Capovaticano Resort Thalasso and Spa

Super luxury hotel, I spent 3 days with my family and we've been treated gorgeously. Stuff is attentive and professional. Rooms are super confortable. The swimmingpool is elegant and amazing for both kids and adults. Food is excellent and varied. Super good for adults and families.

We stayed for one week in September 2021 and had two double rooms. One room got upgraded from garden to sea view which was very nice. The whole resort is very beautiful, clean and modern. The rooms were big and had huge bathrooms, they also were always very clean. The beach was beautiful along with the clear blue water. The swimming pool is big and filled with salt water but showers are available as well. The hotel is in a remote location, there are lunch restaurants on the beach but we had booked breakfast and dinner included because the hotel can only be left by car (in my opinion) because it’s in a bay and evening restaurants are on top of the “cliff”. Food and drinks which aren’t included are quite expensive compared to other hotels. For breakfast there is a buffet with everything you could wish for except veggies and different cheeses. For dinner there is a 3 or 4 course Menu. In the beginning it was tricky for us to understand how dinner “works” because we didn’t get an explanation on what was included in the price. They bring you a card where you can choose out of 3 dishes for 3 courses and desert. What they didn’t tell us was that desert isn’t included in the price so you have to pay it extra except if you choose desert instead of the third course. The portions are very small but if you eat 3 courses they’re filling. If you don’t have dinner included you have to expect to pay 18-26 Euro per course per person. The food overall is really really good but the dinner service was very bad. The waiters were ignoring us and after telling them what we wanted to order for each course we had to wait a whole hour until we got the first course. They don’t speak English and also didn’t understand when I tried to speak Italian to them either so we got the wrong food sometimes but we didn’t have to pay extra. There was one waiter who even spoke German, but he wasn’t allowed to take our order because he didn’t have one of the iPads where they put in your order. Only 2-3 waiters have access to the iPads and they run around like headless chickens not knowing who has ordered and who hasn’t. I didn’t understand the organisation of the restaurant at all and even the lady at the reception said she knows that it’s really bad so I don’t understand why they don’t organise that better. If you wanna do some sight seeing i recommend using a rental car cause it’s hard to leave the hotel by foot and there was only a bus on top of the cliff, but I don’t know how often it comes. Overall I would recommend the hotel if you have your own car there and if you don’t choose to have dinner there. P.S. another important thing before you leave the hotel is to check the receipts because we got charged for drinks and some diving gear that we didn’t order

Our room was large overlooking the ocean. Unfortunately they don't offer rooms with tubs. The indoor pool was pleasant to swim in as well as the outdoor one. The outdoor restaurant was delightful to have lunch at. However the Gourmet restaurant was awful. Not for us. I suggest the regular restaurant. The hotel is located only about 20 minutes drive from Tropea. We enjoyed our stay and recommend the hotel highly.