I booked this hotel as a nice break for my fiancés birthday. The hotel is very modern structure set in the Tuscan countryside with good facilities (we were primarily interested in the indoor & outdoor swimming pools). The rooms are of a good size and with air-conditioning. There two floor levels; the top floor rooms having a balcony and the lower a small garden area. The ground level rooms are less secluded as the gardens are only separated by wooden lattice frames.

Everything was fine until we went for dinner that we had booked with the hotel. The food that was served was simply terrible.

The ‘menu of the day’ (incidentally I noticed was the same menu as the previous day) had a choice of three starters and three main courses. I chose the seafood linguine to start with, and the dish looked and tasted like it had been cooked many hours previously and had been kept on the heat – the squid, prawns and parsley had all turned a brownish colour. Not nice. The other dishes were equally poor. The food that was served here seemed like a cynical exercise in cost cutting.

If my fiancé and I had not had anything to drink, we would have left and tried to find an alternative.

It is a shame, the hotel is otherwise fine (if perhaps a little expensive for what it is) and would be perfect place to take young children. But the fact that the restaurant food is so bad, and the nearest restaurant (in Casole d’Elsa) is 4km away means that I can not really recommend a visit.