Hotel Villa Cimbrone

Obviously you can get there on foot and climbing not a few steps, but it is a pleasant walk taking a look here and there shops or to enjoy something good if not to have lunch in one of the local restaurants. We only visited the garden with the heavenly view overlooking the sea, and even if October is not really the right time, you are still enchanted by so much beauty, being a garden the best time, for those arriving from afar, it is spring

We wanted to get a nice lunch in this place that is so beautiful. What a disappointment !!! 3cm of local wine glass. For 38 Euros per unit ( I would not day glass as it was almost empty, proposed to you with a smile.... what an expensive one. Tasteless Risotto with one poor broiled raw scampi. 30 Euro per plate. Stop the shame. Do not enter this place.

First - we were never told about the parking situation. After a brutal drive to the hotel from Paestum we pulled up to where Google Maps told us to drive to. NO HOTEL THERE AND NO SIGN. So we call and they tell us to go park in someplace that is like a town away?!? HUH?? We do not understand this and end up driving thru the tunnel into the town square (FOR 100 EURO FINE). Both of these things are done by hundreds of tourists a year trying to find their way to Villa Jibrone - per numerous conversations after the fact and in reading the reviews online. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT VILLA JIBRONE! We ended up parking at the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium which was a LIFE SAVER! THEY WERE GREAT THERE and it reminds me to write a wonderful review about them. Thank god for them as we handed them our keys and our luggage completely blindly and walked away in dire need of a cocktail! Second - there was no empathy at the front desk at all for the $hyt show created. They were so over dealing with their guests and that could clearly be seen. There were high maintenance Americans dealing with a wedding that were stressing them out and they had the program to a science. Go sit down below with a welcome prosecco and wait for us to call you. They were just cold as ice and completely clueless as to how the front desk should be run at a high end boutique hotel. We went down to the pool on our own and ordered lunch and the pool worker was so much better than the front desk staff - he clued us in to getting changed and enjoying the pool while we waited. The food there was good and the atmosphere was chill and nice down by the pool. Third - the room was just so below average. The hotel itself is exceptionally nice but the room we got was just crap. I have stayed in hundreds of amazing hotels and we had just been on Amalfi at a wonderful hotel and the room was as disappointing as the whole parking situation. Fourth - the hotel is part hotel part sightseeing destination for the general public. That was our next surprise - as we sat and had lunch any idiot that had paid the admission to the park would walk in and take pictures of the pool and the hotel. So you have that to look forward to as you lie out at the pool - like a monkey in the zoo. Fifth - departure is as stressful as arrival as we needed to catch a flight out early in the morning. But I have to leave you, my reader there, as I have vented long enough. If you have gotten to this point and have read this much you will perhaps find out on your own the departure procedure (especially if it is early am!) GOOD LUCK - Or as they say in Italian - buona fortuna

The title of this review comes from the restaurant's full menu the Plan flute whose first three courses all contain a quantity of sugar. Seriously we had dinner discreetly only out of tune note the Sommelier Service who wanted to offer us a bottle gone of which, however, had broken the cork during the extraction. to the complaint that there were cork residues in the glass we were offered to change the glass itself was then that I demanded, as a rule, that they change the bottle. As for the dress-code, much requested in the booking email, it is noted that types in Bermuda are welcome instead. The pool is equipped with absurd iron sunbeds that become red hot under the sun is so you can not even rest your arms on it. As for children who would not be allowed under six we had the company of 2 and 3 year olds in the pool who made everything look like a nice holiday resort. As for the pool itself, it is poorly maintained and especially the lawn where there are tables for lunch in the pool are not on a lawn, but on clay! As for the rooms are old-fashioned and poorly furnished and the bathrooms are really absurd. There is no coffee machine or kettle. The facilities overall are poor. The staff is super nice and they do their best. Good breakfast even if they do not know how to make eggs Benedict! At the lounge bar in the afternoon, where you would like to have a romantic aperitif, instead you can witness patrons visiting the gardens eating hamburgers as if they were at McDonald’s thus diminishing all the poetry of this enchanted place. How much longer can they count on the wonder of the place alone? A paradise run badly make it just a business from amusement park while instead you would expect to stay in a romantic place full of charm the conditions are all there.