this hotel is set in lovely grounds with swimming pool. very clean and serves very good food. staff are very friendly and helpful. would deffinatley stay here again.

Lovely hotel in the area. I didn't mind the small one window room as we stayed in the room just to sleep. The room was a bit cramped but very clean, and the house keeping great. The staff was also very helpful. Nice bathrooms, too! The pools are clean, and well taken care of. The hotel manages to keep the surroundings very green by watering the lawn. The restaurant wasn't bad either. I was able to taste some local dishes without having to travel to find a restaurant after a long day of sightseeing. I did mind the music playing until 2-3 o'clock in the morning. Also, breakfast was scarse if you got to the dining room too late. I recommend this hotel.

We stayed in September as a couple looking for a relaxing break with a bit of sightseeing. Arrived late evening to find that our room was claustrophobic and had no window, but the very helpful receptionist promised another room in the morning.

So far so good, this hotel delivers apppropriately given its 3-star status. It is chalet-style in a small well-tended garden with a very clean pool. Our room the next day was still not great, with rather basic furniture and still a little small and dark. Bathroom tiled and very clean, towels changed daily. The bed was two twins pushed together, wtih so-so mattresses. Room had a tiled floor and whitewashed walls, a bit tatty round the edges but kept very clean. No reception on the small TV. The aircon was new and worked well, but because of the tiny windows and shiutters, room was pleasant temperature most of the time. Its certainly not a place to spend a romantic break in! Outside areas are pleasant, well-tended gardens but only basic plastic sunloungers, the pool area clean but somewhat charmless and the pool was very cold.

The restaurant looks like something out of Fawlty towers and was empty except on Saturday and Sunday night when local families come here to party which means after 9pm you have great difficulty getting a table. But don't let the eerie emptiness of the restaurant on most nights fool you, the food is excellent local food, the best we had on our week-long holiday in Italy. They do a set menu every day but you can eat a la carte at any time. Prices are very good, from 4 EURO for a decent pizza to 4 EURO for a litre of very drinkable wine! The only disappointment was breakfast, a rahter lacklustre affair with mostly stale bread and a diminishing choice of cheese and meats. No fresh fruit for breakfast, which surprised me since it can be bought cheaply at the markets.

A few staff (one of teh receptionists and one of the waiters in the evening) speak excellent English but if you're unlucky then you will need to speak a bit of Italian to make yourself understood!

While we were there, there were no noisy functions except a bit of inside line dancing one night that finsihed just after midnight, so no problems with noise, but as some previous posters observed, the bungalows ARE very close to the restaurant, and as indoors smoking is banned in Italy, you may find a very large cluster of smokers just outside your bedroom door.

A few words about the area: : Although the hotel is advertised as a Brindisi hotel it is about 35km from Brindisi in the middle of nowhere. You really need a car to get around although there are public buses to Cisternino and Ostuni stopping just outside the hotel. There are no decent beaches to speak of, only slightly dirty coves with a patch of sand and no facilities whatsoever about 10km drive away... so this is not a place to go for a beach break. The adriatic here, however, is clean and pleasant to swim in, but getting tot eh beach a bit of a hassle. All seaside places near the hotel like Villanova or Torrre Sta Sabina are rather sad looking and would make a good scene for a postapocalyptic movie. My boyfriend was looking for a nice beachy holiday and was bitterly disappointed. I came to sightsee, and although tehre is not that much to see, the surrounding area is pleasant enough and offers a few quite pleasant towns like Martina Franca and Lecce, and Matera is a 2hr drive away. Not impressed with Ostuni at all despite traipsing thorough its Old Town for a good few hours. Being a fan of Italy, I certainly enjoyed my stay but would not return to Puglia in a rush.

And if you like cats, this is the place for you. The hotel cats will be your friends if you're nice to them.

Oh Wow - My final night prior to flying out was at the Citta Bianca and it absolutely made my weekend. (I'd spent the weekend prior struggling around elsewhere in the region, being ripped off by taxis and generally finding life very difficult!). The staff were lovely, the room great (in-shower jacuzzi!) and surroundings lovely. I was particularly impressed with the front office staff (a girl the first evening and a young man the next morning), who organised an airport shuttle, breakfast and just generally made me feel very welcome.

I wish I'd stayed here the entire time. They have shuttles all over the region for what I now know are very reasonable prices and I'd strongly recommend this place for anyone visiting the area.