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Contrada Porcari, 96017 Noto, Sicily, Italy
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Hotel Masseria degli Ulivi
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Hotel Masseria degli Ulivi
Ranked #3 of 24 hotels in Noto
4.5 of 5 stars 97 Reviews
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Rome
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20 reviews 20 reviews
Reviews in 18 cities Reviews in 18 cities
22 helpful votes 22 helpful votes
“Hotel has problems, and director lacks business sense”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 17 October 2010
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I took a group of 20 friends on a trip down the Tirrenian Coast and around Sicily.. This "agrpturismo" was recommended to me and reservations made by the person who did the reserving: a very helpful hotel director who knew the place personally. The first problem occurred when we arrived. Our group had started out to be 24, then 18 and finally 20. I had sent an email indicating we would need 4 Twins, 4 doubles, four singles. When we came there was pure caos. They had only three doubles and three twins, but, strangely, although they were missing a double ("matrimoniale") they wanted to put one of the twins in a double. In the end they used the doubles for the couples, and since they did not have enough twins, they gave us 7 singles instead of 5 (one was for the driver). I needed laundry service and had waited for the agriturismo on the theory it might be cheaper. Instead there was no laundry service. In a place oriented to families, it is unacceptable that there is no laundry service ("There used to be" does not cut it). Finally, there was no internet. The hotel claimed it had been out for a year and that they intend to sue Telecom. Maybe.
On the day of our departure, when I went to pay for the rooms, I found they were charging for the singles. i thought that was unfair because I had emailed the list, including names. The director was called. He said he had not received my email. I told him I could prove I sent it; he said he could prove he had not received it, though I am not sure how one does that. I suggested a compromise, but he refused. He said the roommates had preferred the singles, which was untrue. He said they could have changed the second night, which is absurd. In the end I calculated we were arguing about two singles and decided to let it go. As a big favor he gave me the driver's room free -- everyone else did without its being a favor -- but not his food. Everyone else gave both room and board. The director was foolish because I would think twice about returning to such a place, even though the grounds were very pretty.

  • Stayed October 2010
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 5 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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Oxford
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5 reviews 5 reviews
Reviews in 5 cities Reviews in 5 cities
7 helpful votes 7 helpful votes
“Attractive and very pleasant, good value,”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 September 2010
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We stayed at the Masseria for three days in mid September in one of their 5 bedroom apartments. The gardens and grounds are attractive, and the rooms clean and comfortable.
Breakfasts (included in the price) were very good with fresh pastries and croissants, cereals, and good coffee.
The pool isn't ideal for young children - a pretty infinity pool fringed by olive trees it has no fence and is a fairly short distance from the apartments/rooms. It also has no shallow end for children to stand/play in.
We didn't eat at the restaurant in the evening - ate at Il Falco in San Corrado di Fuori (great value and good quality pizzeria/restaurant - very busy on weekends), and Il Liberty in Noto (outstanding food and value - best meal we had in Sicily. via Cavour).
Google maps (and I suspect Sat navs) may not send you to the right place. Driving from Palazzolo Accreide follow the SS 287 past Villa Vela - just past the small village there is a turn off on the left signposted to the Masseria. From Noto - follow signs to Palazzolo (there are also quite a few brown signs to the Masseria). After San Corrado, the turn off to the Masseria (on the right) is between kilometre markers 17 and 16 - just after a turn off to Noto Antica.
No internet.

  • Stayed September 2010, travelled with family
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Cambridge, UK
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22 reviews 22 reviews
Reviews in 12 cities Reviews in 12 cities
52 helpful votes 52 helpful votes
“OK Stopping Place in Sicily”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 10 August 2010
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We stayed here as a base for seeing parts of south east Sicily by car. Its location from that standpoint is convenient, but it is also isolated and apart from walks there is not much to do locally. The only local restaurant we sampled was indifferent and with slack service. The hotel is built or possibly partially converted from an olive farm, with some buildings added. Many olive trees still grow in the gardens, especially around an exceptionally peaceful, well-kept open air infinity pool, with loungers that are not only comfortable but actually well-designed. The rooms are large, thoroughly clean and reasonably well-furnished. The restaurant was rather disappointing at first but a discussion with friendly staff resulted in a clear improvement. (That said, rural Sicily is not outstanding for food, compared to other parts of Italy.) The local red wines are acceptable; sometimes more than that. Breakfast on the terrace looking out over the olive groves and woods was a particular pleasure. Pleasant enough, all in all. 'Very Good' is pushing it, but 'Average' is a shade unkind.

