Il Canto del Sole

The location and the pool were amazing!

What a beautiful location with good facilities like a swimming pool, a great garden with great views etc. A good base to visit the area (Crete Chinese). Warm treatment from Luciano and Laura. Good breakfast and a nice quiet room. We enjoyed it very much. Thanks for the extra hours in the garden.

Silent relaxed space and friendly to adults and kids. 25 minutes from siena

This is in a lovely rural location with views of the countryside. The owners have a dog, keep chickens and geese and a vegetable garden. They use some of this produce in the breakfasts. Their tomatoes were superb and they evidently took pride in the quality of the selection of home made cakes, biscuits and some savoury dishes at breakfast. Laura was very accommodating in making me pots of tea. We were going to a wedding and she offered to make us lunch. Anticipating sandwiches we were delighted by a fantastic selection of local bread, meats, cheese and tomatoes. Although our room had aircon and the weather was in the 30s, as the room was airy with high ceilings we didn’t need it, which was ideal. With the geese nearby it felt safe to leave ground floor windows open at night. The room was spacious, simple and rustically furnished but very clean, with enough storage, a small fridge and pretty quilted bedspreads. Our shower room was compact but spotlessly clean with plenty of towels, which were freely replaced. Our room was in a single storey building adjacent to the main house. It had a hallway shared with the room next door, with a kettle and doors onto a shaded seating area. This arrangement would be convenient if you were going as part of a group. The property is on a hiking route from Rome to Canterbury (Via Francigena). There were lots of keen hikers who really appreciated that each room had a clothes airer so they could rinse and dry items of clothing in their own seating area. Thankfully no sweaty hiking for me - just some delicate swimwear to be refreshed by the sunlight! Il Canto Del Sole has a generous sized pool, which is salt water and very refreshing. There were plenty of comfortable loungers with side tables and an open, spacious well maintained garden. Much of the time I had it to myself and it was gloriously peaceful.

We were woken up at 7 am by the noisy cleaning ladies shouting to each other across the courtyard directly outside our window. They carried on over the sound of the hoovers as they cleaned the room next door. There was only one pillow on each bed. We would have found it useful to have cups and spoons as well as the kettle for making tea and coffee, but we asked for some and it was no problem.