We lived the dolce vita!

Italy | Sep 25 - Oct 4, 2024

Beautiful hotel, perfect location & great staff!! LOVED the rooms!!! Also loved that minibar was free. THANK YOU!!

Great staff, beautiful rooms!! Wonderful location too Just wish their bar was open beyond 830pm (That's early for a hotel bar!)

Extremely enchanting hotel in Chianti. Large, spacious rooms. The staff was quite nice -- the kitchen/bar/restaurant staff Chef Luca and the other two gentlemen - the Italian person and the Moroccan man were wonderful too (sorry forgot their names). The ladies at breakfast were also great. Their heating/AC is on one system so unfortunately they turned the AC on to accommodate guests that were cold and wanted heat. This was a little uncomfortable for me but they provided a fan when I asked them why heat was on. The place was always clean and pleasant. A little activity would be nice -- perhaps a happy hour special with treats for guests or something else to give it a little oomph as it was very quiet with not a lot of activity so if you did not have things arranged with a car there was not much to do at this hotel (it was too cold for swimming). Amazing place!

This was Paulo! He was wonderful! So sweet and patient!! We tried to book him another day but his company then cancelled on us after we booked it. Too bad.

This was a fun experience. We loved Chef Luca! The one thing we would change is that after the class, the food was taken away, later cooked and then served to us at the restaurant. It would be nice to eat right after and have a special place to sit after to enjoy. Or perhaps maybe eat the antipasti first while the sauce and pasta are being cooked for us. We waited quite a bit to eat after as the restaurant was busy. I would probably take away the panzanella recipe for next time. We all used our hands and then when the food was taken away, we got it back later and it was served to us...it felt a little odd.

We love Marta! She was smart, charismatic, patient and felt like a natural part of our group in fact! We recommend her again and again. She knew so much about wine too and we appreciated her!

Torciano Winery is so fun & amazing! I would recommend and also go there again. Letizia was very engaging through our cave dinner and so kind! Michela on the staff was also such a sweetheart and accommodating. We LOVED it!! The food was also delicious --- the truffle pasta and the LASAGNA!! WOW

This was a great tour. The city was still quite full so it was hard to maneuver through everything but our guide did a good job,

Great tour with Chef Darren. He accommodated the vegetarians which was nice. He was informative. He did walk very fast. He was great though. Hope to see him again there!