Just had a mixed stay in this hotel. It is a family hotel, mostly catering to German tourists (secondarily Italian, and a few French, Russian, Spanish, etc). Mostly families with small kids and a few elderly people. Positives: - Lovely setting by a very calm gulf - Nice grounds (garden, pool, etc) - Nice views - Lovely reception staff. We had a problem with the first room and they kindly and quickly changed it for us. - Rustic and slightly old fashioned but perfectly adequate rooms with nice balconies - Free shuttle to pretty Rena Bianca beach nearby - Comfortable beds Negatives: - Often crowded. Can be hard to get a seat at the swimming pool - Restaurant really poor by Italian standards. All sounds nice on the menu, but you get potatoes that have not even been drained, overcooked pasta, etc. Moreover, the restaurant is really gloomy, you eat inside in dark rooms in the Sardinian summer. Not great. - Restaurant staff not very pleasant. They seemed terrorised of a fairly inflexible maitre d'. We asked if we could eat ”outside” on the covered terrace instead of inside but told no. Then got to chat with another couple who apparently sat outside and wanted inside! Same dates as us, same half board, they were told no by the maitre d'h. How to be inflexible when you could have made 4 people happy! Oh and there were free, unreserved tables both inside and out! - The hotel's own ”beach” is not really a beach and the water is quite dirty with strange foam floating and plastic on the sand - VERY loud music all evenings from about 7 to about midnight. It starts with kids stuff in German. Always the same every evening. Then some not very good music/karaoke. I'm sure some people like this, but the sounds system is so bad you can't escape it. It is really loud and makes the walls bang! Don't expect to do anything during the animation time till midnight - not sleep, not speak, not work, not read, not watch tv, not cuddle with your partner, nothing. The music is really invasive. - Breakfast very poor. Cheap ingredients, fake watery juice, canned fruit or apples/oranges in the middle of summer. Nothing Sardinian. - If you don't have a car, there is nothing around. - Definitely a 3* at best, nothing 4* about it. Would we come again? Hard to say. Rooms and views are nice and prices correct for the area. Maybe we would come back if we had a car, no half board, and planned to ”escape” to visit/eat out every evening from 7 to midnight! But in the conditions we did this time, probably not.
