Rocca Di Castagnoli

We booked this at the last minute after another booking turned out to be awful (not booked through booking.com). Rocca Di Castagnoli saved our vacation! The property, restaurant, our apartment, the wine tasting, location, views and the outstanding staff exceeded our expectations in every way possible. A special mention for Daniella who went above and beyond to make every aspect of our stay perfect! Highly recommend this property and hope we can return one day. The meals we ate at the restaurant were incredible, it was a perfect location for exploring Tuscany!

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Beautiful location! Rooms were clean and spacious! Restaurant on property was top notch! Our 30 day Europe trip this was one of our top 3 places!

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The property was in a beautiful location with sweeping landscape views. Our room was large and spacious and the reception was very friendly. The onsite restaurant was also amazing.

Nothing, it was great!

The staff were mostly fantastic, speaking better English than our Italian. The views are stunning and the location is rural and very quiet. The restaurant on-site is lovely - but very very pricey. The waiting staff are wonderful and can't do enough for you. To look at, it's probably one of the prettiest hotels I've stayed in. Which made our experience all the more disappointing...

There's nothing to do!! - The restaurant opens only briefly for breakfast 8 - 10am, then for lunch 12 - 2pm, then for dinner, but is closed all other times. - The pool is lovely but closes strictly at 7:30pm despite the sun still being out. - It's not in walking distance of anything at all, the closest village is a short drive away but there's very little there, and after that you're looking at a 30 min drive to the next interesting places. - there is no shop, no cafe, no bar near by. - One of the major disappointments for us was there's nowhere outside just sit and enjoy the views in the evenings. There is a grassy area next to the pool that I think may be what is referred to as a 'terrace' on the listing but there are no tables or chairs. Having nowhere to relax before or after a meal with your fellow guests - the only place to be is in your room. This could be easily rectified by simply putting some tables and chairs out on the grass. Even a couple of benches. There is a sign in the room saying you're not supposed to eat and drink your own food and beverages in your room - which we found strange - but since we couldn't afford to eat in the restaurant every night we ended up breaking the rules and having cold picnics while watching Netflix. We spoke to other guests and they were saying exactly the same. There were a couple of families with small children and they were furious at the lack of facilities. We don't even have children and we were the same, after the first two nights it was a bit boring and wishing we'd booked somewhere else. There is obviously so much history in the buildings but there is no information to read about it anywhere, nothing to celebrate its heritage, even a printed out PDF would have been nice. I'm sure lots of this is explained on a wine tasting but it would be nice to be able to read about it in your own time too.