Tenuta Centoporte

Absolutely loved our stay, the staff really made it a lovely experience they were all so nice, smiley and helpful! Made it a special experience. We had food in the hotel one night and it was delicious! The pool area is really clean with lots of beds! Can’t really complain about anything - we would come back!

Given it was very hot while there so we leaned on the hotels services and amenities to salvage our time there more then normally. There wasn’t much they had to offer. No room service is a huge deal breaker for me especially when the mini bar consisted of an empty mini fridge - hungry after the resteraunt closes? Craving a cold Coke at night watching a movie? Out of luck. The resteraunt was nice looking, workers were kind and efficient, the menu reflected the region (I’ll never try horse meat though). The issue was that the air conditioning in the resteraunt was poor - almost the same as sitting outside, with nights at 90 degrees and humid it made eating in it unpleasant. The pool was the single amenity - small by American standards but normal sized by European ones - in the low 100’s we never got in under the direct Sun. During lunch the only food was the pool area and for some weird reason you could choose from their full menu (which wasn’t much to begin with) if you sat poolside in the sweltering heat - if you wanted to eat and take it any where else you were reduced to a tiny little menu of basically a hard sandwich? The rooms were spacious, but had an austerity about them- small tv on a huge blank white wall. And 1 of my pet peeves “1 tiny trash can in the bathroom and no where else”, What is up with hotels always putting in tiny cans and just 1 in the bathroom? It’s weird .Maids were wonderful and I felt bad for them working in that heat, I tipped strong. The surrounding towns like beachside Otranto was boring, nothing outstanding about it at all - the Resteraunt's there as well had pitiful air conditioning and little value historically, artistically or entertainment wise to offer, Mainly just just ancient dead olive trees that died of some kind of infection recently 😔