Villa LOliveto

The view is beautiful, and the house is well maintained, but the listing doesn’t prepare you for the road. It’s about 3 km of steep, bumpy unpaved track, and it needs signs. The pool looked huge in the photos, but was quite different in person. We cleaned up carefully and ran the dishwasher, yet the owner complained about one pot we’d left behind and a torn lounge chair that was already like that when we arrived. What a shame.

The pool is tiny, only reaching a meter at its deepest, and the house is hard to get to. The road is so rough that you could damage a regular car without an off-road vehicle. You need a car to reach the village and its amenities. The view is lovely, but the owner wasn’t welcoming or clear about how to find the house. They kept reminding us we’d booked only three days, since they prefer week-long rentals. I wouldn’t recommend it. The effort isn’t worth it when you can find somewhere in a better area for less money and fewer problems.

The house is roomy and nicely furnished, but the “pool” is more like a tub, and its system is quite noisy. The view is beautiful, though getting there means tackling about 2 km of rough dirt road with steep sections that would challenge an ordinary car.

The house is welcoming and the view is stunning, but several things let the place down. The pool seems large in the photo, yet it’s very small in reality. The owner also complained about finding “a” dirty pot, despite our leaving the house in excellent condition. The steep, uneven access road through the woods is about 2-3 km long, and the listing should have made its condition clear.