Guest User
August 17, 2023
This is an exceptionally beautiful and well- run hotel with amazing staff. We stayed there for two weeks while attending a course in Siena and got to know the hotel very well and we thoroughly recommend it. The hotel is a beautiful villa set on a tree lined street overlooking the walls of the Fortezza Medicea. It’s opposite a shady park with a fountain and there are several restaurants/cafés nearby, along with a bank, chemist, gelateria and supermarket. It’s a short walk to Piazza san Domenico and the many restaurants and shops on the streets that lead into the centre of Siena (about a 5 minute walk from the piazza). The hotel is extremely comfortable with well furnished, airy rooms, good beds, well designed bathrooms with good, powerful showers. A lot of thought has gone into the setting of the air conditioning which is set just right. The hotel is spotlessly clean and our rooms were thoroughly cleaned every day. The hotel is quiet. The other guests were mainly couples or small family groups and the rooms are very well soundproofed. There is a pretty garden with lots of seating. It gets the shade in the morning so it’s nice to sit outside to have breakfast. The breakfast is very good – a mix of specially cooked savoury dishes and pastries, great home -made cakes along with cheeses, fruits and salad, olives, good bread and croissant, great coffee and fruit juices. The spa at the sister hotel in Rapolano is amazing – 6 natural spa pools of varying temperatures, the coolest is an infinity pool overlooking Tuscan hills. The staff at the hotel are exceptional. They are highly efficient and professional and very kind, thoughtful and knowledgeable. They gave the hotel a really good feel and made it a very enjoyable, relaxing place to stay. They really added to the experience of our time in Siena. We would definitely want to book this hotel as our first choice of place to stay if we return to Siena again.