Good points: very clean hotel. Pleasant staff.

Bad points:
location impossible without a car.

No food other than breakfast same every day.

Hotel deserted most of time as seems to be used by people en route to somewhere else. Hence ok for an overnight but wouldn't recommend it for a week's holiday. No atmosphere at all in hotel.

Walls are paper thin so sleep difficult as every time a shower is taken or a toilet is flushed in neighbouring room, sounds like a waterfull coming through the walls.

Village of Pietranera - one pizzeria in a very uninteresting, characterless village - not worth visiting.

This is a lovely hotel with really nice staff, very clean and well cared for but for some reason, which I now realise, it appeared to be empty most of the time. We were there for a week but hardly saw another soul, the receptionist had to open up the bar to serve us a drink and there really wasn't anything to keep us in the hotel apart from the pool, which was nice. They don't do any food at all apart from a continental breakfast which is exactly the same every day (juice, croissants, bread and jam) and if you are there for a week it gets boring as there is nothing else to choose from. If you decide to have a pool day, remember to bring sandwiches from the village as you can't even get a bag of crisps here!

There are very limited places to eat in the evening in the local area. Don't be fooled by the description of the footpath from the hotel down to the village - it's really several flights of unlit concrete steps down to parade of shops with a pizzeria which actually does good food, worth knowing if you can't be bothered to go into Bastia. Other than that, the village itself is really a collection of shops along a main road, nothing to write home about at all.

On balance, this is a great hotel for people who are touring and want somewhere to stay which is immaculately clean with friendly staff (all three of them) and nice pool area, just for a couple of days or so. We didn't realise this before we booked, and wished we'd found somewhere else with a bit more going on where we could have walked to local beaches, restaurants, cafes, etc., but this area is mainly residential with hardly any facilities at all unfortunately. Although our brochure said a car was not needed, it definitely was if you intended to eat anything, ever, otherwise you would be getting a taxi or bus into Bastia all the time.

My advice? If you want more of a holiday hotel in a lovely setting, go up the road to Erbalunga and get booked into the Castel Brando. If you're touring the area and just want somewhere clean and comfortable to rest your weary bones, the Pietracap is fine. But bring biscuits.

Wonderful hotel. The rooms were spacious and the one we stayed in had a magnificent view from the balcony. The staff were simply lovely and so helpful. Can't fault it. It is just 3mins outside Bastia in a lovely quiet location. Perfect if you don't want to be in the busy centre.

We stayed at this hotel for four nights in Aug 2007. I have to say, the rooms are quite a bit shabbier and older than they look on the website. The pool is very nice, as are the gardens, but the hotel location is remote, and they don't offer any food service except croissant for breakfast.

The front desk staff was very friendly and so helpful! The hotel was almost deserted, and we were there in high season, not sure if that's
a sign of their location?

The view from ur room was awesome - we could see the water from our patio!