Just returned form this hotel and immediately considering compensation from travel broker.
Our romantic break in Venice was as lovely as we could imagine and I would certainly recommend this venture. However, do not stay in this hotel.
The Villa Isabela is an overnight coach stop for travelling pilgrims. It is not a four star hotel to accomidate holiday seekers.
I could write a full account of our stay but i think i'ts best saving for our holiday broker, who shall remain nameless for now. But bear in mind they are a household name.
The facts are:
1. Any commuting on foot or public transport is dangerous due to no pavements and busy highway.
2. The host will offer lift from train station at the end of your day and charge you up to 30 Euros.
3. If you eat an evening meal, you will get a bowl of pasta in tomato sauce thrown at you. 50 Euros.
4.The staff are completely untrustworthy and argue openly in front of you. They dont speak English if you complain or mention receipts or question their charges. But believe me, they know every word said!
5. The staff are abrupt and threatening. We had our backs up every night. Their is a feeling of vulnerability about the place due to the staff and the isolation. If you think of the film Psycho, but with less chance of getting away, then you're on the right lines.
6. The breakfast is not a breakfast. It is a gesture of dried sweet cakes in plasic wrappers.
7. The rooms are nothing like any of the pictures you will see. It is a hostel, not a hotel.
8. The Argentinian beef restaurant, is open five nights a week, and is just like a real restaurant but three times more expensive.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but hopefully enough to prevent anybody else being fooled into thinking they can have a relaxing holiday here. The remoteness and vulnerability with the staff is real and we where genuinly concerned when tensions where high, due to our own safety. For two nights, we where the only guests, and surrounded by the staff. These guys are really on the take from you and there are no free rides. Having served the armed forces in a number of inhospitable places, I was tested to the limit here with personal and financial wellbeing, In short, avoid this hotel.

5nights too long. A HORRIBLE HOTEL!!!!! The location is out of the way away from busy tourists. Bus stand not far walking distance, not bad. However a rubbish hotel, because: The room I paid for was a double 4 star bed and breakfast. The double bed was not a double, but 2 single beds pushed together, we had backache for the entire holiday. First night the bed was broken, A/C did not work, TV did not work, No Iron, No kettle, No tea, sugar, milk, snack etc. in the room. No drinks in the fridge, Fridge did not work [rubbish]. After all this we ordered 2 cups of tea for 2 nights in the evening, but they charged 50 euros for room service what a bloody rip off. The cutlery and cups were dirty and we did not use them. Myself and my husand was extremely upset and dissapointed. The bathroom was ok, but need a deep clean. Everyday we had bug bites [spider bites] as the room was dirtyand NEEDS A GOOD CLEAN and had webs behind the bed. Breakfast had flies buzzing on it, so we just had some tea, machine did not work properly. DO NOT STAY HERE IT IS NOT 4 STAR, I have been around the world never been to a place like this!!!!!

Stayed 5 nights, the rooms were spacious the bathroom was clean and modern and included a bidet. The hotel is modern and in the countryside. At the end of the hotel in a seperate building is a Argentinian restaurant specialising in beef , but we ate Mostly Pasta at less than ten Euro. Behind that are two large, clean open air swimming pools surrounded by grass. We spent a lot of time there. We had no car, so walked to the local village to catch a bus and train to Venice, Treviso and Padova. The village had a small supermarket and a good take away pizza shop. We got directions from one of the staff who spoke English, we don't speak Italian. Breakfast isn't flash. We would stay again.

Quite possibly the most terrible place I have ever stayed!

It was a nightmare. Just to get the basics such as sheets, towels, bathmat were a challenge. They simply did not want to co-opperate with me. I guess the costs must be too much for their owner.

And the shower was a steel pipe sticking out of the wall.

Breakfast was dismal at best.

If they were to be a change their attitude towards customers, things could change. (Note they said that this has been how they have been doing things for 20 years. Though I imagine that in this case some things will never change).