Hotel Calamidoro

Positiva, struttura ottima e tranquilla, posizione facile da poter raggiungere località turistiche da visitare.

Location meravigliosa, personale impeccabile!

We visited this hotel as part of a tour group recently. There are not tea or coffee making facilities in the room. The shower was dark, small and mouldy. The plug in the washbasin was broken and the toilet flush just kept running until you banged it. No matter which controller you used or how often you switched it off the television kept switching itself on even in the middle of the night in the end my husband unplugged it. There was no hot food for breakfast not even a toaster and no restaurant on site. To eat at night you must negotiate a dark drive to an American diner.

We booked to stay for 8 nights but had to leave early. I can’t praise reception staff enough - always professional, responsive and helpful. We had a room with a mezzanine bedroom - lovely but I hadn’t thought that our bedroom would be on another floor and have arthritis so it wasn’t ideal. We were moved to another room the next day while we were out. It was lovely. My suggestions for improvements would be 1. Charging €2.50 per person per swim to use the pool is overpriced and it was not a surprise that nobody used it during our stay. 2. Service at breakfast was hit and miss. A female member of staff and her male colleague were really smiley and helpful but the other female colleague appeared to see her job as an imposition getting in the way of her ability to flirt with contractors and resented being asked for anything. 3. Having experienced a number of your mattresses because of needing to move I’d suggest an audit and overhaul as half of them are past their best and frankly uncomfortable. As others have said you really need to have a hire car to stay at Calamidoro Hotel. As a base it was great and we enjoyed Florence, Volterra, SAN Gimignano, Lucca, Pisa and the excellent Italian train system. As a driver most fellow drivers are chilled out compared to stressed UK drivers so don’t be afraid to give it a go! This hotel could be more than it currently manages to be. It’s got the location but needs attention to housekeeping and waiting staff customer service standards. Take Piriton tabs with you - in Italy it’s not licensed for tablet form and tbh nothing is a better antihistamine (unless you are driving)! There are millions of small biting insects in Tuscany.

Beautiful hotel and very friendly staff Long way from Pisa in industrial area Restaurant was closed for restyling and nearest alternative a taxi ride away costing 40 to 50 euros

Stayed for a week here September 2019 having booked with Fleetway Travel. Told it was a relaxing place to stay which it certainly is. The staff are very helpful and attentive, rooms comfortable if a little dated, cleaned everyday, shower hot, breakfast good. However, the hotel is situated in a commercial area on a fast moving road, entry via a petrol station. There is no longer a restaurant on site, you have to go outside the gated entrance to find a couple of places to eat, an American burger bar or The Kings Angus steakhouse (very expensive, no menu offered or prices to view). Il Barrino cafe bar, next to a pharmacy, is good for an evening drink. A car is really a necessity to get anywhere, otherwise you are stuck here. Extra expenses incurred to go out by taxi then train to places nearby like Pisa or Lucca, this takes over an hour depending on train times. Lovely as Tuscany is, you would hope to be able to leave your hotel and wander round the local area to go to a for a drink or shops. You cannot do this here unless you want to walk along an extremely busy road without a proper footpath to the local supermarket or Lidl for 20 minutes! Not what we were expecting at all and we were both quite disappointed.

Excellent service, the staff was superb, very helpful and friendly. Location is very good as you can easily access Pisa, Lucca, Florence and Siena. We had really good time and will come back.

Het ligt prachtig en rustig. Het doet aan als een landgoed. Alles mooi verzorgd en onderhouden.

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Mysigt ställe inklusive rummet med bra wifi och bra pool. Man kan dessutom fördriva tiden med att nyttja deras golf range samt skjuta pilbåge