I went to Terme di Saturnia with my then friend-girl (we were just friends), she is now my fiancee. I booked this hotel because I saw it on the pages of "Small Luxury Hotels of the World" and it just looked fantastic. I've never been to Italy at the time and I guess that may have some influence on me. We arrived in Rome with our luggage LOST! With no luggage, we drove our rental car and headed off to Terme di Saturnia. I love driving and had wanted to drive an Alfa Romeo 156 but ended up with a Fiat, oh well. I also bought a GPS and was completely relying on it to work in Italy, well, guess what, wrong software and we were on our own with a map. The whole drive took almost 2.5 hours at night with the 2 of us driving in pitch black darkness in the country side with nothing but our head lights. It was nothing short of a MIRACLE that we found the place without missing even one turn! There was something strange while on the way there... what's with all the wondering cats?? The hotel was expecting us and after we checked in, they found out we did not have our luggage, they gave us 2 suites of warm up to tie us over until our luggage arrive (the luggage never came, just when we thought all hope was lost, the luggage showed up in our hotel in Florence, yet another miracle). I awoke the next morning to a beautiful view of the Tuscany country; there was a town perched on top of a near by hill and farms dotted the landscape. I had to rub my eyes in disbelieve in the beauty I had found myself in, it was just amazing. Our room was fantastic, just like the picture in the advertisement, as a matter of fact, I think we stayed in that exact same room! The room was large, clean and up to date. There was also a golf course but it doesn't look like a nice one (I am a single handicapper). The breakfast buffet was fit for royalty. Everything was fresh, healthful, and delicious with plenty of variety. We had to buy our swim wear at the hotel shop (super expensive, but what can we do? my friend-girl's suite was super expensive but super sexy, those Italians sure knows how to design sexy swim suites, she still wears that suite to this day, and she is super sexy!). I read the review that told people to stay away, but I guess when I was there, it was the low season and there was barely anybody there and everything was just wonderful. The natural pool was hot, soothing and , yes, stinky but it did not bother us. We also had a chance to walk around the surrounding country side and visit an abandoned farm house; everything was just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! We drove to a nearby town, about 30 minutes away to buy some underwear (no luggage, remember?) and I ended up missing my spa session but my friend-girl had hers and she was completely happy with it (the underwear we bought were also super sexy, I guess everything Italian is sexy, and we also still wear them to this day). It is true that there seemed to be no restaurant anywhere in the surrounding area but the hotel restaurants offered us in-room dining since all we had were our warm up suits. Other than the steak (American steaks are just tough to beat), the food was outstanding!
Overall, Terme di Saturnia was not easy to get to but once you are there, you will be amazed at what is offered. I guess with the right frame of mind and going in the low season is also a good thing; we didn't see any kids, just maybe 30 other guests, if that. Also, they don't seem to get a whole lot of Asian visitors; we get curious stares, not unfriendly or unpleasant, but definitely curious. Also, be careful of who you go with, you might also end up with a fiancee like me!
- Spa Terme Di Saturnia
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