Eco Resort Dei Siriti

Nice hotel. Large, well equipped and clean rooms. Friendly staff. Family orientated. Entertainment team working hard. Lots of activities. Nice view. All Italian focussed, little English spoken. Sufficient varied breakfast (didn’t have lunch or diner at hotel). Private beach and bar is nice too. Nicely located to explore surroundings (car needed). One big minor thing for me is the nearly constant loud music and use of microphone by the entertainment team. Noisy from 10-00hrs. Almost non-stop.

Initial impression is that of four stars. The personnel has been helpful and friendly so far. The location is around 5km from the beach, but the swimming pool looks good so far. 12h after I'm afraid by the end of the week there will be zero stars left. The pool was good indeed. The water wasn't very hot nor cold. I think it was rather soothing on the very high temperatures here (35oC). The problem yesterday was the microphone guy. Someone told him to talk, and he didnt stop, ever, with stupid commentary and even singing out of tune over all the songs. I don't know if the gentleman was drunk or high, which is fine honestly, as long as someone takes away the microphone. Also the show last night included a couple of theater jokes. Maybe I am uncultured and I missed the point of all the demonstrations. I will reflect. Breakfast was nothing spectacular, aside the normal italian-trying-to-be-international. But it was delicious. Personally I dislike the coffee dispensers. You can't get good coffee if you press a button for it. So I'm prejudiced against that. I understand in the catering business is probably the ultimate line of technology and service. Will give a go at the "navetta service to the beach". Update: July 19, 2018 The lifeguards on the swimming pool, proved to be polite, useful and knowledgeable. On the other hand the staff of the reception was the complete opposite. I don't know what's their problem, but today twice I asked for their help and twice they've been obnoxious, rude and almost laughing at me. Maybe they should take a page from the lifeguards' book. Update: July 20, 2018 This is absolutely NOT a four stars restaurant. Yesterday we were served old french fries. How can you fail to server decent french fries when the next McDonald's can outshine you. The food on last night's buffet was a recycling of leftovers from lunch and old patatine fritte. Today for the first time I tried the cornetti. All of them were covered in powdered sugar (which I dislike) but I tried anyway. The pastries were half cooked- the pasta inside was actually still raw. I'm quite disappointed that they can't offer a decent pastry. Additionally I refuse to believe that in a four stars restaurant I get paper towels and plastic cups and just one glass. From the dispenser coffee and soft drinks to the lack of extra glasses during any meal- the list can go on and on.

Worst place we've ever stayed in. Rooms are clean and spacious, but that's it. There are a lot of rooms approx 300, but around the pool only about 40 sunbeds, so if you're not there early, you'll be sitting on the floor, because even the chairs at the pool bar are always full due to the lack of sunbeds. They do have a private beach at about 3 miles from the resort, they provide you with a shuttle service, but the organisation is bad and don't get me started on the road to get to the resort, very long and narrow for miles and miles, never again. Breakfast was not enough for all the guests and the staff was very rude, including the manager, plus the manager would sit and have his breakfast instead of making sure everything is running smooth, to top it all, he'd use a table of 4 all to himself while guests were waiting standing up with their breakfast in their hands for tables to be freed, bonkers and disrespectful. After experiencing the breakfast, we never used their restaurant for tea, instead we dined out since we've traveled by car, luckily, because we found some great places to eat out, but again, they are miles away. So all in all, avoid at all costs. P. S. The only nice staff, ware the boy's at the beach bar.