us was seeing a tray of toast and a snack, both wrapped in cellophane in line with the regulations, plus a small bottle of water in the hallway on our last morning, apparently ready for other guests. The property also wasn’t clean. Overall, a stay to avoid.

We’ve just left. The rooms smell of mold. The price we agreed on included breakfast, WiFi, and daily room cleaning, but there was no internet or breakfast, and the room was cleaned only every other day. We never saw the hosts, so we messaged them and got no reply. When we were leaving the room, they were cleaning; we told them we were going, and they didn’t even say a word. In my country, it’s so rude to pay ahead that they won’t even let you pack your bags when you arrive. Recognition, money... yay. There’s a saying that people who pay first get poor service. This isn’t a B&B run with family passion, but with family interest! Mold, mate.