Hotel Villa Cimbrone

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

Il titolo di questa recensione scaturisce dal menu completo del ristorante il flauto di Plan le cui prime tre portate contengono tutte una quantità di zucchero. Scherzi a parte abbiamo cenato discretamente unica nota stonata il servizio sommelier che voleva propinarci una bottiglia andata della quale peraltro si era rotto il tappo durante l’estrazione. alla rimostranza che c’erano dei residui di sughero nel calice ci hanno proposto di cambiare il calice stesso è stato allora che ho preteso, come regola vuole, che cambiassero la bottiglia. Per quanto riguarda il dress-code, tanto richiesto anche nell’e-mail di prenotazione si segnala che invece sono ben accetti tipini in bermudino. La piscina è dotata di assurdi lettini in ferro che diventano roventi sotto il sole è quindi non ci puoi neanche poggiare le braccia. In quanto ai bambini che non sarebbero ammessi al di sotto dei sei anni abbiamo avuto la compagnia di bambini di 2 e 3 anni in piscina che facevano sembrare tutto un bel villaggio turistico. In quanto alla piscina stessa c’è da dire che è poco mantenuta e soprattutto il prato dove ci sono i tavoli per il pranzo in piscina non sono su un prato, ma su terra battuta! Per quanto concerne le camere sono vetuste e mal arredate e i bagni sono veramente assurdi. Non ce n’è la macchina del caffè né il bollitore. I servizi nel complesso sono scadenti. Il personale è super gentile e fanno del loro meglio. Buona la colazione anche se non sanno fare le uova alla Benedict! Al lounge bar nel pomeriggio, dove vorresti fare un aperitivo romantico, invece si può assistere agli avventori che fanno visita ai giardini che mangiano hamburger come se fossero da McDonald’s sminuendo quindi tutta la poesia di questo luogo incantato. Quanto tempo ancora potranno contare sulla sola meraviglia del posto? Un paradiso gestito malissimo ne fanno solo un business da luna Park mentre invece ci si aspetterebbe di soggiornare in un posto romantico e pieno di charme i presupposti ci sono tutti.

Views were great and gardens were lovely, but outside of this the hotel was not great. When we arrived we had to walk up about 15 minutes of stairs to reach the actual hotel entrance. The rooms had AC but were too small to unpack. The staff were not very welcoming and acted almost as if they did not want us there. While using the facilities we felt very rushed, especially when using the pool. The staff at the pool was constantly cleaning up to close down the place even during the hours of operation which felt as if they wanted us to leave and like we were an imposition. They also asked for our room number repeatedly in scenarios in which it was entirely unnecessary, making it seem even less like they wanted us there, and more like they didn’t believe we were guests. Finally, when it was time to leave we had kindly asked the workers at the front desk to have the porter service assist us with our bags. We even had a family member go down to confirm this request 45 minutes prior to our departure. Despite all this, the porter never showed up so we dealt with our baggage by ourselves. He finally showed up 15 minutes later resulting in a late departure. We recomend to visit the gardens, but not to stay overnight.