Villa Ghislanzoni Curti

The staff were very kind and everything was well organized. Breakfast was very good, and having it in the gardens on a sunny day was lovely. The Villa itself is outstanding, but the room area felt dusty, old-fashioned, and without charm. It’s great if you’re attending a wedding at the venue, since it’s right next door. Otherwise, I wouldn’t come for a weekend.

Villa Ghislanzoni is beautifully kept, preserving the old features while being modernized for what you need. Everywhere you look there’s another picturesque view. We spent two weeks at the Villa, and it was an unforgettable holiday. Lorenzo and his family have made a little paradise of their heirloom. In the hot weather, we were glad to have air conditioning in the apartment, and the pool was refreshing. The owners and their employees were always around to help. The area is great for day trips within an hour’s drive: we went to Padua, Venice, the beach at the lido, the Opera in Verona, Lago di Garda (Sirmione), Bassano del Grappa for rafting on the Brenta, and Vicenza. We especially liked being among the Italians in Vicenza instead of surrounded by tourists like at Garda Lake. Thank you for such a great stay!

We booked the Mulino after the owners suggested upgrading from the Limonaia. The Limonaia sleeps six and would have been enough for our five, but the Mulino was advertised as allowing parties and functions. We told Mr Curtis from Australia before booking that we hoped to have a small afternoon gathering for relatives after my mother’s funeral service, when we were returning her ashes to her home country. We were told it would be fine and there was plenty of parking. We wouldn’t have arranged something so important all the way from Australia without checking first. The gathering was in the courtyard, which had been advertised as private, but wasn’t private at all. Management had problems with our guests and was rude to them. There were about 15-20 people, including the five of us staying there, and we’d booked an apartment that sleeps eight. In a response to our review on another site, management claimed our guests used the volleyball courts and soccer fields. We didn’t even know there was a soccer field or volleyball court, and this was a funeral, so we weren’t there to play ball games. Management also complained publicly that our guests stayed the whole afternoon and said, rudely, that we should have held the gathering at a relative’s home because this wasn’t a public playground, despite advertising that parties and events were allowed. The Wi-Fi didn’t work, and management didn’t even try to fix it. In their response to our review on another site, they said it worked and that they came to check, but that isn’t true. I’d be happy to show our receipts for the expensive mobile data we had to pay for to keep up with work emails. Cleanliness was questionable, and management was difficult and rude overall. We wouldn’t recommend this place. If we’d known how management would behave, we would’ve stayed in a small apartment in central Vicenza for a fraction of the price and booked a restaurant for the family gathering. We’d have been better off financially and spared the embarrassment with our relatives.

Found this place at the last minute on Booking.com, and it’s AWESOME! My apartment had everything I needed. It was clean, quiet, spacious, and friendly, with free gated parking and free Wi-Fi.