nice hotel, unpretentious and nice - on wonderful beach with some of the best swimming..

good restaurant right next door.

This is not a highly romantic, opulent o=r atmospheric place - but perfect for enjoying the great beach right in front and appealing rooms.

This hotel is on the beach - all the rooms and suites seem to face the sea and beach. It was nice to lie in bed and look out each morning as the "beach boy" swept the perfect golden sand around all sun beds whilst the sea lapped in gently :-)

Staff, rooms and location are all perfect.

For dinner or lunch there must be 8 or so eating places beside the hotel - ranging from luxurious to pizza/pasta, depending on what you felt like.

Its not cheap but definitely one to come back to.

Le Pinarello is a wonderful hotel, located near a very nice beach and only 20 minutes away by car from Palombaggia and Porto Vecchio center. I have stayed a few days in the Ruscana suite, which was amazing, very large, and nicely decorated. However, I also stayed a few nights in a standard room, which had a very nice view on the beach, but which also was very small and not so well decorated ... In my opinion, if you go for the Standard rooms, you might be disappointed by the room, but the rest is excellent (hotel amenities, front beach, excellent staff service, spa, etc ...). I would recommend it, although it is an expensive hotel (around 450 eur per night in sumer).

After doing lots of research of hotels In Corsica, we decided to stay at Le Pinarello because they were the only property (at the time of booking) that had an ocean view room...boy are we glad!
Not only was our room literally on top of the sand, the entire property was beautiful. They have no more than 30 rooms, the staff was absolutely lovely, our room was cleaned on time every day, turn down service/fresh towels at night, they gave us a complimentary Champagne bottle + fruit basket as it was our honeymoon and I could just keep complementing them forever!!

The location; the hotel sits on a small street on Porto Vecchio, right next to it are a few restaurants (high end "Le Rouf" and "Sel et Fleur") which were both excellent as well as some moderate priced places right next to them.
The hotel has most of their rooms only a few meters away from the beach, while their suites are across the street. The beach had beach chairs and umbrellas readily available and it was reserved for hotel guests as other tourists never came our way.

The staff; from the front desk to the maid to the valet I just have to say "WOW". My French is very basic but they all spoke English well enough that I never had any issues (My wife is French and came to my rescue several times though). Every one was happy to help every day.

The "other hotels"; we took the time to go around the island and check out the other properties we were looking at prior to booking Le Pinarello and none were "as advertised". We feel that Le Pinarello indeed has the best location of any beach hotel in all of Porto Vecchio and Saint Giulia.

Le Pinarello --- we will be back! Thanks for making us feel welcomed!