Villa with swimming pool and garden- San Feliciano, Trasimeno lake

From 16th-30th June 2018 When you arrive you have your own parking gate with its own key which is very safe. The house and the veranda are great and overlooking lake Trasimeno. The veranda has plenty of space to sit down and have breakfast, lunch or dinner. The three bedrooms and bathrooms were very clean and very well looked after. The decoration in the house has a nice female touch to it with soft colours and nice funiture. The kitchen was new and well equipped with kitchen tools. We cooked several nice italian dishes on it. The only two thing that could be improved there is to have a larger wooden board to slice your bread instead instead of a small cheese board. The other one is the water cooker which you can turn on bit it does not automatically switch off when hot. The swimming pool had a brand new shower and shower bassin. It also has a deep end (with jumping board) and a lower end and there are plenty of chairs to relax on. The garden is well kept but you have to like chickens, geese and dogs to pass through your part of the garden. We think it is great if there are kidds around. You can ask the keeper of the house for fresh eggs in the morning. Places to visit like Perugia, Assisi, Orvieto and Spello on the Umbrian side and Arrezo and Cortona on the Tuscany side are in small istance from the house. San Feliciano is very small and has some restaurants of which we found "Da Settimio" the best and also restaurant "Santino" some 3 km past Monte de Lago, All in all we had a lovely stay there and we definitely want to come back in a few years.

We stayed at this house for a month and it was a great base for day trips. We were met by Massimo and his lovely dogs Bria and Gia. There is a cat in there as well with chickens but we didn't get to interact with them. We each had our own lovely large bedrooms with comfortable beds and pillows. Plus there were enough blankets to go around as it got really cool at night. There is a large pool but unfortunately we didn't get to use it as it was too cool, late in the season. But we did get to use the chaise loungers a couple of days and of course the lovely covered porch. As others have stated the kitchen is really small you can't fit two people in it at the same time. There is no oven but a toaster oven. The fridge is small as well so you need to shop more often if you eat in like we did quite a few times. If you eat out you have to wait until 8pm and most times you have to make a reservation. That is too late for us to eat then go to bed so we just made our own. There is a TV but I didn't find any English channels so I just hooked up my computer to the TV and used Netflix. The boys played pool some nights which they found most enjoyable. There is a washer, but it take at least 1 1/2 hours to run a cycle and you have to hang up your clothes outside. We used hangers and hung them from the curtain rods outside worked great. I had brought some clothes pegs with me which was a good idea as there were some but not a lot. There is a BBQ but not a gas one, so we purchased charcoal and lighter fluid. If you haven't used charcoal in a long time like us, don't forget it takes a long time to get the coals hot enough to use. We found 2 grocery stores in Magione that we used the most and that was the Coop and Conad. There is a little market store in San Feliciano but they don't stock much. The wine and beer are really cheap everything else is quite expensive compared to home. But you must expect that when you travel. We did some trips from the train station in Magione which is really easy to use. We went to Florence and Venice on the train as we figured it would be hard to find parking. Plus Venice would be an 8 1/2 hour drive and on the train it was only 5 with changes. I had purchased the tickets before I left home but you don't have to. The only negative thing I would say about the property is that it could be a little cleaner and I think it could use some new living room furniture. Over all great place to stay.

We had a lovely holiday in San Feliciano. The house had plenty of room for all of us (2 adults and 4 children). The pool and garden were wonderful and the view over the lake was really special. There are lots of lovely villages around the lake and we particularly enjoyed visiting Castiglione del Lago as well as the music festival in San Sevino. There was a bit of a problem with lake flies, but this was due to the unusually hot weather and only lasted a few days. Highly recommended!

We had a nice vacation during our stay with perfect weather. We had booked this house for the second time already as we like the privacy of this home, the garden and pool being not visible from the outside. If you can cope with some chicken or cats running around this location is perfect for relaxing. With a family of 4 people there is plenty of room (3 bedrooms), table tennis and pool billard. Also WLAN available, we did not miss anything there. Bernd and family, from Germany