  • Stayed June 2010, travelled with friends
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 5 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Berlin, Germany
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26 reviews 26 reviews
Reviews in 17 cities Reviews in 17 cities
13 helpful votes 13 helpful votes
“very quiet place near Noto”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 12 July 2010

The hotel is not easy to find. This was one of our quietest places in the Sicily. It was so nice to sleep without any noise around. The view from the window was just brilliant, real country side. They have a nice and big swimming pool. Unfortunately, they newer take the cleaning machine out of it and it makes a bit difficult to swim. The hotel restaurant was our main disappointment. They try to imitate high class restaurants with handmade delicious food. Honestly they failed. The food card looks very limited in choice and expensive. They do not serve fresh and basic Sicilian food. They try to make something more and we fail again and again. The cheese was not fresh, the roll with meat was just warmed-up frozen thing, etc. Anyway, the restaurant is pretty busy in the evening. There is no place to eat in the walking distance. At the reception we were recommended a nice place 5 km from the hotel and this was just brilliant typical Sicilian place. We took 2 pizza and spent evening with Rosso del Conto. That was amazing. They have a tennis court at the hotel, but nobody was looking after it for many years and it cannot be used. ;( The rest was just fine. Good place to sleep 2 days long. I would still recommend this place for a quite weekend. Ps: The hotel is not easy to find. Use navi. Ah, they have no internet at all.

  • Stayed June 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 5 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Belgium
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22 reviews 22 reviews
Reviews in 20 cities Reviews in 20 cities
21 helpful votes 21 helpful votes
“Particularly nice pool and restaurant”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 November 2009
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people found this review helpful

This may be advertised as an agriturismo, but forget any ideas of having a room on a working farm beside the animals. It is an attractive site with modern bedroom blocks built in Sicilian farmhouse style set in well manicured lawns around the original farmhouse. The lawns going down to the horizon swimming pool are dotted with olive trees, each one floodlit at night.

The hotel is in an isolated location, some 9 km outside Noto, just off the twisty road to Palazzolo. Driving there for the first time and in the dark, we wondered if we were ever going to arrive: maybe useful to note that coming from Noto the road to the hotel (which turns to dirt track before you get there) is off to the right just after a road to the left to Noto Antico, and just after kilometer marker 16.V. The location is on the wrong side of Noto if you want easy access to the undeveloped beaches which lie beyond the Vendicari nature reserve, but it is very quiet. Indeed, sitting on the terrace outside our room at night we were struck by how quiet it was – no sound of cicadas, cars, or planes overhead.

Our stay bridged the weekend marking the end of the main Italian holiday season at the end of August, and things were notably less busy the second week. The waiter whose job it was to take the coffee orders at breakfast and keep the buffet stocked up was clearly overloaded in the beginning, and things ran out, but this didn’t happen later and he had time to exchange a pleasant word with the guests.

We had a couple of very nice dinners of imaginative locally-influenced cuisine in the hotel’s restaurant, outdoors (it was 35°C during the day), overlooking the floodlit olives.

We had an issue the first night in room 15 with a hum from the air conditioning which kept us off our sleep, and we ended up turning the airco off and sleeping with the window open (onto the view, at that side of the room, of the hotel’s solar panels). Fortunately mosquitoes were not an issue. We were moved without hassle the next day to another room, with silent airco, but where opening a window would not have been an option as only doors gave out onto the outside world.

We have stayed in other similar places in this part of Sicily, all relatively plainly furnished and rather expensive compared with the more popular parts of Italy. This one definitely had the most attractive pool and best developed restaurant (perhaps because guests want to avoid the drive up the twisty road in the dark returning from the otherwise interesting restaurants in Noto or Ortigia). If you want something simpler, there is a very popular pizzeria Il Falco just off the road 3km towards Noto in San Corrado di Fuori.

This is a lovely place to stay, far from the tourist tramping grounds of Taormina and Cefalù, to see the baroque architecture of Noto, Ragusa, Mòdica and Ortigia, swim in the crystal clear sea, visit nature reserves, a small Roman villa, the Greek theatre at Palazzolo Acreide or the stately home at Donnafugata, and generally take in the atmosphere of this most southern part of Italy. But do it soon, the motorway from Syracuse to Ragusa is gradually taking shape, and will bring in lots more visitors!

  • Stayed September 2009, travelled as a couple
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Address: Contrada Porcari, 96017 Noto, Sicily, Italy
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